The Baton Rouge Police Department is under scrutiny as the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into allegations that officers assaulted detainees in an obscure warehouse known as the 'brave cave.\u200b'
"Lets be crystal clear, there is no room for misconduct or unethical behavior in our department," Chief Murphy Paul said at a news conference Friday."No one is above the law." drug suspects at a recently shuttered narcotics processing center. The FBI said experienced prosecutors and agents are"reviewing allegations that members of the department may have abused their authority.
The lawsuit alleges that officers pulled over Brown while she was driving with her husband near her Baton Rouge neighborhood in a black Dodge Charger in June. Police officers ordered the couple out of the car and searched the vehicle, finding pills in a container, court documents said. Brown said the pills were prescription and she was in"lawful possession" of the medication.
Police held Brown for two hours, the lawsuit reads, during which she was told to strip, and after an invasive search,"she was released from the facility without being charged with a crime." Paul said Friday's finding are from an attempted strip search in September 2020, when two officers from the unit allegedly hit a suspect and shocked him with their stun guns. The episode was captured by body-worn cameras that the officers didn't know were turned on.
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