Law enforcement in Eugene, OR have stated they will forcibly draw blood on anyone refusing a breathalyzer this coming July 4th weekend.
Of course, drunk driving is a very serious matter. But do you agree that law enforcement can take such physical action against someone not yet convicted of a crime when they can still detain you by giving less intrusive tests, just as they have done for years?
I SEE SOME LAW SUITS COMMING
Wouldn’t that be considered assault & battery ?
There is so much wrong with this. Has Law Enforcement become lazy. No I do not agree with it. At least I had to get the individual to volunteer to agree, if not no blood unless they where unable to. That is the only way. WOW has $#%&!@* changed.
WRONG, police state at its best. cops the new BAD guys
Yet another privacy violation…
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a liberty. Part of citizenship in a free society is the expectation that one’s personal affairs and physical person are inviolable so long as one remains within the law. A robust concept of freedom includes the freedom from constant and intrusive government surveillance of one’s life. From this perspective, Fourth Amendment violations are objectionable for the simple fact that the government is doing something it has no licence to do–that is, invading the privacy of a law-abiding citizen by monitoring her daily activities and laying hands on her person without any evidence of wrongdoing.
Privacy is also instrumental in nature. This aspect of the right highlights the pernicious effects, rather than the inherent illegitimacy, of intrusive, suspicionless surveillance. For example, encroachments on individual privacy undermine democratic institutions by chilling free speech. When citizens–especially those espousing unpopular viewpoints–are aware that the intimate details of their personal lives are pervasively monitored by government, or even that they could be singled out for discriminatory treatment by government officials as a result of their First Amendment expressive activities, they are less likely to freely express their dissident views.”
― John W. Whitehead, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State
This is yet another violation personal rights. Cops cannot “forcibly draw blood”. Cops do not have the right to require this. If someone refuses a breathalyzer, they can arrest them for refusing but they CANNOT forcibly draw blood and if they do they open themselves up to charges or assault.
Sounds like assault to me. Premeditated.
@Dave Baron it is not a privacy violation. Oregon has an implied consent law, you sign it when you sign on the line for you license at the DMV. so yes i do agree to it. when one breaks the law, one must pay to price
The law mans getting out of control