EU Court Rules Forced Reguritation Of Cocaine Was Illegal

I'm sure every American patriot will be glad to hear that the European Court of Human Rights is doing a great job at hindering law enforcement and getting drug dealers out of jail. Reuters reports:

Germany must pay damages and costs to a Sierra Leone citizen living in Cologne who was forced by police to regurgitate a bag of cocaine, according to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday.

The court, based in Strasbourg, said that Abu Bakah Jalloh, who was born in 1965, had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment and had not been given a fair trial. Germany must pay around 16,000 euros ($20,380), it said.

Jalloh was arrested in October 1993 after he was spotted selling drugs. No illegal substances were found on him and he was taken to a nearby hospital after the prosecutor ordered he be given an emetic.

Four police officers held him down while a doctor inserted a tube through his nose and administered a salt solution and syrup which yielded a bag containing 0.2182 grams of cocaine.

Putting aside the fact that the man had been seen selling drugs and many criminals have used the "swallow the stash" method to escape prosecution before, it should also be noted that it is very dangerous to swallow a baggy of cocaine. The rapper ODB died when a bag of drugs he had swallowed burst in his stomach. One wonders how big a settlement this lowlife drug dealer's family would have gotten had they sued the police department had the man been injured by the swallowed drugs?

However, the court succeeded in setting the drug dealer free:

The court also ruled that the drugs had been the decisive evidence in Jalloh's trial, and allowing their use had "infringed his right not to incriminate himself and therefore rendered his trial as a whole unfair."

This story serves as yet another morale boosters for us conservative who feel America is becoming dangerously liberal. At least we can still say to ourselves at least we don't live in Europe!