Dash video shows two women in bikinis being subjected to body cavity searches on the side of a Texas highway after they were stopped returning from a weekend at the beach.
Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety and the sheriff of Brazoria County, Texas, where the stop occurred. Their lawyer alleges that the search was meant to humiliate them and was conducted without probable cause.
The female officer who performed the invasive search, which included sticking a finger in the women's vaginas, is accused of using the same pair of gloves to search both women. The entire 40-minute traffic stop was caught on the trooper's dashboard camera.
Attorney Allie R. Booker told MailOnline her client's case is startling similar to a July 2012 case in Dallas in which DPS trooper Kelly Helleson aggressively searched Angel Dobbs and her niece, Ashley Dobbs - including giving them a body cavity search and not changing gloves between searching the two women.
Trooper Turner has been suspended as part of an internal investigation by the Department of Public Safety
He then makes the two women sand on the side of a busy highway in their swimsuits while he calls for backup.
'One of them has got her zipper open on her pants of her daisy dukes shorts - whatever they are,' the trooper says on the radio.
Two more troopers show up - including Jennie Bui.
Bui, as trooper Turner explains, 'is going to search you.'
'I ain't, because I ain't about to get up-close and personal with your woman areas...she is going to put some gloves on,' he says.
Despite numerous pleas from the two women not to perform a body cavity search, But ignores them.
Both women can be seen with pained looks on their faces as the trooper probes their genitals.
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