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The Harris County District Attorney's office did not return calls from Reason, but county prosecutor Natasha Sinclair told the Houston TV station KRIV that 'no one in this office stands by the search the way it happened,' but she also said the officers' 'bad judgement' might not rise to the level of criminal offense. Harris County prosecutors dropped the charges against Corley in August 2015 and issued a statement calling the search 'offensive and shocking.' Police initially said Corley consented to the search, but they also charged her with resisting arrest and with possession of marijuana. He says he plans to release dash-cam video of the traffic stop to the media in the hopes of generating enough public outcry to force the county to reopen the case with a new prosecutor.Ĭorley and Cammack appeared on CNN last night to tell their side of the story to host Don Lemon. 'These officers did commit a crime, and now it appears they are not being held accountable for their actions,' says Cammack, who wants an independent prosecutor assigned to the case. Two of the officers who conducted the search, William Strong and Ronaldine Pierre, were indicted in June 2016 by a Harris County grand jury on charges of official oppression, but those charges were dropped last week. It appears to confirm Corley's side of the story, showing officers putting her in handcuffs, tossing her to the ground, removing her pants, and spending several long minutes searching her body.

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The full dash-cam video was released to the Houston Chronicle and can be viewed here. You can't pull someone over, think you might find something, and do that to them.' 'They put their fingers inside her vagina. 'It is undoubted that they sexually assaulted her,' Cammack says. Sam Cammack, an attorney representing Corley in a multi-million-dollar civil rights lawsuit against the county, calls the search 'rape by cop.'

A third officer stood nearby holding a flashlight. Corley claims that fingers repeatedly probed her vagina and that the officers ignored her protests. For the next 11 minutes, dash cam video of the incident shows, she was held down by two officers while being searched. When Corley refused to remove her clothes in the dimly lit parking lot where she was being detained, one of the officers threw her to the ground, pushed her partially underneath her own car, and yanked Corley's pants down to her ankles. That was enough, they apparently felt, to justify a full-body cavity search. Charnesia Corley was a 21-year-old college student with no criminal record when two cops from the Harris County Sheriff's Office stopped her in June 2015 for running a red light.Īfter searching her car, police claimed to have found.