Newly released body camera footage shows a New Jersey State Police officer shoving his hands into a man's pants and grabbing his anus and genitals -- all because the man smelled like marijuana.
Local news station NJ 101 reports that New Jersey State Police pulled over driver Jack Levine for allegedly tailgating another driver last March. After Levine pulled over, the officers said they could detect the smell of marijuana on him.
They proceeded to search his car and his pockets, but did not find any pot. An officer then opened up the man's pants and put his hands up his anal cavity and then grabbed his genitals in an apparent search for marijuana. In the video, the man can be seen protesting that the police do not have the right to do this to him just because they smelled pot.
After multiple searches, police determined that he was not in possession of marijuana and sent him off with a ticket for tailgating.
However, Levine has now filed a legal complaint against the officers, whom he believes violated his rights with an unwarranted intimate search.
"It was the most humiliating experience I've ever been through, also due to the fact people were driving by very slowley (sic), watching him with his hand down my pants," Levine argues in his motion.
Watch the video below.
