«Breaking News» Washington D.C. to settle lawsuit with black man subjected to repeated anal probes during search

The city of Washington, D.C., is settling a lawsuit with a black man who accused a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department of repeatedly probing his anal cavity during a weapons search.

The American Civil Liberties Union D.C. announced last week that Washington admits no wrongdoing and will pay an undisclosed amount to M.B. Cottingham.  

The ACLU and 40-year-old Cottingham sued police in July over the September 2017 search by Officer Sean Lojacono of the MPD, who denies inappropriately touching Cottingham. Cottingham claims he was targeted because he is black.

M.B. Cottingham, 39, was stopped and frisked by Metropolitan Police Department Officer Sean Lojacono on September 27 in Bellevue

Cottingham, an ice cream vendor, had been discussing his birthday plans on that day with his friends when two police cars arrived on the scene, according to the ACLU. 

'The thought that kept running across my mind is "they gonna kill you," so I thought about teddy bears being up under the tree or becoming a hashtag,' Cottingham states in the ACLU video promoting his case over images of Black Lives Matter memorials and protests. 

'Like many African-American men in the District, Mr. Cottingham has endured intrusive police stops-and-frisks on a regular basis for years, and his experience is, we believe, emblematic of a problematic police culture in the District in which residents are too often disrespected and viewed as potential suspects rather than as community members and neighbors,' the ACLU stated about the case.

Scene video shows Lojacono's repeatedly searching Cottingham's groin area prompting the man to flinch and request him to stop. 

'Stop fingering me though, bruh,' Cottingham can be heard saying in the footage. 

'I'm outside your pants, bro,' the officer says to Cottingham before telling the man to relax. 

'Don't sit here and finger my a— like that, like I'm not a man,' the aggrieved ice cream vendor responded.

The two go back and forth during the encounter until Cottingham is uncuffed. No weapons were found, and no one was arrested or charged.  

In video of the search, Lojacono can be seen putting his fingers deep into the crevices made by Cottingham's sweatpants

'Stop fingering me though, bruh,' Cottingham can be heard telling the officer, before asserting that Lojacono is still 'fingering' him in the 'a**'

'The most important thing to me is that Officer Lojacono can't do this to anyone else,' said Cottingham in the ACLU statement. 'I filed this lawsuit because I want policing in D.C. to change.' 

He had on him a legal amount of recreational marijuana but allowed Officer Lojacono to pat him down in an effort to avoid potential conflict.   

'It looked like it was an inappropriate touching by the officer,' MPD Chief Peter Newsham said at a D.C. Council hearing after seeing the video, according to the ACLU.

Cottingham experienced severe physical discomfort following the probe. He also suffered from anxiety, depression and fears being in public, since the incident occurred (seen in an ACLU video)

Scott Michelman, ACLU-DC Senior Staff Attorney, who represented Cottingham, implies that the city is attempting to hide Lajacono's disciplinary history with the timing of the settlement

'The fact that the settlement was reached on the eve of the District's deadline to disclose information about Officer Lojacono's extensive disciplinary history suggests MPD officials were worried what the documents would show regarding how long they ignored or tolerated his problematic behavior,' said Scott Michelman, Legal Co-Director, ACLU-DC. 

The lawsuit accused Lojacono of violating Cottingham's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches. 

The MPD announced in September that Lojacono will be fired, but he is fighting the planned termination and remains on administrative leave.

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