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The city of San Antonio reached a settlement agreement with a woman who had her tampon pulled out on a public street by a police officer according to Kens 5. The incident took place in August 2016, when Natalie D. Simms was sitting on a curb on a side-street talking on the phone waiting for her boyfriend.

Simms drove to the location and parked her vehicle across the street from where she was sitting according to the lawsuit. While waiting outside, San Antonio officers arrived at the scene and said they believed Simms “might possess illegal drugs.”

Officers would then ask Simms if they could search her car, Simms consented to know that she didn’t have anything illegal. Simms would later be detained and claims she wasn’t able to leave until an officer would allow her to.

Officers requested a female officer to come to the scene to search Simms while her car was being searched.

Detective Mara Wilson came to the scene and began to search for Simms. The search was captured by a dashcam in Wilson’s car.

Wilson conducted a vaginal cavity search in public according to the lawsuit. The pair’s interaction is below according to the news station.

Wilson: Do you have anything on you? Simms: No, ma’am, nothing. Wilson: Okay. So what do we have on here? What is this? Simms: It’s a little pocket. These are my workout clothes.

While Wilson searched Simms, she told her to “lean back a little bit” before asking her, “Do you have anything down here before I reach down here?”

Simms: You’re gonna reach in my — Wilson: I’m not gonna reach. I’m just gonna look, but you keep, you keep flinching and everything. Simms: I’m not — yeah, because I’m on my cycle.

The suit claims Wilson “pulled open Natalie’s pants and underwear and used a flashlight to look around the area” and then, “reach into Natalie’s pants and pull the string attached to a tampon, which was present in Natalie’s vaginal cavity.”

Wilson: Uh-huh. Are you wearing a tampon, too? Simms: Yes. Wilson: Okay. I just want to make sure that’s what it is. Is that a tampon? Simms: Come on. Yes. Wilson: Huh? Is that a tampon? Simms: It’s full of blood, right? Why would you do that?

Wilson didn’t face consequences for the incident, aside from a notation in her file stating the incident “‘serve as a reference in the event there [was] a re-occurrence of [that] type of action by the officer.”

Wilson would later retire from the police department in May 2017.

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