I wrote about this incident when it happened because of the malicious use of tasers, but this article discusses it in the context of "internal security checkpoints" and the growing civil disobedience against it:
During a routine trip from San Diego to Phoenix in 2009,
Pastor Steven Anderson was stopped at an internal immigration checkpoint
about 70 miles from the Mexican border. A stern-looking Border Patrol
agent asked Anderson to provide proof of citizenship and requested
permission to search his car.
The persistent pastor declined both, citing his Fourth Amendment
protection against unreasonable searches and his Fifth Amendment right
against self-incrimination. He then asked to be allowed to go on his
way. The request was denied.
After a period of dithering, agents announced that a police dog had
alerted to potential contraband in the vehicle. They instructed Anderson
to pull over into a secondary inspection area. The pastor repeatedly
refused, at which point a Border Patrol agent and a state police officer
simultaneously broke both windows of his car and shot the pastor with
Tasers from each side, delivering lengthy and repeated shocks while
Anderson repeatedly screamed in agony.
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