Ruling OK's Tasering Pregnant Woman Three Times

[Mari333]

Seven-months-pregnant Malaika Brooks suffered repeated 50,000 volt shocks for refusing to sign a speeding ticket, and a federal court of appeals ruled it justified.








http://www.alternet.org/rights/146273/ruling_ok%27s_tasering_pregnant_woman_three_times

[stray cat]

1. Should whether someone is pregnant make a difference? Its either justified or not

[cdsilv]

2. I wonder what kind of damage the fetus suffered....

...probably will take years to tell.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Yep

[unblock]

4. four shalt thou not taser, neither taser thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.

five is right out!

[awoke_in_2003]

7. It had to be done...

LOOK AT THE BONES :rofl:

[Initech]

5. Oh wont somebody please think of the children????

[Locrian]

6. for fucks sake....

What kind of prick cop chooses B?!!!!



You are a police officer on traffic patrol and you pull over an irate driver who refuses to admit she was doing 32 mph in a 20-mph zone. She won't sign the speeding ticket, not even when you call for backup. Also, she is pregnant. What do you do?

a) Finish writing the ticket, making note of the fact that the driver refused to sign, and send her on her way, perhaps admonishing her in the process.

b) Grab the keys from the ignition, tase her three times, force her out of her car, and arrest her.

[cdsilv]

8. The reason I mention damage to the fetus is ....

...my then wife had a car accident when 2-3 mos. pregnant with our youngest daughter. This caused undiagnosed placental trauma (it was a moderate fender-bender that totalled an '82 nissan sentra. The result of that was a deaf daughter with learning disabilities.

Who knows what being repeatedly tased will do to a developing fetus? I smell a serious lawsuit against Taser if the kid ends up harmed by this. Well deserved.