COPS TASE PREGNANT WOMAN OVER PARKING SPOT
“THEY HURT MY BABY” COPS TASE PREGNANT WOMAN OVER PARKING SPOT
Tiffany Rent’s distress was plain to see early Wednesday. As the
30-year-old left a court hearing, she said she was sitting in her car
late last night at Walgreen’s waiting for her boyfriend Joseph Hobbs.
That’s when she said Chicago Police ticketed her for parking in a spot
for people with disabilities. “When I came out they were writing her a
ticket,” Hobbs said. “And she couldn’t understand why she was getting a
ticket. She ripped the ticket and got back into the car.
“I got scared and I closed the door,” Rent said. “I didn’t hit him, I
didn’t harm him. Anything. He tasered me through the window.” Rent says
when Hobbs’ tried to intervene he was arrested and suffered a
dislocated his elbow.
Both were charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and simple assault. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said it is sometimes hard to know if a woman is pregnant.
Wednesday afternoon, Rent underwent further medical checks at the UIC
Medical Center. “This is excessive,” said Rent’s attorney Keenan J.
Saulter. “There is never a situation where an officer should stick his
arm into a vehicle someone is sitting there and taser a woman. She is no
threat. There’s absolutely no cause for that, and a pregnant woman at
that.”
“I ran to the other side of the car, with my hands up, ‘Stop, stop stop, she’s pregnant, don’t hurt her,’” John Muldoon said he is representing another pregnant woman who was stun-gunned by Chicago Police while in custody May 9.
He says his client, Charday Wilkins, was three months pregnant and lost her baby. “Maybe there should be some new policies on physical violence towards women,” Muldoon said.
Walgreens says it has video of the incident which has been turned over to police. The investigation is being taken over by the independent police review agency because a firearm was used.
Both were charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and simple assault. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said it is sometimes hard to know if a woman is pregnant.
“I ran to the other side of the car, with my hands up, ‘Stop, stop stop, she’s pregnant, don’t hurt her,’” John Muldoon said he is representing another pregnant woman who was stun-gunned by Chicago Police while in custody May 9.
He says his client, Charday Wilkins, was three months pregnant and lost her baby. “Maybe there should be some new policies on physical violence towards women,” Muldoon said.
Walgreens says it has video of the incident which has been turned over to police. The investigation is being taken over by the independent police review agency because a firearm was used.
I challenge anyone to show me a legal justification for the evil actions of the rogue cops.
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