Shocking footage was released today showing an 8-months pregnant woman being tased by cops in an Illinois Best Buy parking lot. The woman, 29-year-old Lucinda White, and her boyfriend, 31-year-old Frederic Thomas, called police for help after White got into a fender bender, but the response was NOT what she expected.
Illinois police claimed that White was "actively fighting" with an officer and was not obeying their orders when she pulled on one of them and got tased. However, White tells a different story and says that she was tased after she told them she was pregnant!
The New York Daily News reports that White and Thomas called police after a fender bender with another man whom they were arguing with. Cell phone camera footage which was taken by another driver which showed White being wrestled to the ground while trying to separate Thomas from an officer.
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When police told White to get on her knees, she told them that she was pregnant over and over, but one of the officers inexplicably still went ahead and used the stun gun on her thigh. Unbelievable!
The couple was accused of resisting arrest and aggravated battery and are set to appear in court in May. Thomas was released on a $350 bond and White received none, but both were released from jail.
How crazy is that?! These police officers need to have their title revoked because no one should treat a pregnant woman that way. Roughhousing her and then tasing her could have caused harm to the unborn baby–or worse! All this woman was doing was calling police for help and the police officer treated her like a savage! We should be able to trust police officers, not fear them. I hope she and her boyfriend win her case in court and that these officers get punished for that they did.
Watch the shocking footage below–but be warned, it's quite unsettling:
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