Pregnant mother hit with stun gun, claims excessive force [View all]

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ahhh, 21st century Journalism. Starting the story with a negative about the citizen before you get into the meat of the story. Yeah---16 kids is crazy, but the cops tazed an 8 month Pregnant woman.

Also: it sure looks like the cops entered the house without being invited.

A woman who is eight-months pregnant with her sixteenth child is claiming police brutality after she says Tampa officers used a stun gun on her.

Tampa police arrested Angel Adams, 39, this week and charged her with battery on a law enforcement officer after a scuffle when police came to her home to talk to one of her sons. She says the stun gun endangered her life -- and the life of her unborn child.

Adams, 39, first made headlines two years ago when she was evicted from her apartment, then moved into a small motel room with 12 of her 15 children. Her story angered many when she angrily demanded, "Somebody needs to pay for all of this."

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ampa police have a different account of what happened.

The female officer "was at the door, went in to talk to the kid, and at that point, he physically punched the officer, so at that point now we have a struggle," Tampa police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said. "While [the male officer] was struggling with that kid, the pregnant suspect and her daughter were fighting with [the female] officer."

Davis said Adams and her daughter took the female officer out of the house, leaving the male officer alone in the home with four people and at risk.
http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/may/05/10/tampa-police-use-stun-gun-on-woman-who-is-8-months-ar-400233/