Pregnant Woman Says Forced Onto Stomach

[trumad]

A pregnant woman said she was handcuffed by transit police and forced onto her stomach during an arrest that began with her talking too loudly on her cell phone.

Sakinah Aaron, 23, said she feared her unborn baby would be harmed when the officer forced her to the ground and put his knee in her back at a bus stop earlier this month. A doctor later said her five-month-old fetus was not harmed.

"I'm thinking between the ground and his knee, my water is going to break and I'm going to have a miscarriage or something," she said of the Sept. 9 incident.

Deputy Chief Timothy Gronau said Monday that Officer George Saoutis followed police procedure after Aaron refused to stop cursing loudly during a cell phone conversation and became abusive and uncooperative.

Aaron said the officer approached her as she walked to catch a bus, telling her to keep her voice down. She twice tried to break away, but he caught her arm, then placed her face down, handcuffed her, and charged her with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040928_526.html

[Tsiyu]

1. Where are the Unborn Baby Police when U need em?

Oh, maybe she's not WHITE?

[Warpy]

2. There's gonna be a special place in hell for that cop

By five months, it's pretty obvious if somebody's pregnant.

[WLKjr]

5. No, this is okay

when someone else kills it for you, just not if you do it on your own terms.

wierd isn't it

[Shoeempress]

3. Since when is talking on the phone and or cursing a crime. Was the

First Amendment repealed lats night while I slept.

[Eric J in MN]

4. We need to end "zero tolerance" policing (nt)

nt

[Romulus]

6. why does the WMATA only pick on black people?

The "french fry" girl - black

The "candy bar lady" - black

The "pregnant cell phone talker" - black


Anybody else see a pattern here? :shrug:

And I rode the Metro every day, and see plenty of young, female, blonde riders with their lattes and coffee mugs, and Metro LEO's who look right at them seem not to pay much attention to what the young, female, blonde riders are holding.