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Pro-Choice Proto-Fascism
From the Seattle Post Intelligencer:
When deputies pulled her over, Valinda Otis told them she was pregnant and needed to use the bathroom.
When they wouldn’t let her go to a nearby restroom, she walked toward it, anyway, she said, and was quickly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car. She screamed and kicked the car door.
That’s when a deputy with the King County Sheriff’s Office pulled out a Taser, pressed it against her thigh and jolted her with 50,000 volts of electricity.
“It was a sharp pain,” said Otis, 24, who was three months pregnant at the time of the September incident. “I kept asking, ‘Is it gonna mess up my baby?’”
To recap:
A spineless, dickless, lunatic cop tasered a pregnant woman, who was already restrained in the back of a police car, for trying to go and pee.
Was she being irrational to scream and kick? Yes. Do pregnant women suffer a flood of mood-altering hormones when in fear for their baby’s life? You’d better believe it.
Pro-Life or not, surely this disgusts any rational human being.
To repeat my common theme this week: no one is safe from police brutality. Not upper-middle class white people, not college students, not the elderly, not women, not children, and apparently, not even the unborn.
Perhaps N.W.A. said it best:
Have you bought your gun yet?
Hungry for more?
This one is my favorite:
“In southwestern Washington, Olga Rybak was stunned in the back and legs 12 times when she didn’t sign an animal-control citation. The Washougal police sergeant who used the Taser was demoted to patrol officer. “It was a poor choice in handling the situation with a Taser rather than other means,” said Sgt. Brad Chicks, Washougal’s interim police chief. Rybak’s attorney, Tom Foley, said the Russian woman spoke limited English and wanted to talk with her husband before signing a citation to impound her dog. He repeatedly stunned her in front of her young children, leaving welts all over her body, Foley said.”