Tasers

[Benny2guns]

If's and and's lol. Tasers do not get used in the course of an armed robbery. There is no argument that will convince me that tasering pregnant women is in any way a thing we need to do let alone pass a law to support. It is simply barbaric. We have cops tasering people for traffic violations.
High Mr sideways this is the sheriff calling. We stopped your wife today for speeding and she resisted arrest. We had to taser her and as a result she had a miscarriage. Sorry about that sir but it is against the law to speed and your pregnant wife was very threatening to us.
Don't make me laugh. The above sort of thing will happen and a law to allow it is simply an end run to support the law from being sued and going to prison.

I wouldn't taser a woman that's pregnant. Unless a taser was the only weapon I had to defend myself.

a)How do you know it will happen??

b)Not many people (not even many policemen) would taser a pregnant woman at all. Especially for speeding. So what are you on about?

If it was not expected to happen then why was it addressed here?
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that the Seattle Police Department’s use of a Taser on a pregnant woman, three times, to effect her arrest after she was stopped for a traffic violation, was not unconstitutionally excessive force.

A divided panel of the Court of Appeals concluded that Sergeant Steven L. Daman and officers Donald M. Jones and Juan M. Ornelas were entitled to qualified immunity from Malaika Brooks’ claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

In November 2004, Brooks said, she was seven months pregnant when Ornelas stopped her for speeding as she was driving her son to school. The ticket states that she was traveling at 32 miles per hour in a 20 mile per hour school zone.

According to Brooks’ version of events, Ornelas and Jones both asked her to sign a Notice of Infraction, but she refused, insisting that she had not been speeding.

Ornelas then called Daman. When he arrived, he asked Brooks to sign the notice and then instructed the officers to “[b]ook her,” when she again refused.

At this point, Brooks was in her car with the ignition running and her door shut and refused to exit her vehicle. Jones then showed Brooks his Taser, explaining that it would hurt “extremely bad” if applied and demonstrated it for her.
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http://www.metnews.com/articles/2010/broo032910.htm