8-months pregnant woman tased by Springfield, Illinois cop who followed procedure.

One thing for sure, many cops today have no business being in law enforcement. It almost seems like the government has started a new reality show contest looking for the most brutal law enforcement people it can find and there seems to be a lot of stiff competition. Matter of fact, the government has done just that and this is how they will staff the new police state. How do you think Hitler got his Gestapo?

CONTESTANTS: FORGET ALL YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT.

THERE IS ONLY ONE RULE HERE.

KILL THEM ALL AND LET GOD SORT THEM OUT.

We all know that some cops, the ones that pay no attention to the "to protect and to serve" motto are the same ones who love to abuse the power of their gun and their badge, always manage to cover their asses by rewriting the facts of any case that involves police brutality. But sometimes there is some contradictory evidence such as a cell-phone video that the cops can't deny. So it comes down to the local police chief picking the appropriate well rehearsed statement that officer so and so was following standard procedure or the officer was justified to use deadly force because he felt threatened. Can standard operating procedure that seems to follow the "arrest everyone and let the courts sort them out" logic justify excessive force against a woman who is 8-months pregnant? 8-months pregnant and not carrying a weapon?  And lets not forget, the 8-months pregnant woman was the one who called the cops in the first place. This is what happened in Springfield, Illinois on April 1, 2013 and it wasn't an April's Fools Day joke. Maybe the cop involved had just spent some time shooting at the new targets they got from Homeland Security.

WICS-TV ABC affiliate Channel 20 original news story and video from April 1, 2013  http://www.wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_10333.shtml

Pregnant Woman Tased by Police

A woman who is eight months pregnant was tased by Springfield Police after she reported a car accident in the parking lot of Best Buy on Saturday. The woman in question is 29-year-old Lucinda White. Her boyfriend, 31-year-old Frederic Thomas was also tased and taken to jail for assaulting a police officer. Was it excessive force -- tasing the pregnant woman -- or did Springfield Police act accordingly?

We found out about the incident from Paul Newton who works here at ABC Newschannel 20. He happened to be there, and watched it unfold on Saturday.

"They told her get down on the ground face down, and she's trying to plead with them I can't get on the ground, I'm pregnant. I can't do that and they told her once again. And she-- she's just trying to plead with them and then right away they hit her with the taser," Newton said.

He explains that from his perspective Thomas appeared to get more aggressive when officers threatened to tase his pregnant girlfriend.

"I thought she was trying to comply with them, but I-- it sounds like she was worrying about her pregnancy and she didn't want to get face down on the ground," Newton said.

This next TV station that covered the story has the video captured by an onlooker with a cell phone camera.

FOX 55 Illinois / WRSP-TV Springfield, Illinois  http://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/Pregnant-Woman-Tased-By-Police-201247611.html

New Details On Police Tasering Incident: Pregnant Woman Tased By Police
Springfield Leaders React To Police Tasing Arrests

Story Created: Apr 3, 2013 at 9:38 AM CDT
Story Updated: Apr 3, 2013 at 9:51 AM CDT

A woman who is eight months pregnant was tased by Springfield Police after she reported a car accident in the parking lot of Best Buy on Saturday. The woman in question is 29-year-old Lucinda White. Her boyfriend, 31-year-old Frederic Thomas was also tased and taken to jail for assaulting a police officer. Was it excessive force -- tasing the pregnant woman -- or did Springfield Police act accordingly?

 And a major newspaper in New York City covered it as well.

NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/video-pregnant-woman-tasered-cops-article-1.1308421

VIDEO: Pregnant woman tasered by cops after calling them for help in parking lot fender bender incident 

Cell phone footage shows Lucinda White, 29, being wrestled to the ground of a Best Buy parking lot in Springfield, Ill. on Saturday.

By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, April 5, 2013, 7:39 AM

Shocking video shows the moment cops tasered and forced a heavily pregnant woman to the ground after she'd called them for help in a fender bender incident.

Cell phone footage shows Lucinda White, 29, being wrestled to the ground of a Best Buy parking lot in Springfield, Ill. on Saturday.

She had dialed 911 after she and boyfriend Frederic Thomas, 31, started arguing with another man they accused of hitting her car.

A police report states the pair were "actively fighting" with an officer when reinforcements arrived — and that agents repeatedly told Thomas to stop yelling and cursing.

When the duo did not calm down, cops claim White was pulling on the officer.

He then ordered her to the ground, but she screamed out she was pregnant — which led him to use the stun gun on her thigh.