Posted on 09/28/2004 9:20:38 AM PDT by harrycarey
Pregnant Woman Arrested For Talking Too Loud On Cell Phone
POSTED: 9:33 am EDT September 28, 2004
WHEATON, Md. -- 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.
You're not allowed to talk loudly on a public street? Where is this, Singapore?
Bet ya a dollar she is black or mexican. (Or a fat white woman). Around here they all scream on the phone at the top of their lungs, whoever is around them be dammed.
I am a college student in DC on an internship. I saw this on the news last night, and was pretty mortified.
Apparently, she was swearing into the phone or something, but the WMATA is displeased, to say the least.
This happened inside the Washington DC metro system.
I heard about this yesterday, but this is the first time I actually read HOW it happened. The headline should read,
"Woman Arrested for Disturbing Peace" or "Woman Arrested for
Cursing in Public".
Thank God she wasn't eating a candy bar on the Metro.
She would have been shot.
Lovely.
Or if talking too loudly in a movie theater, she would have been maced.
She was not just talking loud... she was cursing a blue streak!!! You don't find that in the article!
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.
The Police were just doing their jobs, following standard procedure. There is no record of any policeman ever violating a citizen.
/sarcasm
Aaron refused to stop cursing loudly during a cell phone conversation and became abusive and uncooperative.
" I didn't like it when he compared our troops to Jen-jis Khan.
I don't like his stance on jun control.
And I think John Kerry is jonna jet me killed."
Does this mean no more rap music anywhere in public? Yippee! :-)
"Bet ya a dollar she is black or mexican. (Or a fat white woman). "
Bet ya five dollars that your statement is irrelevant.
It's "damned".
What a lovely post. Thank you so much.
*sarcasm off*
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