[Chiapet]

"Tasering an eight month pregnant woman is way over the line!"

Yeah, but using your pregnancy to try to shield yourself from a speeding ticket and subsequent arrest is way over the line too. The mother should be the first person to think about the safety of her unborn child.

[cyborg]

32 mph is hardly endangering her fetus.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Yeah, but using your pregnancy to try to shield yourself from a speeding ticket and subsequent arrest is way over the line too. The mother should be the first person to think about the safety of her unborn child."

Sorry, but she did no such thing. All she did was refuse to sign the ticket--note the section where she wasn't REFUSING the ticke---just refusing to sign it. All the rest was on the cops heads--showing HUGE bad judement by both the officer and his supervisor. I hope she sues the hell out of them and that she gets a huge settlement.

[marvlus]

Yeah, but using your pregnancy to try to shield yourself from a speeding ticket and subsequent arrest is way over the line too. The mother should be the first person to think about the safety of her unborn child.

I don't disagree that the woman should have signed the ticket and gone her merry way, but to be tasered for a non violent act to an eight month pregnant woman - my guess is the officer wanted to see what it looked like to taser a pregnant woman (the officer was really, really stupid, and should be dismissed from the force).