I'm slowly reading through the thread and I think there's plenty of blame to go around here. The pregnant woman was nuts not to sign the ticket or get out of the car when told to. I have 5 kids and I can't imagine getting into a confrontation with ANYONE while I was pregnant. It wouldn't even have occured to me to do something that stupid. That said, the cop was also wrong, tasered a pregnant woman?? Good grief, what are they hiring, Jethro Bodines?
I do think the slow speed in school zones is extremely important. Kids just don't pay attention to what they are doing, especially at the end of the school day and they are excited about going home.
I don't agree with the tazering of a pregnant woman either. What was his other options? Sitting there till the cows come home? I don't know what I would have done in his place. Maybe pull her fingers off the steering wheel one by one till they had her free of it. She would probably be fighting them if it got to that point.
His was told my his commander to arrest her. You and I would just sign the ticket and be on our merry way and argue it in traffic court if we thought we were right. She brought the officers actions upon herself and is now crying foul. She should have obeyed the school zone speed limit, and thought of her baby first, which she called her unborn fetus. I recoil that an 8th month pregnant woman would use that term concerning her baby.