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.
But I strongly beleive too that Police have one of the toughest jobs in the world. They have to work with the absolute dregs of society day in, day out, 24/7/365.
Thank goodness I'm not a Police Officer because I'd probably use about a clip of ammo a day just out of frustration of dealing with derelicts all the time. I'd probably leave body counts in my wake that would make General Westmoreland proud.
She used the term "fetus" because she was already thinking "lawsuit".
I'm with you, the minute I found out I was pregnant I used the term "baby". My baby, to be exact. A pregnant woman using the term fetus to describe her baby is more than creepy.