Pregnant Woman Tasered By Cops After Illegally Parking
A pregnant woman was reportedly tasered by police in Illinois after she briefly parked illegally in a handicapped space.
Tiffany Rent, 30, says that she only intended to stop in the spot for a minute to console her young daughter, and was not actually parking in the space. But police prevented her from moving her vehicle out of the space, and then began to write a ticket for $200.
Rent, who is eight months pregnant, admits that she became angry and argued with police about the ticket. Her sister, Sharita Rent, explains what happened in the series events that led to her pregnant sister getting shocked with a stun gun:
“She pulled up in a handicapped space. The police came behind her, and she said they blocked her in. She asked them, were they writing her a ticket, and they told her yes.”
Rent continues:
“She tried to explain to them what happened, as far as her little getting out of the car, and her trying to calm her down and console her, and the guy gave her a ticket for $200. She ripped the ticket up, tore it in half, and threw it on the ground.”
While it’s never advisable to argue with or become agitated with police, police should also not be using tasers on anyone just because they’re being obnoxious- which, while not illegal, is also not posing any threat. Rent explains that she was frightened, and then that police mocked her at the station:
“I got scared, and closed the door. I didn’t hit him. I didn’t mean to harm him, or anything. He Tasered me through the window.”
The pregnant taser victim says that at the hospital, police seemed to find the incident amusing:
“They were laughing. They said … I know she’s pregnant. Then one of the other officers said I deserve it. Another officer said, ‘Go get Jesse Jackson,’” she said. “They were all laughing, like it was so funny.”
The jurisdiction’s Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the pregnant taser victim’s complaint of excessive force.
Tags : pregnant woman tasered, pregnant woman tasered chicago, taser, tiffany rent
Posted: June 7, 2012
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Jun 7, 2012
This cop should be fired after getting his hydrocephalic ass kicked. There is such a thing as the 1st Amendment and her rights were violated big time! I hope she sues the Chicago police and the city of Chicago and wins! She should get every penny those bastards have and if they have any dreams, she should get those too! Stupid Neaderthals!
Jun 8, 2012
I think the cop should be tasered.
Jun 9, 2012
This makes me so mad that every time I look at it I wish I had been there with my stun gun which produces several times the voltage of a TASER. When I got through with that stupid redneck bastard he would have had NO gun, NO TASER and and he wouldn't have been able to remember his frickkin' NAME for about ten minutes!
Jun 9, 2012
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Jun 9, 2012
There are a few things missing from this story. 1. Her boyfriend was in the store when the cop pulled up so she obviously was in the handicapped spot for more than "a minute" So she is lying in the above statements. 2. She put the car in gear and tried to back out with the cop car still blocking her. A car is a deadly weapon at that point. 3. She was told she was being arrested for littering BEFORE she got back in the car.
So, let's look at this situation and how it could have been prevented. First, Miss Rent could have parked in a regular parking place and this would have prevented the situation from happening at all. Secondly, she could have accepted the ticket understanding that it is NOT okay to park in a handicapped spot even "for just a minute." Third she could have NOT tried to drive of endangering not only her other children in the car but the officer standing next to her car and all the other people in the lot.
Miss Rent is 100% to blame for what happened to her.
Jun 13, 2012
YES she was, But be assured This POS will Cost TAXPAYERS a LOT of money as this goes on. The worst part is She is Most likely an ENTITLEMENT sucke and Pays NO Taxes. By the way, was her license Valid? did She have Auto Insurance?
Jul 16, 2012
Under General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984, entry into force 26 June 1987, in accordance with article 27 The United Nations now classifies TASERS as torture devices. Just thought you guys might like to know any cop can now torture you for any reason he chooses. Ain't it lovely to live in the good ole' USA?
Aug 19, 2012
I think the cops involved should be placed handcuffed in chairs in the middle of the road while two us army S.H.E.M.B (single high energy microwave beam) vehicules with microwave beams focused their beams on them for 8 minuites, I don't think those officers will tase anyone again in their lifetime, that is if the beams don't turn them into human bacon.
Aug 19, 2012
as for the pregnant, she should sue the entire police department for their assets, when she wins, she can sell off all their cruisers and computers and radio equiptment on ebay,
Aug 19, 2012
some cops not all of them, but some of them are just plain FUCKUPS and their going to answer to God for their actions they should change the slogan on their cruisers from "protect and serve" to "discriminate and abuse".
Aug 20, 2012
It doesn't make any difference. The most danger she presented to anyone was a POSSIBLE minor fenderbender with the cop car. The cops should still not permitted to use a torture device on ANYONE much less a pregnant woman. And what I said still stands had I been there I would have stunned the damn stormtrooper until he couldn't remember his name and I would have kicked a couple of his ribs in just for good measure! Under General Assembly resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984, entry into force 26 June 1987, in accordance with article 27 The United Nations now classifies TASERS as torture devices! END OF DISCUSSION!
Aug 20, 2012
you are so right