Video Shows Police Beating Pregnant Handcuffed Woman

[TalkingDog]

http://www.foxsanantonio.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/vid_11031.shtml

Did San Antonio Police Officers use excessive force on a pregnant woman? That's what the Department is looking into tonight, after a Fox San Antonio viewer shot video of three officers holding down a pregnant woman. One of those officers hits her repeatedly.

It was the sound of a woman screaming that caught Lorenzo Rios's attention. "All I heard was her yelling to get off me, I heard her yell I'm pregnant," said Rios. So, he started to record this video with his cell phone. "She was already cuffed and they started to beat her, which I don't think was right. It was pretty messed up. She was already down and pretty small compared to the other officers."

[d_r]

1. wow

The part that amazes me is the "we have the officer's report, we don't need to see the video."

If the officer wanted to hit her 8 times, that's how many times he needed to hit her.


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"Size makes no difference, it's the amount of fight in the person," said Chief William McManus, San Antonio Police. Fox San Antonio gave the police department a copy of the video, but the Chief says he didn't see it. When we offered to show him, he said he didn't need to see it. "What's on the video is in my understanding is what the officer reported." But, we found inconsistencies. We counted eight hits in the video, but the police report only says there were four or five. "Whether it was four or five or whether it was 8, it's really irrelevant if the officer felt he needed to strike her 8 times in order to get her to comply and put handcuffs on, then that's how many times he struck her," said McManus.

[BlueToTheBone]

2. Another reason to

stay out of Texas.