Ripping Up A Parking Ticket In Front Of Police May Get You Tased, Even If You’re Pregnant

By June 7, 2012
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If you’re upset with the parking ticket you’ve just received, it’s rarely a good idea to rip it up. It’s certainly a bad idea to rip that ticket up in front of the police officer who just wrote it. Ask the pregnant Chicago woman who says police used a stun gun on her after she tore up her citation.

Police ticketed the woman, who is only a few weeks away from giving birth, for allegedly parking in a handicap spot outside a Walgreens.

The woman claims she had merely pulled into the spot to briefly console her young daughter and was upset when the police took the opportunity to issue the violation.

“The police came behind her, and she said they blocked her in,” the woman’s sister tells CBS Chicago. “She asked them, were they writing her a ticket, and they told her yes… She tried to explain to them what happened, as far as her little girl 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.”

The police report claims the woman not only ripped up the ticket but threw it in the officer’s face before attempting to drive away.

She tells a different version to CBS Chicago: “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 woman was taken to the hospital and claims that cops made fun of her while she was being treated.

“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 recalls. “They were all laughing, like it was so funny.”

Regarding the use of a stun gun on a pregnant woman, a police department rep says, “you can’t always tell if somebody’s pregnant. You want to use it where you’re overcoming an assault, or preventing escape.”

In addition to the parking ticket, the woman has been charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and simple assault. Her boyfriend was also charged with resisting arrest and simple assault.

CBS reports that the soon-to-be-born baby appeared unharmed.

Meanwhile, the city’s Independent Police Review Authority is looking into the woman’s complaint of excessive force.

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  1. Press1forDialTone says:
    June 7, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    A taser is an (allegedly) non-fatal, non-injuring, restraint/behavior control WEAPON.
    The officer involved (who, based on the Jesse Jackson remark, is very likely white)
    who made the decision and fired the weapon should be fired and banned from
    street-level police work for at least 6 months and receive intensive training in the
    correct use of a taser. After consulting both a gynecologist and and obstetrician,
    they -both- said there is absolutely no way to determine if the baby is unharmed.
    The ob said it is like that the baby’s brain was affected and the baby may have had
    a petit mal seizure during the incident the damage from which will only be determined
    after birth and testing. This lady needs to get a majorly good lawyer and go after these
    thugs.

    • Moniker Preferred says:
      June 8, 2012 at 9:35 am

      “The officer involved (who, based on the Jesse Jackson remark, is very likely white)…”

      Racist comment.

  2. T. Bone says:
    June 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    She looks like she is having 3 section 8 kids. Just another ghetto lady that thinks the laws don’t apply to her. We see this all the time in Chicago…………. as for Jesse Jackson and his son they are both worthless jackasses.

  3. BustedFlush says:
    June 7, 2012 at 10:14 pm

    She rips a ticket; you pull a tazer! That’s the Chicago way!

  4. JonBoy470 says:
    June 8, 2012 at 1:17 am

    I call Shenanigans. Idiot cop is an idiot… Tasering a pregnant lady is a recipe for FAIL. All this officer has bought himself and his department is having to defend the inevitable lawsuit when this lady (admittedly no prize herself) lawyers up with some ambulance chaser who starts papering Chicagoland with summonses.

    Parking in a handicap spot without a permit is a douchbag move, but hardly a major (or even minor) public safety threat. Ticket the driver. She rips up the ticket? FIne, whatever… Ticket her for littering. She ripped up the tickets, which means she won’t have paid the fine or showed up at the court date. Then a $200 ticket becomes a $600 ticket, a hold on her car registration renewal and a bench warrant for her arrest that would be executed when she got pulled over for dead tags because she didn’t let the fact that she couldn’t afford to pay the fine didn’t stop her from driving her car.

  5. Moniker Preferred says:
    June 8, 2012 at 9:42 am

    Apparently, about 25% of Consumerist posters would likely subject themselves to a Tasing in a similar circumstance. Reality has apparently not yet schooled these people.

    Police officers have a legal rights to detain persons. Failing to obey is a violation of the law.

    You can have any opinion you want about the situation, but when a police officer says “STAY!”, you do NOT try to leave. Period.

    What part of that very simple doctrine is hard to understand.

  6. Happy Tinfoil Cat says:
    June 8, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Contempt of Cop

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