Pregnant? Tough! Police Taser Away . . .
When deputies pulled her over, Valinda Otis told them she was pregnant and needed to use the bathroom.
When they wouldn’t let her go to a nearby restroom, she walked toward it, anyway, she said, and was quickly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car. She screamed and kicked the car door.
That’s when a deputy with the King County Sheriff’s Office pulled out a Taser, pressed it against her thigh and jolted her with 50,000 volts of electricity.
King County sheriff’s deputies have fired Tasers at a teenager who ran after not paying a $1.25 bus fare, a 71-year-old man who was arrested for drunken driving and refused to get into a patrol car, and a partially deaf man who couldn’t hear deputies ordering him to stop, reports show.
Some civil rights advocates argue Tasers are being drawn too quickly and in cases in which such extreme force isn’t necessary. They worry about potential abuses as more officers rely on the tool to subdue people who they say pose no serious threat to themselves or others.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer . . .
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