Liberty Minute August 28 2013

Under what circumstances is it justifiable for a police officer to assault an uncooperative but non-violent pregnant woman?

In a video that recently surfaced on YouTube, an unidentified Rochester, New York Police Officer is seen struggling with an unarmed pregnant woman. She cries out: ?You?re going to kill my baby? just seconds before the officer punches the woman in the back of the head and throws her face-first to the ground.

Earlier this year, a young pregnant girl was kneed in the stomach by one of three Rochester Police Officers who were restraining her during an arrest. In April 2012, Rochester Police pepper-sprayed a pregnant mother and an elderly woman during the arrest of a 25-year-old man named Jose Lugo. They also pepper-sprayed and arrested Lugo?s aunt while she was on the phone attempting to contact their superiors.

In early 2012, a DeKalb County, Georgia Police Officer named Jerad Wheeler kicked a pregnant woman named Raven Dozier in the stomach when she complained about excessive force being used to arrest her brother. The victim was arrested and charged with obstruction. The assault caused her unborn child to defecate in the womb.

Is it too much to expect that American police would refrain from acting like the Assyrians from the Old Testament?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.