The latest police outrage

Pregnant woman held down, tasered. There should be a rule that every time a cop uses a Taser, he should himself be subjected to tasering

FOOTAGE of a pregnant woman being held down on her stomach while being Tasered by a police officer has emerged in the middle of a US federal investigation. Shocking CCTV footage of the incident, which occurred nearly two weeks ago outside of a police station in Trotwood, Ohio, is being distributed online.

According to police, the woman had gone to the station with her one-year-old son in hope of giving up custody of the boy, television station WHIO reported. After a short argument, a struggle broke out between the officer – who moved the boy out of harms way - and the woman. The officer then shoved the woman onto her pregnant stomach and Tasered her in the neck.

Trotwood Public Safety Director Michael Etter told WHIO that an officer was trying to find out information from the woman before the incident. “(He) attempted to obtain information on both the mother and the child, at which time the mother refused to give any information and became very agitated,” Mr Etter said. “She did not disclose, even after she was arrested, that she was pregnant.” Mr Etter said that the woman was wearing a large coat at the time.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations is investigating the matter. The young boy has reportedly been put into the custody of a relative.


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Australia: No jail for police rapists

An exhibitionist police officer and three friends who raped a man with a sex toy while filming him on a mobile phone have been given suspended sentences. David Kingsley McMahon, Brendan Phillip Hollands, Sian Catherine Whistler and a youth were sentenced in the District Court today for a "drunken prank" that "went too far".

Judge Peter Herriman said the group showed a lack of maturity, courage and honesty by humiliating their friend – and then showing off a video of their actions. "As much as it was fuelled by alcohol, I have concerns about the attitude of some of you to the offending in the cold light of day," he said. "Neither of you young men seems to have viewed your conduct as very serious, even when you sobered up."

McMahon, 22, Hollands, 21, Whistler, 20, and the youth pleaded guilty to raping the man at an Aberfoyle Park party in 2005. "You were all in the habit of drinking to excess... you engaged in exhibitionism, sometimes of a sexual nature," Judge Herriman said. The group used a sex toy and clothes pegs in ways that caused severe damage to the sleeping victim. They also filmed the incident on a mobile phone while making "disgusting remarks". Hollands and McMahon – then a cadet police officer – showed the video to two other people. The victim, meanwhile, was left to piece together what had happened to him through rumour and suspicion. He now requires surgery and counselling.

"None of you later had the courage, honesty, remorse or sense of guilt to approach the victim, tell him what happened or apologise," he said. "The manner in which he slowly found out was traumatic." Judge Herriman said Hollands had since shown "some measure of guilt", but it was "some time" before McMahon accepted the wrongness of his actions. He jailed them both for three years, Whistler for two years and three months and the youth for a minimum of eight months. Their sentences were suspended on condition of three-year, $1000 good behaviour bonds.

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