This is a terrible injustice.
Dropping her daughter off for elementary school, Charlena Cook, eight months pregnant in Barstow, California, ended up being forcibly handcuffed and wrestled to the ground for no reason whatsoever. Not only was this excessive, the entire ordeal was completely uncalled for.The ACLU fought to have the video released and also announced that all charges were dropped against Charlena.
As you will see in that video, an employee of the school called police after she claimed she and the pregnant mother argued over a parking spot—which is not illegal. Nobody was assaulted and no property damage took place.
The police, though, were determined that a crime had been committed that required the use of brute force.
Warning, it's hard to watch.
Please pay attention to what the officer says at 2:18 in the video.
Did you hear what he said? It was clear to him that no crime was committed, right?
Now, read this:
"Stop and identify" statutes are statute laws in the United States that authorize police[1] to legally obtain the identification of someone whom they reasonably suspect has committed a crime. If the person is not reasonably suspected of committing a crime, they are not required to provide identification, even in states with stop and identify statutes.
Now, watch the officer insist that Charlena Cook not giving her full name is a criminal offense. It isn't.
