Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor
Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor
Body camera footage shows the moment an LMPD officer hands a woman in labor a citation for unlawful camping as she waits for an ambulance.
That's not a policeman, it's a 2 legged piece of shit in a costume.
Sen. Whitney Westerfield, a Republican from Fruit Hill who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, was one of the bill’s more vocal opponents. When he learned of the citation against a woman in labor, he called it “deplorable.”
A Republican showing compassion? Is that allowed?
There's always a "Republicans shocked to discovery what they vocally campaigned on would come to pass" headline in-between election cycles.
This Republican was a voice against it, however.
There is a minority of Republicans that have actual republican values and are being drowned out, similarly to the socialists within the democratic party.
Its rare to see one, they have to hide now, leaving the typical "Republican" as a far right soulless thing. But this might be an instance of it.
It's also important to note that state parties are different from the national party - as an example Vermont Republican Governor Scott is pro-choice and supportive of trans rights... a lot of state politicians aren't there to grandstand and instead work to solve local problems. Now, that bullshit politicking has been making it's way more often to the state level so that is changing but it's usually good to read up on politicians at the state level.
Definitely. Egregious lack of foresight they the police office didn't write two tickets. One for her and one for the child she was carrying. Life begins at conception so that fetus is as guilty as she is.
Lock it up! Lock it up!
A Republican talking about compassion while actually showing none is allowed, and actually encouraged.
Didn't read, Out of context comment, but he probably called the woman deplorable. 😂
A Republican showing compassion? Is that allowed?
Next week they'll be calling him a RINO just wait.
It's enough for me to call him a RINO right now...
It's only because she wasn't having a miscarriage
I'm surprised they didn't fine the baby
You can't fine a baby, you just fine the mother twice.
Baby was loitering.
Or at least arrest and deport them.
No one’s crueler to the needy like the “Christians” from America’s Bible Belt states.
Same police force who only prosecuted only one officer in the Breonna Taylor killing (IIRC) because he might have endangered others by firing randomly from outside the house apartment building.
MA'AM, PICKUP THAT PLACENTA; THAT'S LITTERING!
Anyone that would be that stupid to pull that act has got to be an idiot ..... and to know that all of it was being actively recorded on a body camera that could be accessed and requested later on .... this has got to be the dumbest idiot in a uniform to date.
and to know that all of it was being actively recorded on a body camera that could be accessed and requested later on
They've had decades if not centuries of cover, even since the introduction of bodycams. Actual scrutiny is new and rare, and they often seem not to care that they are being recorded. I think they are semi-consciously sure no one will care enough to look at the footage.
Morons.
They should have cited the baby as well.
If I can abort a fetus after it's born you can bet we can ticket them.
TF… she’s got no home, so what are they gonna do after the kid pops out? Make her surrender the baby? Send her and the kid back to the street? I’m sure all of her stuff will be gone by the time she gets out.
what are they gonna do after the kid pops out?
Separate the child from the mother and feed them into the underfunded, over-bureaucratized foster system, where the state will pay several times more than the cost of living for mother and child to turn an infant into a marketable commodity for private adoption.
Lt. Caleb Stewart
. . . Needs to reconsider some things.
Lt. Caleb Stewart
Holy fuck after reading that article it's clear Lt. Caleb Stewart has made it his personal mission to fuck with as many homeless people as he possibly can.
Kicking folks when they are down - pretty on point for cops, but this guy seems to really get into it.
I would like to personally tell Lt. Caleb Stewart of the LMPD to go fuck himself. I'm confident that they are searching for social media reaction, and my reaction to Lt. Caleb Stewart is that he's an absolute piece of hot garbage who has clearly made a career out of finding folks who are already experiencing the worst part of their lives and then making those parts even worse.
Stewart was enforcing a new state law that bans street camping — essentially, a person may not sleep, intend to sleep, or set up camp on undesignated public property like sidewalks or underneath overpasses. He has issued the majority of the citations for unlawful camping in Louisville.
That part above, in the article, about how he has issued the most citations, links to ANOTHER article, which says this.
Since a Kentucky law criminalizing “unlawful camping” went into effect in July, its enforcement in the commonwealth’s largest city has primarily fallen to one Louisville Metro Police lieutenant.
At least 26 times between July 15 and Nov. 20, Lt. Caleb Stewart criminally charged people with violating the unlawful camping law for lying on blankets under overpasses, sleeping in tents on sidewalks and otherwise living on the streets.
In that same timeframe, all other LMPD officers issued a combined total of 18 unlawful camping citations.
In enforcing the camping ban — sometimes charging the same homeless individual on different occasions after they continue living on the street — Stewart is regularly dealing with the city’s most vulnerable residents.
But Stewart, who leads LMPD's Downtown Area Patrol, is also facing a 20-day suspension for not reporting a subordinate using a "choking technique" on a man with an apparent mental illness after he chugged a stolen drink in a Louisville hotel’s gift shop last year, The Courier Journal has learned.
An eventual LMPD internal affairs investigation determined the subordinate's actions constituted an unjustified use of deadly force.
Absolute Bastard.
And from the first article, much as it pains me to find myself in agreement with a Republican (clearly this guy chose the wrong party, this is far too human a response):
“It's brutal and unnecessarily so,” Westerfield said. “If they need to cite her or if she's done this and been unlawfully in a public place this way many times or multiple times, then that should condemn society’s failure to provide help for her before it should result in a criminal process against her.”
He's absolutely correct.
More like unlawful cramping.
camping paraphernalia
The fuck...
Proof all pigs have fucken cognitive damage.