Shocking video shows a pregnant teen tased without provocation. See video below.
Apparently, police brutality has moved on from marginally justifiable use of force on disorderly miscreants to pregnant teens that know their Constitutional rights.
The incident occurred the night of Friday, February 10 in Bronx, New York. Seventeen year-old Dailene Rosario and her sister, were at their apartment on East 242nd Street with their boyfriends. Darlene was 14 weeks pregnant, and the foursome were hanging around playing video games—obeying the laws and minding their own business.
Darlene Rosario, a New York teen who was reportedly tased without warrant or cause.
Meanwhile, the police were investigating an issue in another part of the building. On the floor above the Rosario’s, a kid had been trapped in an apartment. The officers took care of the incident and then stopped by the Rosario’s apartment after another neighbor mentioned there was arguing.
Apparently things had gotten heated over the video game, and the two boys got into a pretty intense altercation. One of them had left and Dailene was unleashing her pregnant rage on the remaining boy.
That’s when the police got involved. They knocked on the door, and demanded to enter. The sisters, knowing their rights refused to let them in without a search warrant.
The officers wouldn’t leave the door and instead called for backup. Dailene, being pregnant, exhausted from arguing and over her head as a teenager with cops at the door, announced she was going out for some fresh air.
The officer grabbed her arm and accused her of resisting arrest.
“He said, ‘Oh you’re refusing,'” she told ABC 7. “Next thing I know, he grabbed my arm and pulled me into the crowd of cops. Somebody was pinching me, and then I got tased…(my right hand) was already in the cuff, and then I ended up on the floor.”
The now reinforced group of officers broke down the door, arrested the boy, and dragged Darlene into the hall. That’s when the witness in the apartment building started filming.
The video shows the rest.
About a dozen officers fill the hallway, and several are manhandling Darlene. They are twisting the girl’s arm as she cries out in pain, saying, “get off me, get off me.”
The audio clearly picks up the pop of the stun gun and the high pitch wail of Darlene as she shrieks in pain and falls to the ground in tears.
“I’m pregnant, I’m pregnant,” she wails.
She later clarified the officer fired a stun gun into her side and dropped her to the ground when she revealed her status.
“It’s like your whole side is on fire and you’re being stabbed at the same time,” Rosario told the New York Daily News on Tuesday. “The hook was embedded into my skin so they had to cut it to take both the Tasers (barbs) out.”
The video catches shots of her baby bulge coming out of her sweatpants while she writhes on the ground, encircled by an impenetrable wall of officers, several deep.
The witness and others repeat the phrase, and the officers try to block the camera and appear to be intimidating the witness into stopping filming. But the camera keeps rolling. The video ends with the girl laying on the floor crying.
Darlene was arrested for fighting and charged with resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration, and disorderly conduct. “I resisted because I didn’t do anything wrong,” she told Bronx News 12.
Dailene has reported bruises from the incident and the taser left 2 inch burn marks on her torso. She told New York’s ABC 7 that this wasn’t her first traumatized pregnancy either. She delivered a stillborn baby in September in 2016, and has been concerned about losing this one. “It was more than enough cops to handle me,” she said.
NYPD remains cautious about the claim and the video. “We are aware of the incident,” the NYPD said in a written statement. “It is under internal review.”
However, there are conflicting reports of the story. Alternate versions, including the one in the police report, take a different turn and include neighbor and witness statements.
The alternate version in the police report states that the two boys had taken the argument into the hall. That’s when the police interfered, on insistence from the neighbor, who said, “They’re fighting down there.”
The police went down to the scene, where Dailene dismissed them by yelling, “Nothing. We don’t need you.”
Then later, she and her sister were arguing in front of another doorway. The officer approached her again. “I don’t want to talk to you. I just want to go.”
She then allegedly shoved the police officers out of the way into a doorway. That’s when they tried to arrest her. But when they tried to cuff her, she sat on her hands, and threw herself onto the ground, flailing arms and yelling,“Yo, why are you trying to cuff me? I didn’t do anything wrong.” And as she struggled, that’s when they used the stun gun.
Either way, she told ABC 7 it was all because, “they fought over a video game—about leaving it a friend’s house. So that all boiled down to that, to then me and her boyfriend getting arrested. The way it went down was just ridiculous.”
Her family is investigating options for suing the New York Police Department. They are currently being represented by Legal Aid. The office has not yet commented on the situation. She was released on her own recognizance on Saturday and is due in court March 28. Medical reports confirm that both mother and baby girl survived the incident intact.
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