NYPD Accused Of Tasering Pregnant Woman’s Belly After Throwing Her To The Ground (Video)

NYPD officers were filmed throwing a woman on the ground, on her belly, in the middle of the street. She says they later tasered her stomach.

More disturbing news for New York City residents. After disturbing video was released a week ago showing a mob of dozens of NYPD police officers from the 72nd precinct assaulting street vendors, another video has been released showing officers from the same precinct brutally treating a pregnant woman.

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At about 1:00 AM Saturday morning, Sandra Amezquita was in a Brooklyn restaurant with her family. Police reportedly had the family come outside the restaurant and arrested Amezquita’s 17-year-old son, Jhohan Lemos, for possession of a knife. It’s not known how police knew he had a knife.

That’s when things got ugly.

Amezquita reportedly was upset with how brutally police officers were treating her son. Cops, as evidenced in the video below, threw her to the ground, belly first, into the middle of the street. 

The New York Daily News describes 5-foot-4 Amezquita as “clearly pregnant,” and the police as “tackling” her to the ground.

The baby’s father, Ronel Lemos, said he watched in horror as his wife hit the ground belly-first.

“The first thing I thought was they killed my baby and they’re going to kill my wife,” Lemos, 50, told the Daily News on Tuesday.

“I was afraid something happened to my baby. I am still afraid that something is wrong,” she said, referring to the abdominal pain that persists.

Amezquita suffered vaginal bleeding after the incident, and her belly and arm still bear bruises.

She was given a summons for disorderly conduct and her husband was arrested for assaulting a police officer, cops said.

“According to police watchdog group El Grito de Sunset Park,” Salon reports, “police officers had actually been harassing Lemos for a prior robbery arrest and planted the knife.”

“According to this young man,” said Dennis Flores of police watchdog group El Grito de Sunset Park, “when they put the razor blade in his pocket, they told him, ‘We’re going to make sure this time, it sticks. So the mom saw this, started yelling out, and the cops grabbed her and slammed her against the floor like we see in the video. And they put a Taser to her stomach.”

Watch raw video (caution: disturbing):

 

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