I hate the police 98% of the time, and this treatment makes my blood boil. but after watching the exact moment over ten times with biased eyes from BOTH perspectives, i think it's clear the pregnant lady tripped.

Only after you have that high horse put down.

Unless she is wearing a sign saying I am pregnant, probably (given that she was resisting arrest and trying to get away). At 5/6 months, there isn't a clear difference between looking fat and looking pregnant when you wear a hoodie at night.

Did she tell them she was pregnant? Based on that video, I wouldn't necessarily think that the officers could tell she was. She has a large sweatshirt on and it is dark with flashing lights so visibility wasn't that great. Knowing before watching the video that she was pregnant might make it seem obvious, but under…

She interfered with an arrest and then tried to resist either being moved or cuffed. So I would say it's more of what kind of pregnant woman thinks it's smart to obstruct an arrest (even one where undo force is being used) and then struggles resist being removed or arrest. Can't really defend the tasering though.

I do like cops. I like the concept and most of the time it's pretty good in practice too.

In the video you can clearly see that an officer had restrained her arms and was making her walk back to the sidewalk (away from where they were brutally beating her son) when she turned to run back, falling in the process. The cop did not push a pregnant woman onto the ground. The cops did, however, beat up a young…

A recent graduate who attended Hofstra at the same time as Kazantsev told Jezebel that the final two steps of pledging in one (unnamed) sorority involved making all of the pledges remove their underwear and sit on newspapers while the older members forced them to watch lesbian porn. Anyone whose newspaper stuck to…

Amen to that! I was always grossly aware that anytime ANYONE wants to tell you the story of their child's birth it is, in essence, showing off. They either want to horrify you with the insane details, or paint a picture so pretty an=bout their doula and the mood lighting and then show you a picture of themselves in…

If you do, in fact, want kids, you should pay no damn attention to these stories. Don't read them. Use your own intuition and advice from people you trust to make this decision. These stories are not well intentioned. It's a bizarre form of showing off.

I'm glad she's feeling better about it, but this doesn't relieve me of having to see Colin Jost attempt to do jokes every week.

Also, for people minimizing this because the poor lady was just sooo stressed, please read the appeals court's opinion reinstating the charges. She not only placed a Craigslist ad, she REPLIED to those ads PRETENDING TO BE THE INTENDED VICTIM. So the whole 'oh, I didn't know anything bad would happen' line from her…

I would suggest she should have stopped BEFORE the stupid mail pranks, seeing as she's a grown up and all.

I don't think that's fair. Exploring fantasies in a consensual context is not the same thing as actually raping someone. Especially as these men obviously stopped as soon as there was the slightest suspicion that this woman was not consenting. If your theory was accurate, they would have carried on, because there…

This is a little more than just a "prank". People could have been raped and killed. What a total nut case.

I read about this a few days ago. I HATE that everyone (INCLUDING and ESPECIALLY her) keeps calling them "pranks." 1 or 2 men actually DID show up at the house of this poor woman and then thought maybe they had the wrong house. One of them emailed the "prankster" who told him, they had the right house but that the…

"A Superior Court initially dismissed the sex solicitation charges because he agreed that Rowe meant no harm,"

There are risks with surgery no matter what the age or the health of the person. If this was a twenty year old woman that worked out every single day and was incredibly healthy, then it would be something to be angry about. But Joan was 81 years old and she had put herself through many unnecessary surgeries over the…

No, it's not just anti-vaxxer kids who get sick. Young infants aren't old enough to get vaccines, and they can catch these diseases and die from them. People who have illnesses or who are on medication that makes them immunocompromised will be likely to catch these illnesses and could suffer complications or die from…

I think this needs to go beyond education. The anti-vaxxer crowd are a health menace and are willfully ignorant —they will not let themselves be educated.