NYPD INVESTIGATING VIDEO OF OFFICERS PUSHING PREGNANT WOMAN TO THE GROUND (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 13:21

New York City police are investigating an altercation between officers and a pregnant woman that was captured on amateur video, officials said Wednesday.

The video shows an officer struggling with a woman who police say tried to intervene in the arrest of her 17-year-old son early Saturday morning in Brooklyn. The woman is taken to the ground on her stomach by the officer.

The woman, Sandra Amezquita, is 5 months pregnant, her attorney Sanford Rubenstein said.

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