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Title: PIG: Jerad Wheeler kicks pregnant woman in stomach
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URL Source: http://loop21.com/life/cop-kicks-pregnant-woman-stomach
Published: May 11, 2012
Author: Maurice Garland
Post Date: 2012-05-11 06:55:10 by A K A Stone
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Views: 2309
Comments: 3
Officer says he didn't know the woman was pregnant. Just when you thought the police ran out of ways to disgust you. Dekalb County police officer Jerad Wheeler was called to a home to settle a domestic dispute involving a pregnant woman named Raven Dozier, her brother and his child and baby's mother. As things escalated Wheeler pulled out his taser and used it on Dozier's brother. She says that's when she started crying and asking the officer why he used a taser on her brother. Wheeler must not have been in a talking mood because after he used the taser on him, he then kicked Dozier in the stomach. "I think he really just didn't want me asking him any questions, questioning him, and when I did question him is when he kicked me," she tells Atlanta's Channel 2 Action News. "I was upset because I couldn't believe an officer would kick me, with my child in my stomach." Dozier was almost nine months pregnant and wound up giving birth via an emergency C-section two weeks after the kick left a bruise. The now 4-month old baby was born and is healthy. "What kind of a human being kicks a pregnant woman?" says Dozier's attorney Mark Bullman. "I mean, forget whether or not it is a police officer that is supposedly protecting people." Officer Wheeler says that he couldn't tell that Dozier was pregnant and that he only kicked her because she came at him aggressively. He also described the kick as "a front push kick to the abdomen, as he was taught to do at the academy," in his police report. On top of getting kicked in the stomach, Dozier was also charged with obstruction, a charge that was later dropped. She also filed a complaint with the Dekalb County Police Department, but the matter was never investigated and they said that Officer Wheeler's actions were within department policy. This isn't the first time Wheeler has acted questionably. In 2011, he was accused of manhandling a 53-year old woman, twisting her arm behind her back and shoving her face down into a patrol car. She says she was only trying to check on her grandchildren who had just got in a car wreck with their mother. This past January, Wheeler was accused of showing up to the wrong address when called, and then shooting that family's dog. Wheeler is currently under criminal investigation.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
The police in the U.S. are out of control. Beating up women, tazing kids... Cops who do this need to be held criminally liable.
Yep. The Kelly Thomas case here in Fullerton, where they beat this weak, homeless, schizophrenic kid to death, is the icing on this turd cake. I remember hearing how the cops were saying "there's a war on cops," to justify their too-aggressive behavior, their equipping themselves with military hardware and body-armor, and their thuggish tactics. THIS kind of incident illustrates that, unless they stand-down, a "war of cops" is exactly what they'll get. And it's a war that they're gonna' lose.
LoonyMing: I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. 'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?' —Stephen Fry
Their purpose is to protect businesses and maintain the orderly pursuit of commerce. Just ask them.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
The police in the U.S. are out of control. Beating up women, tazing kids... Cops who do this need to be held criminally liable.
The economy is wonderful!
Re-elect Obama, he'll pay your rent!
A chicken in every pot!
-Baghdad Bri-bri-
Translation: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
"What kind of a human being kicks a pregnant woman?" says Dozier's attorney Mark Bullman. "I mean, forget whether or not it is a police officer that is supposedly protecting people."
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