Tiffany Rent stood hunched over in pain outside a Far South Side courthouse
Wednesday, tears streaming down her face as she worried about whether her unborn
son had been harmed when a Chicago police officer shocked her with a stun gun
the previous night.
Rent, who is eight months pregnant, said the officer knew she was expecting
and accused him of overreacting during a dispute that began over a parking
violation.
"I didn't hit anybody," Rent said. "I didn't do anything."
But police say Rent, 30, swore at the officer and tried to take off in her
SUV when he said he was going to arrest her.
The incident occurred late Tuesday when Rent parked in a handicapped spot at
a Walgreens in the 10300 block of South Michigan
Avenue while her fiance, Joseph Hobbs, went inside to buy a battery for his
car's key chain remote, police and Hobbs said.
A police officer wrote a parking ticket, but Rent tore it up and threw it at
him, according to a police report. The officer got out of his car to write her a
ticket for littering and asked her for identification, the report said.
"I ain't giving you (Shit Bitch)," the report quoted Rent as saying.
As Rent got back into her SUV, the officer warned that he would use his stun
gun if she drove away. When Rent "put her right hand on the gear shifter in an
attempt to put the car in gear and leave the scene," the officer fired the
weapon, the police report said.
Hobbs, the father of Rent's unborn son, was arrested when he tried to
intervene, police said. He said he suffered a dislocated elbow during the
arrest.
Rent was released after treatment at two separate hospitals. She and Hobbs
were charged with misdemeanor offenses.
Police Superintendent Garry
McCarthy declined to discuss details of the incident but said police are
generally authorized to use a Taser to prevent an escape or overcome an assault.
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating.
But whats not stated is that the doctor's at the hospital stated her baby is ok. This bitch just wants to sit pretty the rest of her Lazy life off of the tax payers bet she is on link and gets medical at Cook County Hospital.
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