Her water had broken, she said. “I’m leaking out,” she told him. She grabbed a blanket and a few personal effects as a bright orange city dump truck pulled up to remove the makeshift bed.

“Am I being detained?” she asked.
“Yes, you’re being detained,” he shouted. “You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.”

Stewart walked back to his car to write the citation as city workers finished loading the mattress into the garbage truck.
Once in the police vehicle, Stewart narrated to himself as his body camera recorded his comments.
“So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor,” he said.

He returned to find the woman sitting on the ground, with legs askew and labored breathing, waiting for the ambulance. Stewart hands her a citation, and she balls it up and tosses it aside as the ambulance arrives to take her to the hospital.

This sounds like I am reading some dystopian book, not news.

This is so backwards. The government should be penalized for the existence of homelessness.

And then gets into medical debt from the ambulance and the ER.

American police evolved out of slave hunters and anti-union thugs, remember that.

As always, ACAB.

I love how the police department’s statement basically reads “we called an ambulance and she delivered in a hospital; otherwise, the baby might have been born on the street. We’re heroes.”

Are they pressing charges on the new born as well ?

Just like Herod ?