From [HERE] and [HERE] Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority is looking into a complaint filed by a pregnant Black woman who was shocked with a police Taser on Tuesday night. Tiffany Rent, who is eight months pregnant, left the hospital Wednesday afternoon after being checked by doctors. She and her unborn child appear to be OK. But she said the baby hasn't been kicking as much as usual since the incident.

At about 8 p.m. Tuesday, Rent, her two young children and her boyfriend, Joseph Hobbs, pulled into the parking lot of a Walgreens on the 110 block of South Michigan Avenue. She parked in a handicapped parking spot and Hobbs went into the store. Rent said she got out of the car to re-seat her 3-year-old when a Chicago police officer began writing her a $200 ticket. "He gave me the ticket and I threw the ticket on the ground," Rent said in a telephone conversation with NBC Chicago. Rent said she got back into her car and closed the door. That's when, she said, the officer told her she was under arrest and used a Taser on her through the window. 

She told the Chicago Tribune that officers were aware of her condition because she is visibly pregnant: "I was standing at the squad car close enough for him to see that I was pregnant." Police claim that she was attempting to drive away. (Didn't the police want her to move her car out of the handicapped spot? It seems there was no legal basis to detain her and no probable cause to arrest for any offense! Last month a Dekalb County officer attacked a 9 month pregnant Black woman [MORE] -bw).