A pregnant woman nearly 8 months pregnant in To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong, was roughed up by police officers during a street check last Wednesday (20), when the officers stopped and checked another person at the same Time and instructed the pregnant woman to stand next to him, the pregnant woman refused on the grounds of keeping a social distance, but was yelled at by the officers as “a fat woman” and questioned whether she was pregnant. The woman was then handcuffed and dragged by the police. The pregnant woman was born prematurely in the early hours of the 23rd, the baby boy had to be sent to the neonatal intensive care unit to receive treatment, intubated in the rescue, the situation is critical.
The pregnant woman’s sibling Miss Liu told “Stand News” that her sister was scheduled to give birth in April this year, although admitted to the hospital after three anti-fetal injection, but the fetus is still unstable, to the 23rd “red” emergency delivery, the production process is a large amount of bleeding situation. Miss Liu also said that her sister is still weak, she visited the baby boy on the 24th, found that the baby boy must be intubated, put on oxygen mask and eye patch.
Ms. Liu to the “position” to provide two closed-circuit surveillance video, one of the video can see the pregnant woman downstairs and was immediately stopped by police officers, once removed the suspected purse object, but still surrounded by at least five police officers, one of them reached out and grabbed her arm. The pregnant woman sat on the ground by herself, her hands were locked behind her back by the police officers. And then several police officers to pull up the main pregnant woman unsuccessfully, the pregnant woman was dragged for a few seconds, and her buttocks fell to the ground twice.
The Hong Kong police replied to media inquiries, said the police officers asked the pregnant woman to produce identification documents, the woman was agitated and refused to listen to the instructions of the officers, and after the officers issued two verbal warnings are still uncooperative, the officers then arrested the woman for “obstructing police officers in the performance of their duties”. When the officers made the arrest, the woman said she was not feeling well and asked for an ambulance to take her to the hospital, where she was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for medical treatment.
Former Democratic Party legislator Lam Cheuk Ting said, according to Hong Kong’s “Police General Orders”, the police in the suspect’s escape and injury to their own handcuffs, and not necessarily to lock, but the police officers that day to deal with pregnant women to deal with the means of major criminals, is really domineering and beyond the bottom line of conscience, people are outraged.
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