Cop Kicks Pregnant Woman In The Stomach; Superiors Approve
Supervisors squashed investigation, described actions as “within department policy”
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
May 11, 2012
A police officer from Dekalb County, Ga. with a history of violent conduct kicked a heavily pregnant woman in the stomach in a recent incident that the officer’s superiors described as within department policy.
The incident occurred when officer Jerad Wheeler was called to the pregnant woman’s home to settle a dispute involving the woman’s brother and his partner.
When her brother began arguing with the officer, nine month pregnant Raven Dozier said that Wheeler pulled out a taser and used it on him. When Miss Dozier started crying and asking the officer why he was resorting to such actions, Wheeler kicked her in the stomach, arrested her and charged her with obstruction of a police officer.
“I was upset because I couldn’t believe an officer would kick me, with my child in my stomach,” Dozier told WSBTV investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer.
“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,” Dozier added.
Thankfully, the child was not affected and was born healthy via an emergency C-section two weeks after the incident. The charges against Dozier were dropped.
“What kind of a human being kicks a pregnant woman?” said Dozier’s attorney Mark Bullman. “I mean, forget whether or not it is a police officer that is supposedly protecting people.”
Dozier filed an internal affairs complaint with the Dekalb County Police Department, however, officer Wheeler’s superiors put a lid on the investigation and explicitly approved of his conduct, saying he did not contravene department policy.
In his incident report Wheeler claimed that he could not tell that Dozier was pregnant and that he kicked her out of self defense because she was acting aggressively. Wheeler described the kick as “a front push kick to the abdomen, as he was taught to do at the academy”.
“He had no reason to do that, and for a higher authority to say that he is OK, his boss is wrong too,” Dozier said.
“I believe that something should be done. Men go to jail every day for hitting women and it’s not OK just because he is a police officer,” she added.
When investigating the incident, reporter Jodie Fleischer discovered two more use-of-force complaints against Wheeler, filed within the last nine months.
Wheeler was accused of twisting a 53 year-old woman’s arm and forcing her face into a patrol car in 2011. The other complaint notes that In January, Wheeler shot dead a family’s chained dog after showing up at the wrong home on a call.
Fleischer notes that “in all three cases, the victims were not the focus of the original police incident.”
While he was cleared and exonerated of any wrongdoing by his department in all three cases, Wheeler is now under criminal investigation.
“It’s showing that there is an ongoing pattern and practice of attempting to clear officers of clearly illegal, unconstitutional, and improper conduct,” Bullman said.
“My hope is that with this and other cases, things will change at the DeKalb Police Department, that it is no longer possible for officers to commit felonies against citizens that have committed no crime whatsoever,” the attorney added.
In a separate incident, three officers from the same police department were indicted this week for mercilessly beating a group of handcuffed teenagers. The officers were also accused of serving a similar beatdown to another 18-year-old as recent as last November.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
The other night, my sis who is a bartender was driving home from work at night. Yes she had a few drinks (no one make assumptions) but honest to god it wasnt affecting her driving or ANYTHING. All of a sudden a car with no headlights was speeding toward her from behind and she freaked out and went to the other lane (t was night so roads werent busy) cause she thought it was gonna ram her. Then it turned out it was a cop car and they pulled her over and two other cops were following. They said they had been following her cause she had an expired sticker (which she did) but pulled her over cause they thought she was drunk for going into the other lane (yes she was drunk but she only messed up driving cause a car without lights was about to crash into her!).
They didnt do the breathalizer or anything but they were going to put cuffs on her so she reached and was about to roll up the windows in her car cause it was raining and all her stuff and phone was in there and they started saying she was resisting arrest which is a bunch of bull and they didnt let her roll up her windows! Then she told me that they put on the cuffs and they were forcing her into the car (this was three big cops by the way) and one hit her head on the door trying to get her in and since she hit it hard her head swung back and they said she was resisting arrest again one of the cops went to the opposite door and yanked her in by her hair and collar. Then they drove her to a church parking lot and took her out of the car and started beating her up. She said they made sure she wasnt infront of the dash cam in the police car and started hitting and hurting her but they made sure they didnt leave any marks, all she had was a giant lump on her head from hitting the car.
Then after they beat her up they took her to the jail place where they did a blood test on her for alchohol, they stuck her in a cell and took her shoes and socks and refused to give her socks back. She was stuck freezing in a jail cell for 12 hours cause she was in her work clothes (a skirt and tank but not slu**y or anything just not much to keep you warm) and they refused to give her her freaking socks!
I was absolutely OUTRAGED to hear that some f*cking bastards would do this to my sister who wasnt even doing anything bad, YES I KNOW, she was drinking but she wasnt “under the influence” she hadnt had much and she was forced into a reckless moment BECAUSE OF THEM, then they BEAT HER UP! AT A FREAKING CHURCH!!! For absolutely no reason! They beat her up “because they could!” WHAT soul-less pricks would do this? She is nearly traumatized after this experience and is terrified of cops now, WHO ELSE THINKS THIS IS DISGUSTING? that cops think they are so superior?