She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day.

Body camera footage shows the moment an LMPD officer hands a woman in labor a citation for unlawful camping as she waits for an ambulance.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    TF… she’s got no home, so what are they gonna do after the kid pops out? Make her surrender the baby? Send her and the kid back to the street? I’m sure all of her stuff will be gone by the time she gets out.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      what are they gonna do after the kid pops out?

      Separate the child from the mother and feed them into the underfunded, over-bureaucratized foster system, where the state will pay several times more than the cost of living for mother and child to turn an infant into a marketable commodity for private adoption.