Police threaten to shoot pregnant woman after four-year-old allegedly stole a doll
The video shows how police officers threatened to shoot the pair during a physically aggressive encounter.
This incident with the police happened after the woman’s four-year-old daughter allegedly stole a doll from a convenience store.
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Videos of the incident started doing the rounds on social media and show a pregnant Iesha Harper trying to obey police orders to leave her car. Her two kids were with her.
In one video a police officer can be seen pointing a gun at the car while another screams at Harper that they are going to shoot her.
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"My hands are up! My hands are up!" 22yo Dravon Ames says as a Phoenix police officer yells to "get your fucking hands up." The same officer later says "You're gonna fucking get shot!"
— Meg O'Connor (@megoconnor13) June 12, 2019
Ames says the officers stopped him after his child walked out of a Dollar Store with a doll. pic.twitter.com/Nlkd7IXsyc
Another angle of the incident filmed by a different resident of the apartment complex where Ames and his pregnant fiancee were dropping off their kids with a babysitter show a Phoenix police officer trying to yank the child from the mother's arms. pic.twitter.com/pTb07lZAXD
— Meg O'Connor (@megoconnor13) June 12, 2019
Harper can be heard telling the officers that she has her children with her and that she is pregnant, but one of the officers replies, “I don’t care, put your hands up.”
Harper and her husband, who are from Arizona, have since filed a $10 million claim against the city of Phoenix after the altercation. According to Slate, the couple says the police officers’ actions amounted to battery, unlawful imprisonment, false arrest, and a violation of their civil rights that left them with emotional distress.