New York Police Officers Taser & Burn A Pregnant 17-Year-Old On Video

A disturbing video shows a teenager screaming as New York police officers shock her with a Taser for allegedly resisting arrest — even after she told them she was carrying a child.

"I was screaming I was pregnant the whole time," 17-year-old Dailene Rosario told ABC 7. "I was telling them, 'Get off me, I didn't do anything wrong.' "

According to The NY Daily News, Rosario plans to sue the city for $5.5 million, claiming the officers approached and assaulted her "illegally and without a proper warrant."

The incident happened on February 10 outside Rosario's family's apartment in the Bronx.

Rosario claimed her boyfriend and her sister's boyfriend, who are brothers, were fighting about a video game that night. 

Officers who were downstairs responding to a different, unrelated call heard the argument and went upstairs to see what the scuffle was about, according to ABC 7. By the time police arrived upstairs, the dispute was over. 

After Rosario asked the officers for a warrant to enter their unit, she claims one officer told her, "Oh, you're refusing."

"Next thing I know, he grabbed my arm and pulled me into the crowd of cops," Rosario said. "Somebody was pinching me, and then I got Tased ... (my right hand) was already in the cuff, and then I ended up on the floor."

Rosario — whose baby bump was visible, according to one onlooker — was burned by the Taser on her right side. "It’s like your whole side is on fire and you’re being stabbed at the same time,” Rosario told the Daily News. "The hook was embedded into my skin so they had to cut it to take both the Tasers (barbs) out."

After being handcuffed, Rosario was taken into custody. She was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct the next day after spending the night in jail.

Though a doctor later confirmed that Rosario's unborn child was unharmed in the Tasering incident, she remained shaken, and understandably so: Rosario delivered a stillborn baby at eight months last fall.  

"I could have lost my (current) baby due to the Taser, anything could have happened," she said. 

NYPD officers are instructed not to use Tasers on "children, the elderly, obviously pregnant females, and the frail" except in extreme circumstances, as the Daily News pointed out.

But Ed Mullins, president of the NYPD sergeants union, said he saw nothing wrong with the use of force in Rosario's case.

"I can tell you that from what I’ve seen, I really don’t see any issue with using the stun gun," Mullins told the Daily News. "She’s failing to comply with arrest. I mean, how do you know somebody is pregnant unless they absolutely look pregnant?"

The NYPD said it is aware of the incident and currently conducting an internal review.