VIDEO: Tasered Half-Naked Pregnant Woman Loses Baby Following Horrifying Police Brutality

Warning, fam. This video is hard to watch.

Martini Smith was jailed in September 2009 when she was 20 and pregnant. Horrifying images of the incident have just now surfaced, and the video is going viral.

Smith was only 20 at the time, and she was jailed on charges of misdemeanor domestic violence (she says she stabbed her boyfriend in self-defense while he was beating her).

According to a news report on police brutality by Reuters:

• “Stice and a deputy had ordered her to disrobe, take off all jewelry and don a prison gown. But she hadn’t been able to obey one command – remove the silver stud from her tongue.
• “Take the tongue ring out,” Deputy Shawnda Arnold said. Smith continued struggling to unscrew the ring, inserting fingers from both hands into her mouth. No luck. Her fingers were numb, she protested: She had been cuffed for six hours with her hands behind her back.
• “I will Tase you,” Stice said. The ring was slippery, Smith said, asking for a paper towel. The deputies refused. “I just want to go to sleep,” Smith cried.
• Stice warned her again, then fired. The Taser’s electrified darts struck Smith’s chest; she collapses against the concrete wall and slid to the floor, gasping, arms over her breasts.
• “Why did you Tase me?” she moaned. “I wasn’t harming nobody. I can’t just take it out.”

Five days later, she suffered a miscarriage. Whether or not the earlier beating at the hands of her abusive man played a part in the loss of the baby isn't known.

Smith didn’t just slink away. Nope—she sued the police force and was awarded $27,500 in a 2011 settlement. She tried to put it all behind her.

The violent and alarming video emerged recently as part of an investigation into the use of stun guns at jails across America, and it has prompted the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to call for deputies to face charges.

Now that the video is viral, Smith is speaking out. In an interview with Reuters, she tearfully admitted that the loss of her baby still haunts her. “It stays with me like it was yesterday,” she said.

This is just horrible. No one should have to suffer like this.

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