Chicago cop investigated for ‘punching pregnant woman in stomach’

Reuters / Jeff Haynes

Reuters / Jeff Haynes

The Chicago Police Department is investigating claims that an officer punched a pregnant African American woman in the stomach, putting her in the hospital.

City resident Nicola Robinson told a local Fox affiliate that she
was assaulted by a police officer on Friday evening after he
caught her having a laugh at the officer’s expense.

The police officer was chasing a suspected drug dealer on foot,
Fox 32 reported, and Robinson says she laughed out
loud when she witnessed the man get away.

According to Robinson, the cop then came over and gave her a
push, then slugged her in the gut before launching into a racist
rant.

“As I got ready to walk in my building he punched me on my
right side as hard as he can,”
she told the station.

“After he punched me, he presumed to say ‘You black bitch,
you better be glad I didn’t hit you hard enough to make you lose
your fucking baby,’
” Robinson said.

Robinson is eight months pregnant and was admitted to a local
hospital, where she spent five hours before being given the
all-clear.

The woman’s sister, Monique Dickerson, told Fox 32 that she
witnessed the incident, and an employee with a management company
that oversees an adjacent building said it was caught on camera.

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“The other two officers who [were] with him were standing there
and they’re looking like, what are you doing,” added Dickerson,
“but I guess they didn’t want to say anything.”

The Chicago PD’s Independent Police Review Authority is now
investigating the allegations, according to the station, and in a
statement the agency called the claims “very disturbing” and
added that such “abhorrent behavior” would not be tolerated.

Robinson’s claims, first reported on Monday evening by Fox 32,
follow news announced last month that Mayor Rahm Emanuel was
endorsing a deal that establishes a $5.5 million reparations
package to go toward individuals who suffered in the 1970s and
1980s under former Police Commander Jon Burge. An internal review
determined in 1993 that Burge had used torture, including
electric shock, mock executions and suffocation, during
interrogations carried out by the Chicago PD over nearly two
decades.

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