KARE 11 Investigates: Jailed, innocent, in labor - and shackled (illegally, in MN)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/jailed-innocent-in-labor-and-shackled/89-185601ee-702c-4ec3-a6c7-5ed3f7266b03

January 7, 2020, began like any other evening at their Dayton, Minn., home. Faris Hussien sat in his living room playing video games on his laptop; his wife, Sara, 9-months-pregnant with their first child, cooked in the kitchen.

Due in only two weeks, they dreamt of how they would welcome their son into the world. Her husband would be by her side to comfort her, with their family close by, ready to bring him back to a home filled with everything their new baby could possibly need.

“We were so excited to be a family,” Faris said.

Then they heard what sounded like a boom at their front door.

The night would end with 26-year-old Sara alone in the Hennepin County jail, booked for a crime she did not commit, weeping in searing pain and in labor.

Her 26-year-old husband sat behind bars in another part of the jail, arrested after he says he defended his wife and unborn child against what he thought were home invaders.

Instead, they turned out to be police, raiding his home because they wrongly suspected he was working with a small-time shoplifter.

[Bayard]

1. WTF?!

"In a lawsuit, Sara accuses a Maple Grove officer of slamming her to the ground onto her stomach and sending her into labor."
She spent the night in jail, in labor, and had to show them her water had broken.

This sure sounds like a hate crime to me.