A pregnant woman in Kentucky was fined for street camping while she was in labor.
Body camera footage obtained by Kentucky Public Radio from the city police force showed Lt Caleb Stewart walking up to a pregnant woman under an overpass in the city’s downtown area.
The visibly pregnant woman, whom the radio station is not naming, told the officer that her water had broken. “I might be going into labor, is that OK?”
“I’m leaking out,” she added.
She was walking to meet an ambulance. Ignoring the woman's medical condition the officer, Lt Caleb Stewart, made her walk to his vehicle so he could usher her a ticket. He then had the mattress that she had been using taken away.
The Guardian also reports the camera shortage recorded Lt Stewart state, "So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor.”
The woman gave birth shortly afterward and is now living in a shelter with her family.
The unhoused woman was cited due to the state's new law that bans street camping.
It's unlikely to resolve the housing crisis in Kentucky.
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