Cop Keeps Job After Flipping Pregnant Woman’s SUV Over to Give Her a Speeding Ticket, Taxpayers Held Liable Instead

Little Rock, AR — Cops, as the Free Thought Project reports on a regular basis, are extremely quick to escalate force. From baton blows to trigger pulls, American cops love to dish out the violence with extreme prejudice. There is another form of violence police use that doesn’t get mentioned as much but is just as deadly. It is called the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) maneuver, and a pregnant woman in Arkansas, Nicole Harper, sought to change police policy after a cop used a PIT maneuver on her after accusing her of speeding — a traffic ticket.

This month, her attempts to influence policy were successful, though the cop involved in her near-death experience will remain on the job. The taxpayers will be held liable instead.

“We are extremely pleased that we were able to secure the policy changes and updated guidelines pertaining to the use of PIT maneuvers which was the primary goal of this case and will help protect all Arkansans moving forward,” attorney Andrew Norwood said. “While Mrs. Harper will undoubtedly need time to recover from the psychological trauma she suffered after the PIT maneuver in question, she is excited to close this chapter of her life and focus more on her family.”

In July of 2020, Nicole Harper was driving home on the interstate when Senior Cpl. Rodney Dunn accused her of driving fast and targeted her for revenue collection.

Not wanting to pull over on a dark highway, Harper, who was pregnant with her daughter at the time, tried to drive to a well-lit spot to be extorted. Harper put on her hazard lights, pulled into the right lane and slowed down to look for a well-lit area to stop.

Harper, failing to immediately prostrate herself before the state to receive her promise of extortion, however, seemingly enraged the Arkansas state trooper. That’s when Dunn decided it was time to perform a PIT maneuver on the pregnant woman which caused her car to roll end over end before crashing into a concrete barrier at 60 mph.

“In my head I was going to lose the baby,” Harper told FOX 16 at the time.

The trooper’s body camera recorded the conversation after the deadly maneuver.

“Why didn’t you stop?” Dunn questioned.

“Because I didn’t feel it was safe,” Harper said.

Dunn responded, “well this is where you ended up.”

“I thought it would be safe to wait until the exit,” Harper said.

“No ma’am, you pull over when law enforcement stops you,” the trooper stated.

“We don’t anticipate vehicles rolling over nor do we want that to happen,” Dunn said, adding, “all you had to do was slow down and stop.”

“I did slow down, I turned on my hazards, I thought I was doing the right thing,” Harper said.

Harper explained that the exit at which she intended to stop was less than a half mile down the road.

Harper went on to file the lawsuit mentioned above against the Arkansas State Police accusing the trooper of using negligent and excessive force by conducting the PIT maneuver.

The lawsuit stated, and the video illustrated, that Harper had slowed down and indicated that she was going to stop but the trooper escalated to deadly force anyway.

“I feel like I had heard that’s what you do, you slow down, you put your flashers on and you drive to a safe place,” Harper told FOX 16, and it turns out, according to the State Police’s own textbook — that is exactly what you are supposed to do.

According to State Police’s “Driver License Study Guide,” under “What to do When You Are Stopped” section, the first instruction says to use, “emergency flashers to indicate to the officer that you are seeking a safe place to stop.”

This is exactly what Harper did and she was nearly killed for it.

FOX 16 reports:

PITs are becoming more common with State Police. Recent FOX 16 Investigates uncovered State Police attempted or used pits on at least 144 drivers last year. That’s almost double compared to the year before. In 2020 at least three people were killed during PITs, one was a passenger.

“What was done to Ms. Harper was deadly force,” Harper’s lawyer Andrew Norwood said, noting they intend to change to policy on when cops use PIT maneuvers.

“There was a less dangerous and more safe avenue that could have been taken before flipping her vehicle and making it bounce off a concrete barrier going 60 miles an hour,” Norwood said, and he is right.

What this incident illustrates is the lengths to which cops will go to extort citizens over traffic violations. If a cop claims you made some arbitrary and victimless infraction, that cop will extort you. If you refuse to be immediately extorted, that cop will try to kill you.

Just months after Harper’s near-death experience, police used a PIT maneuver on a car in Georgia, knowing there were children inside. When the car flipped, a 12-year-old boy in the backseat was killed.

Source: The Free Thought Project

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.

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