A 27-year-old woman in New York suffered an hour of obstetric pain, handcuffed and legless, before police removed some of her restraints to give birth to her right hand tied to the delivery bed.
The British newspaper The Independent reported that the woman was suffering from birth pains when police removed her from a cell in Bronx prison in New York and transferred her to a nearby medical center in February last year.
Doctors warned police officers that the restrictions were illegal in New York and that women were at serious risk, but police said police patrol evidence required women to be restricted, and that "any police evidence" goes beyond state law in legal order and priority.
The paper said the evidence required police to restrict the detainee who needed medical or psychological care, but would allow the police to remove the restrictions if the doctor so requests and after consultation with the patrol supervisor.
Police officers have already consulted with the patrol's supervisor, but he said the restrictions were necessary.
You will not tell her child when he grows up
She said she had not understood the meaning of her shackling during childbirth and was not prepared to tell her newborn son when she grew up.
The woman filed a lawsuit against the police demanding compensation for the violation of her civil rights and demanded that the police change her policies to ensure that no one would hold a pregnant woman in detention again.
The text of the case states that the shackling is inhumane, cruel, and useless, and has ceased to exist in New York State law since 2009.
The lawsuit cited US medical organizations and authorities as saying that the use of restraints such as cuffs, shackles and abdominal ligaments on pregnant women can cause complications and hamper efforts by doctors to deal with the condition.
The prosecutor's lawyer said the fact that the police ignored doctors' advice indicated that they had no human sense, but blindly followed their own understanding of the content of the patrol manual.