Cop slammed over footage showing his violent arrest of pregnant black woman has retired
This is the shocking moment a Florida cop drags a pregnant black woman out of her car and slams her to the ground, which has left the city furious after he was allowed to retire.
Police had been called to the scene in Boca Raton in May by a witness who said partners Harry Hardy and Nerillia Laurent had been in a heated argument.
Body cam footage captured officer Matthew McNichol confront the couple, which includes him telling the two that Boca Raton was ‘his city’.
After ordering Laurent out of the car McNichol grabs her by the arm and twists it behind her back and pulls her to the ground, all the while she screams ‘I’m pregnant’.
As McNichol pins Laurent to the ground, her partner Hardy can be heard saying: ‘She’s six months pregnant, what is wrong with him?!’ to another officer.
Despite Laurent protesting that she was pregnant at the time, McNichol hauled her from the vehicle
Officer Matthew McNichol, pictured here, had grabbed McNichol from her vehicle and forced her to the ground, while she was pregnant
BocaNewsNow.com first reported that officer McNichol had been allowed to retire from his department shortly after the incident in May of this year.
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