I have a hard time understanding why being a woman or pregnant has to do with it. If a person is invading public space with obscenities...that's all I need to know. Book her!
The part about her being pregnant is just a ploy to try and gain sympathy for her. It's an attempt to paint her as being harrassed by "the man," who is just out to get her. Nevermind the fact that being pregnant does not make it allowable for a woman to be a loudmouth.
Nothing at all in the article about obscenities. It said the cop thought she was 'talking too loud on her cell phone'. Maybe he had a hangover and couldn't bear any noise.
Dr. Syn Wrote: "if a person is invading public space with obscenities...that's all I need to know. Book her!"
Dr. Syn, its called the 1st Amendment. "The State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense." US Supreme Court, Cohen vs. California (1971) http://archive.aclu.org/court/cohen2.html
But those with such a Taliban-like mentality may not comprehend.
If the charge truly was violating some noise ordinance, obscenities would have nothing to do with it.
This police department reject (aka transit cop) probably has a small penis and even smaller self esteem and compensates for it with these actions, but would freeze up if confronted with a real criminal.