“Tiffany Rent stood hunched over in pain outside a Far South Side courthouse Wednesday, tears streaming down her face as she worried about whether her unborn son had been harmed when a Chicago police officer shocked her with a stun gun the previous night.” Wow. Way to pull the heartstrings. The unembeddable video accompanying the Chicago Trib post on Ms. Rent’s shocking encounter with the Windy City po-po does nothing to confirm the reporter’s account of her residual post-TASER physical distress and much to suggest an impending lawsuit. While there’s nothing wrong with ensuring that law enforcement respects those whom it is sworn to serve and protect, Seattle Judge Barry G. Silverman put it best [via nytimes.com]: “There are only so many ways a person can be extracted from a vehicle against her will, and none of them is pretty. Fists, batons, chokeholds, tear gas and chemical spray all carry their own risks to suspects and officers alike.”