situations like these lead me to wonder if the cops involved were stupid or arrogant;

Broward County, FL — Last year, as TFTP reported, Tammy Jackson was pregnant and in solitary confinement for a trespassing charge—unable to pay her own bail—when she went into labor. Her cries for help went unanswered by officers at the jail, and as a result, she gave birth by herself, and her daughter Miranda spent her first moments on Earth in a dark concrete room designed to hold serial killers.

The fact that a mother gave birth by herself in a concrete cell is horrifying and one would think that the Broward County Sheriff’s office would take action to make sure it never happened again. However, one would be wrong.

Last month, another mentally ill woman was forced to give birth to her son in a jail cell, according to a letter sent to Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony by the Broward Public Defender’s Office.

“She was denied the dignity of a hospital bed and the assistance of a physician,” according to the letter, signed by Executive Chief Assistant Public Defender Gordon H. Weekes Jr. “The repeated and callous indifference to the medical needs of a laboring, mentally ill mother is of grave concern.”

Imagine for a moment that this exact same jail made national headlines last year for this very same thing and they are so callous and reckless that they would do it again a year later after no one was held accountable. Well, that is exactly what happened.

Because this was the second time it happened, Sheriff Troy could no longer ignore the horrifying negligence of his top brass. The Miami Herald reports that the sheriff’s office fired Colonel Gary Palmer and Lieutenant Angela Neely Thursday after an administrative review of the circumstances surrounding the birth........read more........