An off-duty American cop fired for kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach



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North Miami Beach police sent Ambar Pacheco back from force less than two days later

There was soon little chance for Evoni Murray to enjoy a night walk in Miami Beach.

Murray was eight months pregnant on Wednesday. . And her due date on August 4 arose while she was walking in the sweltering heat of summer with the future father.

Then the couple met the policeman Ambar Pacheco. A confrontation began, during which, says Murray, Pacheco kicked him in the stomach

Murray, 27, suffered a lot, a responding police officer wrote in a report and may have had contractions in the street. The baby was arriving – nine days earlier.

Murray was rushed to hospital and Joseph Predelus III was born after seven minutes of work, his father Joseph, 40, told WSVN

Across town, Pacheco, 26, was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, according to an affidavit from Miami Beach Police Department provided to the Washington Post.

North Miami Beach Police Chief William Hernandez sent Pacheco back from the force less than two days later. following the recent actions of Ms. Ambar Pacheco out of service, her employment in the city of North Miami Beach ended immediately, "Hernandez said Friday in a brief statement. She had been with force less than a year and was on probation, reported the Miami Herald.

The details surrounding the incident are unclear. The affidavit of arrest does not say how or why the confrontation began. But Ambar Pacheco told the police that Predelus had kicked his sister, which provoked his violent reaction.

"I saw red and beat the end of [Murray]", according to the affidavit. She later stated that she could not remember who she had hit, according to the document

Murray is described in the affidavit as "visibly pregnant".

Predelus denied having badaulted Pacheo's younger sister, Mikaela Pacheco, 21 years old. suggested that the women were intoxicated.

"I've never done anything, nothing, I've never touched anyone," Predelus told WSVN. "All I did was defend my little mother and a child, but I do not put my hand on women, and that's how it should be, especially a pregnant woman."

In an interview with CBS Miami Murray hypothesized that the confrontation with the sisters began with a misunderstanding.

"We were walking on the sidewalk enjoying the night and we saw them," she told the station. "These girls were crying, then they thought we were talking about them, which was not true, they got badaulted and tried to jump because they thought I had said something. "

A conviction for badault against a known pregnant woman According to the law firm Hussein & Webber [15] Murray and the Pacheco sisters could not be reached for comments. Predelus told the Post that his newborn son and Murray were doing well, but declined to comment further.

Mount Sinai Medical Center, where Murray gave birth, did not respond to a request for comment. According to an information sheet from the Mayo Clinic, Murray Murray told CBS that she hoped Pacheco would get help for her entry into the criminal justice system.

"It worries me a little bit that people who are supposed to serve and protect us hurt us," she told the station. "I know it's not all and an apple does not spoil the group, but sometimes you have a bad seed."

(Except for the title, this story was not published by the NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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