I have lightened up on reports of police abuse lately because I get disheartened by chronicling America's steady slide into a police state. What a magnificent country America could be if it actually believed in and practiced the founding freedoms. But my self-serving hiatus is over. There are always abuse cases to choose from...today's winner comes from ABC News: "Pregnant Woman Forced to the Ground". The story opens, Elementary school principal Yvette Hayes will never forget the night of July 13, 2007. She was pregnant at the time and believes police jeopardized the life of her unborn child. When Hayes was pulled over in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Mo., on Interstate 70, she thought it was a routine stop. "I'm thinking they'd ask for my driver's license," she said. Instead, police drew guns on the five months' pregnant mother — whose two children were in the back seat of the car — and told her to lie on the ground. (Video available here.) When they realized their mistake, the police tried to cover it up. ABC News reports, The officers are then captured (on video) talking between themselves. "I'll do a report on this to cover our a--," the officer said. "If they got a black male suspect, they need to be sure they got a black male driver so I don't traumatize a very pregnant woman anymore and put her on the side of I-70."