Accused of speeding, Janice Harper says she tried to pull over last July on the dark highway when the state trooper performed a controversial, sometimes deadly maneuver meant to end a police chase.
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senator lindsey graham, one of the republicans negotiating a bill on policing reforms, saying, talks with the democrats have gotten off track, after saying he was optimistic just a few days ago. but one of his democratic counterparts, cory booker, pushing back, saying both sides are working out their differences. that as we are learning an arkansas woman is suing a state trooper for allegedly causing her car to flip during a traffic stop when she was pregnant. the incident caught on dash cam video. cnn s amara walker has more. reporter: a traffic stop in arkansas turning dangerous in minutes. the driver, janice harper, was allegedly speeding in a 70-mile-per-hour zone on highway 67 in pull ascii county, when state trooper rodney dunn activated his emergency lights. you can see from his dash cam video harper turning on her blinkers, slowing down, and then moving into the right travel lane. then dunn appears to bump her
suv, causing her to lose control. harper s car flipped over. you could hear the distress in harper s voice telling the trooper she s pregnant. i m pregnant. well, ma am, you ve got to pull over i had my flashers on. reporter: last month, harper, who was two months pregnant at the time of the wreck, sued the arkansas state trooper, his supervisor, and the director of the arkansas state police, c calling dunn s p.i.t. maneuver created a substantial risk of physical injury to her. there were no exits or shoulder for harper to safely exit the highway before defendant dunn negligently executed a p.i.t. maneuver on plaintiff s vehicle two minutes and seven seconds after defendant dunn initiated his overhead lights. why didn t you stop?