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I didn't say anything about her being hit with a baton (not that I can remember or find anyway). If I did, it was definitely a mistake.
She claims she was kicked in the stomach and hit with a bike by two different police officers. I am basing what I said off of that. If she was kicked in the stomach by a police officer without actually doing anything but blocking traffic, I'd call that excessive force. The bike incident, if it happened at all, was almost certainly an accident. I doubt a cop would purposely hit someone with a bike without knocking them down.
That being said, I doubt her claims are very close to the true story. Very little evidence exists that cops hit, kicked, or ran into her at all yet. And I doubt very much that being sprayed with pepper spray is likely to cause a miscarriage a week later. Possible? Sure. What is more likely is the stress of being sprayed and what led to getting sprayed actually being the cause, not the chemicals in the spray. And if it was the stress from that, then it is her fault for putting herself in that position. If it was from getting kicked by the cop, there's proof of this (unlikely though, since most miscarriages are hard to identify a specific cause, especially a week after an incident) and proof is found that he kicked her without provocation, then it is his fault. Without a lot of evidence to support her story and that the cop heard her say she was pregnant, I wouldn't agree with charging him for fetal homicide or anything like that.
I agree, the idea that the police would do this intentionally is a very high mark and would need sufficient evidence. However, it doesn't mean the blame is on the lady either.
If anything, this was regrettable and entirely accidental.