A Detroit activist who was forced to give birth in jail last year after she was sentenced to two years in prison for brandishing a registered, unloaded firearm to defend herself could be heading back behind bars once again as prosecutors seek a new trial after her original conviction was overturned.

Siwatu-Salama Ra, 28, a mother-of-two, was convicted in 2018 for waiving the firearm at a three-time felon, who, she said, rammed her car and started making threats towards her family outside her home.

Seven months pregnant at the time of her sentencing, Ra was handed a mandatory two-year prison term, despite being a registered gun owner, living in a ‘Stand your Ground’ state and having no prior criminal record.

Ra recalled for the Reno Gazette Journal the horror she endured giving birth at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility, shackled to a bed as officers stood near-by laughing and playing on their phones, after an appeal to delay her sentence until after she’d given birth was denied.‘No woman should have to sit and bear the pain of giving birth alone while officers laugh and chuckle and play on their phones while you’re trying to bring life into this world,’ she said.

Long maintaining the incident was an act of self-defense, an appeals court threw out Ra's conviction in August, calling her actions ‘reasonable’, with her attorney claiming her trial was littered with a ‘parade of errors’ from the beginning.

But on Friday, Ra’s nightmare was reignited when she appeared in Wayne County Court, tears dripping from her eyes, to the news prosecutors will be re-trying her on assault and gun charges.

‘It felt like they just wanted to punish me more,’ Ra, a co-executive director of an environmental justice group who represented Detroit at the Paris Climate talks, said outside the court.

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then some deluded person would say having a gun is the right way to go.....

***spit on floor***