Appalling Video Shows NYPD Officers Ripping Infant From Brooklyn Mother's Arms

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Elected officials are calling for an investigation into the arrest of a Brooklyn mother, after video surfaced of police officers attempting to rip the woman's infant child away from her in a Boerum Hill food assistance center last week.

Footage posted to Facebook shows an NYPD sergeant and three officers wrestling with the distressed mother—identified by police as 23-year-old Jazmine Headley—as she lays on the ground clutching her 1-year-old son. One of the officers repeatedly attempts to yank the child from his mother's arms, prompting cries from the woman and a gathered crowd. "They're hurting my son," Headley shouts. "I'm begging you, please."

The same officer later pulls out a stun gun, which he points at the horrified onlookers. "There's a fucking baby in her hands!" one onlooker screams.

The chaotic incident happened on Friday afternoon, after Headley allegedly had a dispute with a security guard about sitting on the floor. She works as a cleaner, and was at the assistance center to pick up day care vouchers for someone to look after her young son, Damone, her mother told ABC-7.

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