Appalling video shows NYPD forcefully trying to pull one yr old from mom's arms...

[riversedge]

OMG--look at this cop trying to pull the baby from the moms arms. OMG!





A Brooklyn woman applying for food stamps sat on the floor as no chairs were available. The NYPD came and forcibly pulled her ONE-YEAR-OLD son out of her arms. She faces multiple charges and is being held without bail on Rikers.
Pat Kiernan

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‘Appalling’ Video Shows the Police Yanking 1-Year-Old From His Mother’s Arms

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/nyregion/nypd-jazmine-headley-baby-video.html

Police officers arresting a woman in Brooklyn while she was holding her 1-year-old son. A video of the encounter was posted to Facebook.CreditCreditNyashia Ferguson

By Ashley Southall

Dec. 9, 2018


A video that shows police officers trying to remove a woman’s 1-year-old son from her grasp as they arrested her in a Brooklyn food stamp office ignited a fury on social media and prompted calls on Sunday for an explanation from the police.

A Facebook user who uploaded the video said the police had been called on Friday after the woman, identified by the police as Jazmine Headley, 23, sat on the floor of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program office in Boerum Hill because there were no available chairs.

After a verbal dispute with a security guard, someone called the police, according to Nyashia Ferguson, who posted the video.

It begins with Ms. Headley lying on the floor, cradling her son and yelling, “They’re hurting my son! They’re hurting my son!”

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A female sergeant and three police officers, two of whom appear to be women, surround Ms. Headley and attempt to pull the child away. Then one officer, her back facing the camera, repeatedly yanks the child in an apparent attempt to separate him from his mother.

After more officers join the fray, the officer who yanked the child waves a yellow stun gun at the outraged crowd of onlookers, which includes several children and people filming with their cellphones.


The encounter was the latest in New York to spark outrage over excessive policing against unarmed civilians, despite the Police Department’s implementation of de-escalation training.

[Read about the case in which a Bronx woman was forced to give birth while handcuffed.]

Nearly all of the civilians involved in those incidents have been black or Latino. The training followed the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, from a police chokehold in 2014 on Staten Island...................

[samnsara]

1. i was a social worker for a hospital for a decade. I met with young mothers..

..often single and alone..many undocumented ..over whelmed....other kids in the house. MANY red flags for a STATE soc worker. Some of my clients had their children forcibly removed for various reasons....messy houses mostly. The moms all told me the same tearful story.... if they resisted having their babies taken away from them they would be charged with resisting. There are HORMONAL reasons for a mother to fight for her children...as well as moral and HUMAN reasons. This just angers me more....even after being off the job for years.

It just freaking never changes. If youre a single poor mom of any race youre fucked. One mom had her baby removed AT BIRTH because the state soc worker was alerted mom was 'behaving erratically'. Some RN got her panties inna bunch and called the state. I called the ACLU...baby had (I felt) the RIGHT to nurse from mom..antibodies and all that! Mom was forced to take drugs to dry up milk. Mom eventfully got baby back but my professional relationship with the social worker who made that call was forever damaged. Not even sure if ACLU got my message.

This is why I #RESIST

ps....all involved in this fiasco were white.....

[Guilded Lilly]

2. -Troubling- doesn't even come close!...

And “fury igniting “ isn’t enough. If what we are seeing has no other serious, extenuating circumstances that were not shown (and even then)
These officers must be held accountable for hideous and violent professional over reach and personally assaulting this woman and child.
E-NOUGH.

[Stuart G]

3. This one is hard to believe...but there it is..(mother was there to get food stamps)

She was sitting on the floor with her child..(there were no chairs left, no places to sit)..In my opinion they could have waited her out...but no, they had to order her...and then take her child....According to one story I read about this, she is still in jail..don't know the circumstances. And how does it look to people who live in New York City as to how the police act?...
............................. Which do you think is smarter?....waiting, waiting, and more waiting??
.....................................or what you see on the video.???................................

[malaise]

4. Was a lead on ABC a few minutes ago

Is throw we treat poor people- no fucking chairs?
Where is our humanity?
Time for New York politicians to wake up, say enough and mean it.