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Charges dropped against woman whose baby was ripped from her by NYPD officers
Source: The Guardian
Charges dropped against woman whose baby was ripped from her by NYPD officers
Jazmine Headley was arrested at a Brooklyn benefits office after she refused to stand up from the floor
Erin Durkin in New York
Tue 11 Dec 2018 18.24 GMT
Prosecutors have dropped charges against a woman whose baby was wrenched from her arms while she was arrested by New York police officers after video footage of the incident went viral.
Jazmine Headley, 23, was arrested on Friday at a Brooklyn benefits office, in a chaotic scene where officers wrestled her one-year-old son away from her, and has been locked up ever since. On Tuesday, the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, said he was dropping charges against her.
“Like everyone who watched the arrest of Jazmine Headley, I was horrified by the violence depicted in the video and immediately opened an investigation into this case. It is clear to me that this incident should have been handled differently,” he said.
Headley had gone to the office of the city’s human resources administration to resolve a problem with a voucher to pay for daycare for her son, where she waited for four hours and sat on the floor because there were no chairs available, her lawyers and witnesses said.
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The Brooklyn district attorney said an HRA security officer “escalated the situation” when Headley was about to leave the premises, “creating an awful scenario of a baby being torn from his mother”. Two HRA officers have been placed on leave and will be put on modified duty when they return to work, the agency says.
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Jazmine Headley was arrested at a Brooklyn benefits office after she refused to stand up from the floor
Erin Durkin in New York
Tue 11 Dec 2018 18.24 GMT
Prosecutors have dropped charges against a woman whose baby was wrenched from her arms while she was arrested by New York police officers after video footage of the incident went viral.
Jazmine Headley, 23, was arrested on Friday at a Brooklyn benefits office, in a chaotic scene where officers wrestled her one-year-old son away from her, and has been locked up ever since. On Tuesday, the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, said he was dropping charges against her.
“Like everyone who watched the arrest of Jazmine Headley, I was horrified by the violence depicted in the video and immediately opened an investigation into this case. It is clear to me that this incident should have been handled differently,” he said.
Headley had gone to the office of the city’s human resources administration to resolve a problem with a voucher to pay for daycare for her son, where she waited for four hours and sat on the floor because there were no chairs available, her lawyers and witnesses said.
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The Brooklyn district attorney said an HRA security officer “escalated the situation” when Headley was about to leave the premises, “creating an awful scenario of a baby being torn from his mother”. Two HRA officers have been placed on leave and will be put on modified duty when they return to work, the agency says.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/11/woman-baby-yanked-nypd-officers-charges-dropped
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