Video: NYC Police Tore a Woman’s One-Year-Old Son from Her Arms Because She Sat on the Floor at a Food Stamp Office
Screencap via Twitter
After reading that headline, you probably have two questions:
1. Is this real?
2. Was the woman a poor person of color?
The answers are “yes,” and “of course yes.”
According to the New York Times, someone—likely security guards—in a Brooklyn food stamp office on Friday called the cops on 23-year-old Jazmin Headley, who sat on the floor with her one-year-old daughter since there were no chairs available in the crowded space, where she had been waiting for two hours. The cops came, the situation escalated immediately, and it ended with one of the officers literally yanking the woman’s baby from her arms:
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.pic.twitter.com/vdTOpKsWWT
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) December 10, 2018
The Times has the description, and see if it sounds familiar from literally every other horrifying police video you’ve seen in recent years:
After a verbal dispute with a security guard, someone called the police, according to Nyashia Ferguson, who posted the video…