Too far? – IOTW Report

Too far?

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A group of NYPD officers tried to rip a child from his mother’s arms at a #Brooklyn food-assistance center Friday in a scene captured on video that first sparked outrage and now an investigation. The shocking footage posted to #Facebook shows a young mother — identified by police as Jazmine Headley, 23 — sitting on the floor at a SNAP center in Boerum Hill as a uniformed officer attempts to pry her year-old son from her arms, dragging her across the room in the process. Other officers also joined in trying to separate mother and son.

“Oh my God, oh my God, look what they’re doing to us, look what they’re doing to her,” someone can be heard yelling as about three officers and at least one security guard surround the woman. “There’s a f—king baby in her hands!” someone else screams. At one point, the mother can be seen mouthing, “I’m begging you please,” as she lays flat on the ground. One police officer points what appears to be a Taser at the protesting crowd as more cops arrive.

Monae Sinclair, who posted the video, wrote that the mom sat down on the floor at the 275 Bergen St. center because there were no chairs left, and she was confronted by a security guard.

“[The mom] made the security guard feel dumb so she called the cops on her and this was the outcome,” Sinclair wrote in the video’s caption. “She had her baby in her hands the whole time. I’m so f–ing disgusted with the NYPD.” City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Sunday called for an investigation into the video calling it “unacceptable, appalling and heartbreaking.” “I’d like to understand what transpired and how these officers or the NYPD justifies this,” Johnson tweeted. “It’s hard to watch this video.”

The NYPD said they were investigating the “troubling” incident. Cops were called to the center on Friday at around 1 p.m. after Human Resources Administration weren’t able to kick out a person they said was being “disorderly” and blocking a hallway.

When officers got to the center they ordered Headley to leave but she refused, they said. “HRA peace officers brought the woman to the floor,” the #NYPD said. She was charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration and criminal trespassing.

45 Comments on Too far?

  1. The woman, obviously, spends big bucks getting her multi-colored hair done.

    I am not amused: the kid is just a fashion accessory. ….Lady in Red

    PS: The entire incident is just sooooo…… civilized?

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  2. LIR

    Exactly, anybody that bleaches their hair should be treated this way. Please tell me exactly what law she broke.

    “the kid is just a fashion accessory.”

    How do you know? This doesn’t seem to me the way a free people should be treated.

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  3. ” Cops were called to the center on Friday at around 1 p.m. after Human Resources Administration weren’t able to kick out a person they said was being “disorderly” and blocking a hallway.”

    If they’re talking about her, then that’s what she gets.
    The very last thing you want is to have someone acting crazy in a EBT/welfare/Medicaid/ or Social security office. It’s the same as acting insane inside of a bank.
    They had to take the baby out of her arms. What were they going to do? Handcuff the kid to her like a briefcase full of secret documents? lol.

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  4. Some of the authorities that get involved with families and their children are not much different than the gestapo. Just this afternoon I’ve been thrown into a situation that has Child Protective Services, a Washington state government operation having removed my step grandchildren from their home. Tomorrow my wife and I are to appear at CPS to undergo an interview and background checks to determine if we are acceptable to be temporary custodians of them. I’m damn near hyperventilating over this.

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  5. Thanks Brad. It’s tough to get a family law attorney on the phone at 7:00 in the evening. These kids mother has busted her ass for her kids and one kid says the wrong thing and the government takes the kids and tonight they are in foster homes. I can’t believe it.

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  6. A couple of things. The cops that got into this ought to be dismissed if only because they are too damn stupid to recognize that this was going to be recorded, it was going to be on the net and they were going to be sitting in front of an internal affairs panel and likely in front of a bunch of reporters.

    The second is that this mother won’t have to worry about getting food stamps once her lawyer (and they will be lining up to represent her) is finished with the city.

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  7. The fact of the matter is that this mother and child should not have been mistreated so, regardless of the behavior the police encountered. This was not anarchy they encountered. It could have been handle peacefully. Ultimately, the problem is the lack of proper training given to these officers.

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  8. joe6pak – I’m in Oregon now (due to company/job) but was in Washington back in the day when CPS was notorious for bad issues. Hopefully my latest family experience will provide comfort:
    Sister doing drugs; brother calls CPS & reports abandonment (I’ll spare the “he lied” details); CPS takes nephew & gives custody to same brother; sister goes through required rehab & stays clean for required time; legal plays out; she now has regained full custody again; monitoring continuing for not much longer; her case is expected to be closed soon & no more CPS target on her back. Whole process played out over about 2 yrs. CPS was fair, much better than I remember reading about in the 90s.
    We had done the background checks (simple process: fingerprints, ever been arrested) in preparation for taking temp-custody of nephew but wasn’t necessary.
    I’ve tried to be real brief: long story short I think you’ll be fine.
    Long term: Teach the children right away what is acceptable and not to say & to whom. My nephew (12) almost said & did wrong things which might have made a temp situation permanent, kids need to know right off the bat who they can safely talk to for complaints and issues – and the teachers/counselors ain’t them.

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  9. Menotu, thanks for that, I appreciate it. Mentally I’m preparing for the worst as far as an invasive interview experience goes. Both my wife and I are as clean as a couple 60 year olds can be, my wife’s biggest concern is if I speak what I’m thinking.

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  10. I cannot believe that some of you assholes can justify the way this woman was treated. I hope to hell this happens to your wife or mother or daughter. God damn you f%*king loser pieces of shit. Move to some commie shit hole if this is the way you want to live.
    To the rest of you…..thanks for sticking up for her.

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  11. Absolutely terrifying… They sort of dog piled on her while she STILL had her baby in her arms!
    The NYPD could’ve killed or seriously injured that child, and for What?
    An ‘outstanding warrant’ supposedly from NJ that was ‘So serious’ the charges were later dropped???

    Unbelievable.

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  12. @Joe6pack:

    Rarely in today’s world are anyone called “social workers” your friend in this kind of situation. They represent the ideology of the state and the supposed ideal of child “salvation.” They may act friendly you act civilized.

    They will view you as either part of the problem or else part of the reasonable course (they are the solution) of action needed to be taken. Generaly most will allow natural boundaries and paths to work – in other words you’ll be all right unless one of them is on a crusade.

    Praying for you and your family.

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  13. Grool……The entire fucking scene there was lunatic: anyone could have produced a gun, a knife, punched a cop….. The screaming!

    Hair done like this woman had costs on the order of a couple hundred bucks — and she can’t do those braids herself.

    The police were a problem, but so was her (drug-addled?) non-compliance: “just sit and talk, lady….. let us hold the kid and we can help you…..”

    Do I think the kid should have been “murdered” before birth? I don’t know, but probably he’s got a snowball’s chance at love, care, training, story reading at night and more. He will be a drain on his neighborhood and our government.

    Trust me: her hair says a lot about her child loving and her money priorities. The kid is a fashion accessory. We will all pay for it. ….Lady in Red

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  14. Can’t help but wonder how many men (obviously not gentlemen) were sitting in seats in the waiting area that never bothered to offer a mother carrying her baby a seat?

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  15. Should have choked her to death (a la Eric Garner – course that was for tax-evasion, not tax-sucking-up) and post-partum aborted the kid.
    She and the kid are just “surplus population,” aren’t they?

    izlamo delenda est …

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  16. @ Peter the Bubblehead

    This is the outcome of feminism and ERA. I’m with you. A man or even a woman w/o a child could’ve/should’ve given up their seat for her. But then if a man did, he would have been man-shamed for being polite.

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  17. What kind of mother lets her child get pulled and grabbed like that. Could’ve pulled a limb out of socket. She should get charged for that alone. Stand up and act like a decent citizen. King Solom said “let’s cut the baby in half, the fake mom said ‘okay’. This is a fake mom! And I have to agree with LIR statement about the hair, that costs money she needs to get her priorities in order.

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  18. New York, New York
    A wonderful town.
    Da cops is up
    And da dumb bitch is down
    ——
    Been to NYC once; have NO desire to return as long as the Met’s putting out DVD’s.
    ——
    Fur- How ya like PSL?

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  19. @ Joe6pak – I FULLY understand what you are going through. You will have to be VERY strong for your family.

    About five plus years ago my youngest boy about six years old and he and another boy where in a ‘comparing things match’… “Well yeah my grandma…hits me with a wooden spoon with needles in it” my son is supposed to have said. Someone, either a lunch monitor or the principal herself heard this little innocent and innocuous conversation.

    Later that evening, I was on my way to work when I get a call saying that CPS was at the door looking for the boy(s). My wife got the same call on the way home from work, this ALL being out of the effing blue!! They were back at the house the next day interviewing us. I actually let them in, NOTHING TO HIDE HERE, and they saw two very happy boys living in a LOVELY home, one of my boys holding a football, these two from CPS looked at eachother as if to say “what the hell are we doing here?”. AND when they learned about my Italian mother in law and the ‘wooden spoon connection’ they established that there was a ‘cultural thing’ going on and only that. They also said they think, off the record, that someone might, for whatever reason, have it in for us and that we should watch our back!

    Boy did that leave a sour taste in our mouths within our own community…who do you trust now? We, for the most part, have been living in this town longer than most that come and go.

    CPS said that while there did not appear to them that there was any abuse done to my son BUT we still had to undergo an investigation, with visits to the house by CPS for every two weeks for four months.

    We as a family have been recovering from this incident still to this day and I have had to try and reverse the damage that was done to the four of us. Mrs. Glover was an emotional mess thinking that CPS was going to ring the door bell and show up at any moment.

    We did not have to hire a loy-ya thank goodness but we did have to go to ‘counseling’ to prove to the school that we were ‘handling’ it.

    My boys enjoyment of being in school went into the toilet after that.

    As a result we have sealed non criminal record, wife, me and wife’s mother, with the Failed State of New York.

    Yes it CAN happen to anyone!!!!!!!! SO WATCH IT.

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  20. Anyone here ever dealt with ghetto animals at street level to make a living? It ain’t pretty. In fact you can expect shit just like this.

    I would have ordered a bus to bring a backboard, straps and duct tape for her giant yapper. Transport to the saliva yard for observation, the baby to foster.

    Welcome to The System lady. Hope your baby doesn’t become the ghetto lobster your violent, low IQ-low impulse control will inevitably produce.

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  21. Well, charges have been dropped against Jazmine Headley, although she is ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for credit card fraud. Credit card fraud! Who woulda thunk it? She looked so law-abiding and innocent….

    (….and I was wondering how she afforded her expensive hair locks….Got it!)

    I’m afraid this $1K fine will take care of a lot of months of welfare food payments caring for little Demone.

    (….or, perhaps, special people, like Jazmine, don’t need to pay fines….? Fines, perhaps, are for little people. She wants the responding police fired and intends to sue the city.) …..Lady in Red

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