Police Rip One-Year-Old Baby From Mother's Arms | Daniella Castanheira

On Friday, Jazmine Headley was at the Fort Greene Food Stamp Center in Brooklyn with her one-year-old child. Her child-care benefit that allowed her to maintain her job had ended, and she was trying to resolve it and get her child back in daycare. Since there were no chairs available, she sat on the floor. The NYPD were called on Headley, and after she refused when they repeatedly requested her to leave, she was arrested. During the arrest, a police officer tried to pull her baby out of her arms, to which she understandably resisted and yelled, "You're hurting my son! You're hurting my son!" Headley was charged with resisting arrest, acting in a matter injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration, and criminal trespass, and is currently being held at Riker's Island until her court appearance on December 13. According to the Mercer County Sheriff's office, Headley has an outstanding arrest warrant for failure to appear in relation to a credit card fraud.

It does not matter that there was an arrest warrant for Headley beforehand, or that she was blocking a hallway. No one deserves to have their baby yanked out of their arms. Especially not in a government building that is supposed to be building connections withing the community. Many people have expressed their outrage over the incident, and rightly so. When the police are acting like the Border Patrol along the US-Mexico border (following Trump's separation policy) inside the borders they're supposed to be protecting, something is up. The behavior of the NYPD is, in this case, completely unacceptable. As Letitia James said, "being poor is not a crime."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/us/nypd-mother-child-video/index.html