NYPD police officers forcibly yank child away from mother

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I did post this in the news but no one really noticed so reposted here

WARNINGvideo is quite distressing to watch

The reason for the police doing this has not get really been given but I don’t care. No police officer should be abusing their position of power and doing this!!

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The whole thing is chaotic as fuck, but she put her child endanger by using it as a shield to stop herself being arrested.
At the point at which the video starts She lying on the floor, resisting arrest, with a large rowdy crowd incredibly close to her, what else could the police have done apart from remove the baby at that point.
I'd be interested to know what happened, what thr police had done prior to that to get the baby in a less chaotic manner. If it went straight from hello your under arrest to this, the police are at fault, if this is near the end of a larger negotiation and they made a decision as it had just got too dangerous for the child at that point to continue just talking, I think she's at fault.

I haven't watched the video, but given that it happened in the US, I suppose they couldn't be sure she wasn't carrying a gun.

Didn’t take long for someone to shout racism

The woman was an idiot and made the situation 100 times worse for the poor child.

In an ideal world, once it was clear that she was not going to cooperate, they could have cleared the room of the screaming bystanders and dealt with her more calmly.

Somewhat horrifying to see the Tasers out and bandied about given that she wasn’t doing anything more dangerous than sitting / lying in the floor.

Surely had she been suspected of a more serious crime it would have been in the facility’s and police’s interests to say so.

Anyway, between them all that child will have been totally traumatised

I think there are ways to get someone to comply

And this doesn't look like one and will have traumatised the child

Idk I think here if it was a minor crime you might have an officer or two gently gradually talking the mother into letting the baby go and a lot of warning before lying on the floor clinging on happened about how that wouldn't be right for her child... maybe it did happen but I have less faith in US cops

If you scroll down you can see she was wanted in connection with a credit card fraud and jumped bail.

Woman is an idiot and put the child at risk.
mess is of her own making.

Woman is resisting arrest and endangering her child by doing so. The police might have been able to handle it better but I'm guessing that situation got out of control very quickly

If you read further down it actually says that there was an arrest warrent out for that lady for credit card fraud.

So maybe someone reported that she was there and that's why they went and arrested her.

Sadly the responses here do not surprise me. The police are disproportionately violent towards black people.
Furthermore if she were white the responses here would be full of sympathy/empathy and excuses explaining why she would be so desperate as to sit in protest. However she's black so she must have done something to warrant the treatment.
This poor woman has been released from Rikers Island and ALL charges have been dropped.

Agreed!

@foundmykey
". The police are disproportionately violent towards black people.
Furthermore if she were white the responses here would be full of sympathy/empathy and excuse"
True, very true, but those who really have not had to lead oppressive lives and second think every decision will always shut down the fact that many institutions and cultures still believe that people of colour and specifically black people are guilty by the darkness of their complexion primarily, and everything else comes second.

What a load of shite, FoundMyKey, telling those of us who disagree that we are racist and if it was a white woman we’d respond differently.

I wouldn’t, be it a white woman or an old woman. This person engineered the situation and plastered it all over social media hoping people like you gloss over actual facts and get outraged at her acting.