(12-03-2018, 02:22 PM)GMDino Wrote: The headline in Newsweek doesn't even call it rape.  Just "forced to have sex".

Quote:New York City police officers are coming under fire after a "troubling" video surfaced showing them ripping a baby from the arms of a mother who had waited at a social services office for four hours seeking help, police and the woman's relatives said.


Jazmine Headley, 23, was arrested on charges of resisting arrest, committing an act in a manner injurious to a child, criminal trespass and obstruction of governmental administration, according to the NYPD.


A judge also issued a restraining order against her, barring her from coming near her baby.


Headley was booked into the Rikers Island jail pending a court hearing on Thursday.

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Jazmine Headley, 23, had her year-old son Damone was taken from her by force at a social service office in Brooklyn.

Two HRA peace officers were placed on modified duty as a result of the incident, Steven Banks, commissioner of the city Human Resources Administration, said in a statement Monday evening, saying he is "deeply troubled by the incident." Officers and staff will be trained "better" to diffuse situations "before the NYPD is called for assistance" and will also be offered refresher de-escalation trainings, Banks said.


"HRA centers must be safe havens for New Yorkers needing to access benefits to improve their lives," Banks said. "...The HRA Peace Officers who were involved in this incident are currently on leave, and they will be placed on modified duty when they return to work pending our investigation of what happened.”


James O'Neill, commissioner of the New York Police Department, described the video as "disturbing."


"The video, obviously, is disturbing. It's very disturbing to me," he said Monday afternoon. "I'm a dad. I have two kids. But being a cop is a really difficult job."


O'Neill said an investigation of the incident had been launched by the NYPD and Banks.


"We’re trying to get as much video as we can," O'Neill said. "We’ve got to see what led up to the incident. What were the actions of the people from HRA? What were the actions of our police officers?"


"We do get called to HRA facilities now and again," he said. "We have to figure out the protocols and work with HRA to figure out a better way to do things."


Headley's mother, who witnessed the arrest, claims city Human Resources Administration security guards and police officers were in the wrong and responsible for letting the incident escalate into pandemonium.


"I was devastated to see something like that happen to my daughter and grandson," Headley's mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, told ABC New York station WABC-TV.

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Jazmine Headley, 23, had her year-old son Damone was taken from her by force at a social service office in Brooklyn.

The office was crowded and there were no seats available when she and Headley arrived, Jenkins said. She said her daughter sat on the floor with her 1-year-old son, Damone, to keep him calm.


Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, said at a news conference Monday outside the social services office that the "horrific" incident should have never happened.


"We are better than the images we witnessed over the weekend," Adams said. "This should be a place where families come to regain their dignity and respect instead of having it ripped from them."

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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams address the press in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 10, 2018.

He demanded a full investigation by the NYPD and that all charges be immediately dropped against Headley.


"Something's terribly wrong when the most well-trained police department can't resolve a dispute with a mother and child without looking like the president's southern border strategy. We must do better," Adams said, referring to the Trump administration's practice of separating children from parents caught illegally crossing the border.


City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said in a tweet that the video is heartbreaking and "hard to watch."


"This is unacceptable, appalling ...," he wrote. "I’d like to understand what transpired and how these officers or the NYPD justifies this."

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This is unacceptable, appalling and heart breaking.

I’d like to understand what transpired and how these officers or the NYPD justifies this.

It’s hard to watch this video.
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There are 3 NYPD officers and a sgt. shown ripping a baby out of the hands of a mother in an ACS office. This was the best plan they could come up with? No threat to anyone, no emergency, just brutal disregard for the well-being of mother and child. https://www.facebook.com/nyashia.ferguson/videos/2165023130216850/ …


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NYPD officials said in a statement that they were called to the city Human Resources Administration office in Brooklyn just before 1 p.m. on Friday.


"The NYPD was called after office staff and HRA peace officers made unsuccessful attempts to remove this individual from the facility due to her disorderly conduct towards others, and for obstructing a hallway," police said in a statement.


Lisa Schreibersdorf, executive director of Brooklyn Defender Services, said her office has assigned an attorney to represent Headley. She said the woman went to the social services office to determine why day care vouchers for her child were suddenly cut off.


She said Headley took a day off from her job as a security guard in hopes or resolving the day care problems. 


She said Headley had been waiting at the office for four hours before the police were called on her.


"When people come to this office, they are here because they are in crisis," Schreibersdorf said. "Instead, they escalated the situation by bringing the police department in."


Both Adams and Schreibersdorf said the incident could have been avoided had officials at the office just went and found a chair for Headley or spoke to her calmly.


Jenkins said the HRA guards told her daughter she could not sit on the floor because she was blocking a hallway. When she refused to stand, a supervisor called the police, she said.


A cellphone video taken by Nyasia Ferguson, one of several taken by people who were also waiting at the office, shows at least three NYPD officers, including a sergeant, on top of Headley, who refused to let her child go.

(MORE: White parents with black babysitter who was reported by stranger say police visit 'scared' their kids)

"They're hurting my son! They're hurting my son!" Headley is heard screaming in the video.


One officer appeared to grab Damone and yank hard several times in an attempt to remove him from Headley's arms. A crowd of people gathered around the officers yelling for them to stop and attempting to explain that Headley had not been bothering anyone.


At one point, an officer is seen in the video pulling out a stun gun and appearing to point it at the crowd, ordering people to step back. The officer also appeared to point the stun gun at Headley, but it was never deployed, the video shows.
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"I was just disgusted and scared," Ferguson told WABC. "I thought the cops [are] supposed to help you -- they just straight up came and attacked the lady."


Police were eventually able to wrest the baby away and place Headley under arrest. The city Administration for Child Protective Services was initially called in to take custody of the child, who was later turned over to Jenkins.
The NYPD called the incident "troubling" and said the encounter was "under review." The statement said the review will include all available video that captured the incident.


The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office was also conducting an investigation of the incident. A spokesperson for the district attorney said prosecutors do not plan to proceed with the charges against Headley.


Headley was being held on an unrelated warrant from Mercer County, New Jersey, Schreibersdorf said.


The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said it was reaching out to New Jersey authorities on behalf of Headley "to expedite her release."

Police officials said the HRA guards were the ones who initially took Headley to the floor when she refused to leave.


"NYPD officers then attempted to place her under arrest. She refused to comply with officers' orders, and was then taken into custody," according to the NYPD statement.
Police said no one was hurt in the confrontation.


"These police officers were put in an impossible situation. They didn't create the dispute at the HRA office -- as always, they were called in to deal with the inevitable fallout when the rest of our City government fails in its task," Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, said in a statement.


He said the officers involved in the encounter with Headley were trying to protect the mother and child, while at the same time enforcing the law.


"The event would have unfolded much differently if those at the scene had simply complied with the officers' lawful orders," Lynch said. "The immediate rush to condemn these officers leaves their fellow cops wondering: when confronted with a similar impossible scenario, what do you want us to do? The answer cannot be 'do nothing.'"

(12-12-2018, 03:37 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Moral of the story:

Got a warrant for your arrest for being a criminal? Take your baby somewhere public and make a scene big enough/be uncooperative enough that the police get called. People will post a video on the internet of the police being bad (but not of you being an unreasonably and uncooperative person prior which caused it all to happen). Outrage will be had on the internet and all charges against you will be dropped. You get away with your crime. The End.

(12-12-2018, 03:37 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Moral of the story:

Got a warrant for your arrest for being a criminal? Take your baby somewhere public and make a scene big enough/be uncooperative enough that the police get called. People will post a video on the internet of the police being bad (but not of you being an unreasonably and uncooperative person prior which caused it all to happen). Outrage will be had on the internet and all charges against you will be dropped. You get away with your crime. The End.

(12-12-2018, 06:46 PM)fredtoast Wrote: What crime?  Letting a child sit on the floor?

(12-12-2018, 06:48 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Credit fraud in New Jersey, and then not showing up for court for it.

(12-12-2018, 07:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: And you are saying those charges will be dropped?  I'll bet you are wrong.



I was talking about the BS trumped up charges of resisting arrest, committing an act in a manner injurious to a child, criminal trespass and obstruction of governmental administration.

Quote:NJ Credit Card Fraud Charges Dropped Against Mom in Caught-on-Camera Clash With Police, Day After Judge Orders Release From Rikers

(12-12-2018, 08:13 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: What do you want to bet?

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Cops-Rip-Baby-Mothers-Arms-Jazmine-Headley-Video-502474451.html

Child abuse:

A grand jury has indicted the 2 white Louisiana police officers who—unprovoked—body slammed & beat a special needs Black child in middle school

The cop claimed the black child “reached for my gun.”

That was a lie

Let justice be served.pic.twitter.com/uocM02RpUS

— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) December 27, 2018

Quote:Charges dropped against police officers accused of raping teen under arrest

Rape charges were dropped Wednesday against two New York Police Department officers accused of raping a teen girl who had been arrested for alleged marijuana possession.



Detectives Richard Hall and Edward Martins initially faced 43 charges, including the rape and kidnapping of then-18-year-old Anna Chambers in 2017.


Chambers said at the time that the officers arrested her and her friends, but claimed that she was handcuffed and raped repeatedly in the police van by both officers.


The Brooklyn District Attorney's office, citing "unforeseen and serious credibility issues," said Wednesday that Hall and Martins will now face charges for taking bribes and official misconduct, according to BuzzFeed News.

Both officers resigned from the NYPD following the release of surveillance video showing them dropping Chambers off after the alleged rape. A rape kit also found DNA matching the officers'.


Chambers's case prompted New York lawmakers to pass a bill banning police officers from having sex with people in custody.


But the officers maintain that the sex with Chambers was consensual and that Chambers lied in her statements to prosecutors, according to New York's Pix11. The officers' attorney and the DA also cited the fact that sex between police and people in their custody was not outlawed in 2017.

The Hill has reached out to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office for comment.

Chambers's attorney told BuzzFeed News that he plans to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the now 20-year-old.
"She spoke out about what happened to her, and they shamed her, smeared her, demeaned her," the attorney, Michael David said. "And now they even dropped the charges."

Quote:A Texas police officer shot and killed a 44-year-old woman while trying to arrest her Monday night, authorities said.

A police spokesperson has since confirmed that the woman, identified as Pamela Turner, was not pregnant at the time of the shooting.

The unnamed officer involved in the shooting came across the woman while patrolling an apartment complex in the city of Baytown, some 27 miles east of Houston. He apparently recognized her from previous encounters and knew she had "outstanding warrants," according to a statement from Lt. Steve Dorris of the Baytown Police Department.

A struggle ensued when the officer attempted to arrest her for those warrants, Dorris said. The officer deployed his Taser on the woman, but, as he was trying to handcuff her, she apparently got hold of the device and used it on him.

(05-14-2019, 05:02 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Thought I'd but this one here:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/woman-accused-using-cops-taser-him-shot-dead-105300622--abc-news-topstories.html


Terrible, but when you grab for the Leo's weapons, you're pretty much saying "shoot me".

(05-15-2019, 09:02 AM)GMDino Wrote: "accused"

I'm just glad officers never lie about what happened when they were "afraid".

(05-15-2019, 09:05 AM)Au165 Wrote: There is video from someone watching across the street. You can see very clearly she gets a hold of the taser and you can hear it triggering. The use of force was definitely warranted.

Quote:A struggle ensued when the officer attempted to arrest her for those warrants, Dorris said. The officer deployed his Taser on the woman, but, as he was trying to handcuff her, she apparently got hold of the device and used it on him.

The officer drew his gun and fired multiple rounds at the woman, striking her at least once. The officer then attempted to render aid to the woman but she was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Dorris.

(05-15-2019, 09:51 AM)Aquapod770 Wrote: Thank god black people have such a great ally like GMDino  

(05-15-2019, 09:05 AM)Au165 Wrote: There is video from someone watching across the street. You can see very clearly she gets a hold of the taser and you can hear it triggering. The use of force was definitely warranted.

(05-15-2019, 09:16 AM)GMDino Wrote: Well he recovered from it quickly!

(05-15-2019, 10:10 AM)Dill Wrote: Was she shot while fleeing?