What Happened To Jazmine Headley?

New York City mom arrest lead to protest. The NYPD pulled her son away from her.

Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is very vocal about the cost of living in New York City.

The incoming freshman lawmaker is offended by New York City's attempt to bring Amazon into the region. She said that New York City residents have terrible water service, the cost of living is too high and people can't afford living in slums. People of color suffer the worse when it comes to income inequality. The thought of bringing in a heartless corporation into the heart of New York to offer crappy pay and no opportunities is the very reason why she vows to take on corporate greed.

This issue has caught her attention. Matter of fact, Black Lives Matter has an ear. The New York Police Department is pretty brutal to people of color.

A 23-year old mother who was violently separated from her baby became a controversy. This happened at the New York City public assistance center in Brooklyn. It has attracted national attention and condemnation at mayor Bill de Blasio.

Jazmine Headley was sitting on the floor with her son when a security officer got into a heated argument with her.

The security officer was upset that she didn't comply to her order to stand up. So she contacted the New York Police Department to remove her from the facility,

The person who filmed the encounter, Monae Sinclair saw what happened.

Take it away.



The video begins with Headley screaming "They're hurting my son! They're hurting my son!"

A female sergeant and three officers, two of who appeared to be women surrounded Headley and attempted to pull the child away. Then one officer attempts to yank the child out of her arms.

Other cops come by and then it caught attention of onlookers who screamed at the cops to stop hurting the child.

The NYPD said that Headley was told numerous times to leave "numerous times." She refused.

Despite the encounter, they arrested her and placed her in custody of Rikers Island. She was charged with resisting arrest, acting in a matter that imposes injury on a child and obstructing government affair and trespassing. She refused medical treatment for her and the child.

She spent the weekend in Rikers before the District Attorney decided to drop all charges.

Thankful to be alive. This is what NYPD does to poor people. They treat us like shit.

The district attorney's office says it would've allowed her to return home as she waited out her court date, but they couldn't do so because of an outstanding warrant for her arrest from Mercer County, New Jersey. Headley was wanted there after failing to show up for an arraignment in July 2017 for charges of credit card theft and trafficking in personal identifying information.

She's now being released from Rikers Island on her own recognizance, meaning she has to promise to show up for future court dates.

Tuesday morning, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez dropped charges stemming from the incident, saying in a statement on Twitter that he was "horrified by the violence depicted in the video and immediately opened an investigation into this case."