Shocking video shows mother pleading with cops as they rip her BABY off her following disturbance at a food assistance center

This is the shocking moment police tried to prise a baby away from its mother in a food assistance center. The video shows Jazmine Headley, 23, sitting on the floor at a SNAP centre in Boerum Hill, New York. Taser-wielding police officers, who were called to reports of a woman being disorderly and blocking a hallway, can be seen trying to physically move the woman. At one point in the struggle, in order to arrest Headley, they tried to yank her one-year-old out of her arms as she cried: 'They're hurting my son... I'm begging you please.' Other people can be heard screaming in the background as one woman shrieked: 'Oh my God, oh my God, look what they're doing to us, look what they're doing to her.' One officer pulled out a stun gun as an onlooker shouted: 'There's a f***ing baby in her hands!' Headley's mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, said her daughter, who is a cleaner, was at the centre to collect daycare vouchers for a minder who looks after her son, Damone. She said Headley sat on floor because there were no chairs available and that a security guard called police after she refused to stand up. 'I was devastated to see something like that happen to my daughter and grandson - and how this officer yanking on my grandson to get him out of my daughter's arms,' she told ABC-7. The video was posted to Facebook where it sparked outrage from viewers. The woman who uploaded it wrote: '[The mom] made the security guard feel dumb so she called the cops on her and this was the outcome. 'She had her baby in her hands the whole time. I'm so f***ing disgusted with the NYPD.' City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called the incident 'unacceptable, appalling and heartbreaking.' He tweeted: 'I'd like to understand what transpired and how these officers or the NYPD justifies this. It's hard to watch this video.' State Attorney General-elect Letitia James, released a statement saying: 'No mother should have to experience the trauma and humiliation we all witnessed in this video.' She added: 'Being poor is not a crime. The actions of the NYPD in this video are appalling and contemptible. 'A full investigation must be conducted immediately, and the results should be made public so there is a transparent accounting of how this horrific situation occurred. 'All involved officers, including the assigned supervisor, should be assigned desk duty pending the investigation results.' The NYPD said it is investigating the 'troubling' incident. Headley has been charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration and criminal trespassing. She faces court on Thursday.

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