http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/01/56239.htm

Quote:NEW YORK CITY, NY -- A family trying to ride the MTA train in Brooklyn were aggressively attacked by NYPD officers after the mom was suspected of attempting to board the train without paying the fare.

Marilyn Taylor claims that she and her kids were preparing to board a Manhattan-bound L train on Aug. 9. She was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller and holding her 4-year-old's hand. The father, Dehaven McClain, carried the 5-month-old close to his chest.

NYPD officers allegedly saw the woman push her stroller through a service entrance. Officers pepper sprayed the woman and misted the entire family. Marilyn Taylor says she fell to her knees and nearly off the subway platform.

"The pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting," the complaint states. The children needed medical attention because of the lingering effects of the spray. The mother and father have suffered ongoing eye injuries.

Taylor claims that the officers have continued to harass her family. "Since the incident, plaintiffs have suffered repeated harassment from the officer defendants, forcing them to avoid the MTA through the Atlantic Avenue stop," the complaint states.

Yes, Podice are your friends.

Even if she WAS trying to board without paying, getting maced is the answer? Sounds like transit cops with not enough to do. Either that or their power has gone to their heads.

But - it is NY, so this can hardly be a big surprise. A lot of people there seem to have the proclivity that when they get a little bit of power, they want to see it amplified. It starts at the top with the whiney rich-boy with little-big-man syndrome who wants to control everybody's lives.

You will be shocked, but I agree this was over the line. However I doubt that the cops just walked up to her and immediately pepper sprayed her from the outset.

A lot of New Yorkers need a good macing.

(04-05-2013 02:22 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  A lot of New Yorkers need a good macing.

Apparently a good many of them are on the police force...

Either these cops are a$$holes and deserve to be fired, or we aren't getting the total story here.

(04-05-2013 03:47 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Either these cops are a$$holes and deserve to be fired, or we aren't getting the total story here.

probably both.

(04-05-2013 03:52 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(04-05-2013 03:47 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Either these cops are a$$holes and deserve to be fired, or we aren't getting the total story here.

probably both.

My vote too.

We seldom get the whole story.
Have to deal with what we have.

Hey have you applied to be a police officer? No? then who are you to complain! /MidnightBlueGold

If we cannot complain, some of us would have little else.

But if we don't pepper spray the babies then Al Qaeda will start to use them as bombs!

Where is the TSA when you need them

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(04-05-2013 05:53 PM)ImMoreAwesomeThanYou Wrote:  Where is the TSA when you need them

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Flew to Fort Worth and back today. Don't get me started on those idiots.

As others have pointed out, there is probably much more to this story than what we're receiving.

However, with the information as presented, I do have to say that these cops did not use their authority in the best way. Maybe just grab the mother...? Perhaps...? But what do I know? I'm not a cop or was I there.

Didn't seem like she had a chance to resist pushing one child and holding onto the other's hand.
Here again, seeing it and just hearing about it may be two different things.

(04-05-2013 04:29 PM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  Hey have you applied to be a police officer? No? then who are you to complain! /MidnightBlueGold

OMG! THAT IS SOOOO FUNNY!