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Posted: 8/9/2014 8:00:47 PM EDT
Woman breast feeding her 3 month old cop tells her to stop, she doesn't, goes to get on a bus and the cop grabs her from behind for "resisting arrest" causing the baby to fall to the ground. There is another article that he was cleared of all charges. I know she didn't comply with Mr. Officers request and she didn't bow down to him for an arrest, but this is just all kinds of fucked up.

Suzanne Smith, Layla’s mother, had been sitting on a bench in Queens waiting for the bus when Layla began to insistently cry. Knowing that her baby was hungry Ms. Smith began to breastfeed her daughter. Witnesses at the scene report that she was then approached by a NYPD Officer, later identified as Michael Fitzsimmons, who requested that she stop feeding the baby in public as it was “indecent”. Ms. Smith refused to comply with the directive and told Officer Fitzsimmons that she wasn’t doing anything illegal. Officer Fitzsimmons again insisted that she stop and threatened to arrest her for indecent exposure. Ms. Smith calmly responded to the Officer that he could not arrest her because breastfeeding in public wasn’t against the law.

Link to story. http://nationalreport.net/nyc-police-officer-kills-baby-breastfeeding-argument/
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:01:44 PM EDT
[#1]
Really?

Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:02:18 PM EDT
[#2]
Dupe and fake
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:02:45 PM EDT
[#3]
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:03:24 PM EDT
[#4]
Isn't it legal to be topless in NYC? What a fucked up situation.

Yeah, that story is fake isn't it? Sad that it doesn't seem far fetched.
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:03:45 PM EDT
[#5]
I really expected the OP to be a 13er.
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:04:01 PM EDT
[#6]
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:04:59 PM EDT
[#7]
Dead babys , NYPD and a a bus stop . everything GD needs
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:05:56 PM EDT
[#8]
At least he went home safe at the end of his shift.
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:07:29 PM EDT
[#10]
I duped the snopes link
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:08:33 PM EDT
[#11]
Never mind.
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:12:10 PM EDT
[#12]
Derp level 87 achieved.  Congrats OP, congrats.
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:14:22 PM EDT
[#13]



My cousin (ditzy blonde female) posted this on FB the other day. I knew it was only a matter of time before it made its way here.
Link Posted: 8/9/2014 8:14:26 PM EDT
[#14]
Fake multiple dupe.
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