Videos of New York City Police escorting a nine-year-old girl from the Museum of NAtural history made waves on Twitter on Friday.
On-lookers told the two officers “You are traumatizing this child” as they lead her down the museum steps.
The child allegedly was denied entry to the museum because she did not have a vaccination card.
The girl, dressed in a winter coat and a white hat, looked distressed and was helped into the back of a squad car.
NYPD arrested a 9 year old child in NYC because she didn’t have a vax card in a museum. We are destroying lives. This has to stop! pic.twitter.com/SaHfcHfVl7
— Yael Becker (@yael_becker) January 20, 2022
“Where are you taking her?” called one woman, who filmed the police on her cell phone.
“Just because she refused to show her papers… of her experimental gene therapy,” said the man recording.
Other footage shows five protestors who oppose the vaccination mandate being escorted down the museum’s steps in handcuffs by officers. They had been arrested inside the museum.
#BREAKING 5 Antimandate protesters arrested and 1 child walked out by police from Museum of Natural History. #HappeningNow pic.twitter.com/6tcjmE7seA
— Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) January 19, 2022
“This is your fight, NYPD,” yelled a man watching the crowd. The officer did not respond.
The videos, which appear to have been captured on Jan. 19, were widely denounced on Twitter.
New York – armed robbery a misdemeanor
No penalty for turnstile jumping
Decriminalize theft
But arrest a 9 year old child in a museum for no vaccine card?— Firewall Bill (@FirewallB) January 20, 2022
The police are not allowed to enforce mandates that have not been signed into law.where are all the lawyers jumping on this?
— rev1nra (@rev1nra) January 20, 2022
Police that do this deserve no one's support.
— Elizabeth (@Elizabe55101574) January 21, 2022
I suppose if she were robbing a gas station at gun point they’d just stand there and watch.
— America First (@americafirstA2) January 21, 2022
According to Oliya Scootercaster, a freelance journalist, the child’s mother was among those arrested for protesting the mandate at the museum.
Said mother of the child was placed under arrest, and the child was taken in a seperate NYPD car, the child did not appear to be under arrest. pic.twitter.com/VQDg9vZjfp
— Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) January 20, 2022
Scootercaster also reported that the museum has closed its front entrance hours after the protestors were arrested.
The child’s identity remains unknown. She was referred to as Jayla in a post sharing footage of her reunion with her family on Jan. 20.
Silence is compliance.
Those who stayed silent will not be forgotten.
Protect all children even if they are not yours.
JAYLA WE LOVE YOU 🥰😍✌🏽❤🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/lrl2hXsEfD— Joanna of the family Davidson (@FreeSou75177820) January 20, 2022
The Museum of Natural history made headlines this week after removing the statue of President Theodore Roosevelt, which critics had claimed depicted a “racial hierarchy.”
…so NYCPD are grabbing children with no communication with the parents as far as we know…?
Without custodial transparency of people ESPECIALLY MINORS AND THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY FOR THEM, the NYCPD are rapidly evolving to become the Red Guard of China, Blue Shirts of Taiwan, the White Hand of El Salvador and Nazi Party Brown Shirts of Kristallnacht. …bitter grapes, teeth set on edge and all that…
When a 9 year old has more guts than 99% of adults… she’s fighting for her generation and her children’s.
I gotta be honest here. If I was a cop, and was dumb enough to stay in New York City despite my oath to uphold the Constitution, I’d much rather be arresting 9-year-olds than facing off against cop killers.
Removal of Teddy Roosevelt from the natural history museum is like taking the colonel from KFC.
It is now time for another episode of Cult or Conspiracy Theory.
Does anyone else, think it odd that a man died in Minneapolis and in NYC : all hell broke loose, riots, statues were toppled and streets were painted ? But now, NYC residents are allowing their freedom to be restricted or taken away, their children treated like this and now…crickets. ( I have seen a couple but not major protest.) Please advise.
https://history.stanford.edu/people/kathryn-meyer-olivarius
Class warfare. In the 18th century, New Orleans created classes of people based on yellow fever. There were elite acclimated whites, every day acclimated whites, unacclimated everyday whites, acclimated black people, and lowest on the totem pole was unacclimated blacks. Black people have come so far in this country that elitists like Joy Reid, Don Lemon and Whoopi Goldberg get to behave like 18th century New Orleans segregationists everyday while complaining about the 1960s. This isn’t about left versus right or black versus right as it is the elitists manipulating the system for their benefit at the expense of the 99%s freedom, rights, and dignity.