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Serious question... Is it really necessary to whip out a boob the second a baby gets hungry? Are thy not able to wait for 1/2 hour? I really have no idea
Originally posted by poet1b
shine.yahoo.com...
Remans reportedly began to inconspicuously breastfeed her daughter Luka at the table when a female supervisor approached and asked her to leave. “She said, ‘Please leave immediately, you are disturbing the members,'" Neijens told the New York Post.
He intervened on his wife’s behalf, telling the supervisor that the feeding would not take long, but Remans was told to finish in the restroom.
“You don’t ask a person to have lunch in the restroom — why would you ask a baby to have lunch there?” Neijens said.
Shortly after the confrontation, the Greenburgh Police Department arrived. The couple told the Post that Detective Scott Harding yelled, “Close the doors!” and other diners were asked to leave the terrace.
“He was walking as if he was acting in a Western movie,” Neijens said. “He had one hand on his gun, one hand on his Taser.”
The officer reportedly told the couple that they were trespassing and that other patrons at the club believed them to be terrorists because of the black backpack the couple had in their possession. “In Sri Lanka, babies are used by terrorists,” the cop allegedly said.
When Neijens revealed his State Department-issued ID, the cop softened. “You have to understand, this club has had terrorism threats in the past,” he told the diplomat.
Softened? I bet that cop almost wet himself. I laughed my behind off when I read that.
Welcome to the police state of modern terrorism.
Anything you do can be called terrorism these days, even breast feeding a baby.
This is how low we have sunk.
edit on 1-7-2013 by poet1b because: Oops, forgot to add link, and wrong nationality of couple
Originally posted by Bluesma
reply to post by Kody27
If I am remembering correctly what the article said, it was the Belgian guy who described the cop as acting like a cowboy?
I have heard that before from Europeans on vacation in the US- like when some friends were pulled over.
We are used to seeing them walking with a hand on their gun, and with a body language of authority, but the europeans really find this strange. Their police make effort to seem non-threatening.
Originally posted by JohnBlack
Take away the badge and gun and you will see nothing but an apologetic child.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by Kody27
so people should not wear black backpacks?
Unless they are willing to get shot by any small town trigger happy cop.
A cop shouldn't put his hand on his weapon unless there is a reasonable possibility that it will need to be drawn.
A couple sitting in a restaurant where the woman is breast feeding a baby is not threatening situation.
Extreme uses of the law is getting way out of hand. This country needs to put these wanna be cowboys back in their place.
Originally posted by Kody27
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by Kody27
so people should not wear black backpacks?
Unless they are willing to get shot by any small town trigger happy cop.
A cop shouldn't put his hand on his weapon unless there is a reasonable possibility that it will need to be drawn.
A couple sitting in a restaurant where the woman is breast feeding a baby is not threatening situation.
Extreme uses of the law is getting way out of hand. This country needs to put these wanna be cowboys back in their place.
Let's define some terms here so maybe you'll have a chance at gaining an accurate frame of reference..
Context -
"1: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
2 : the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs : environment, setting"
Yes, if you take each incident individually from this situation and separate them one by one, it doesn't make sense that the cop did what he did, or that he was even called in the first place.
But, in reality, there is context to the situation. It clearly says that that specific club had terrorist threats before, and that the cop has known terrorist to use babies as a distraction and/or defense. These two things combined clearly indicate that the cop felt as if he were entering a different situation altogether.
I don't blame the cop, however, I do blame whoever called the cops in the first place. I understand it's not preferred in some places to breastfeed your baby, but is it completely necessary to call the damn police? I mean there are murders and rapes going on right now, and you're gonna call the emergency protection services on a titty?
Originally posted by smurfy
Originally posted by stumason
reply to post by Dominar
Personally, I think what the Belgian guy said was a bit racist. So, if you look European you cannot be a terrorist? Only brown people, I take it?
Much agreement there, and restaurants are basically canteens. Aside from that case in point, in a cafe recently I was sitting with my wife opposite, the next row up and behind my wife, a woman was glaring at me, and I thought, WTF is that all about? I had no clue that she was feeding a baby, as all I could see was a face, but the glaring went on and eventually I said to my wife what was going on with this glaring, I don't know her, my wife though had long copped on before we had even sat down, and conveyed the message. So, what are you supposed to do in a restaurant? put a bag over your head in case your are looking the wrong way?
Originally posted by MysterX
Originally posted by Kody27
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by Kody27
so people should not wear black backpacks?
Unless they are willing to get shot by any small town trigger happy cop.
A cop shouldn't put his hand on his weapon unless there is a reasonable possibility that it will need to be drawn.
A couple sitting in a restaurant where the woman is breast feeding a baby is not threatening situation.
Extreme uses of the law is getting way out of hand. This country needs to put these wanna be cowboys back in their place.
Let's define some terms here so maybe you'll have a chance at gaining an accurate frame of reference..
Context -
"1: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
2 : the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs : environment, setting"
Yes, if you take each incident individually from this situation and separate them one by one, it doesn't make sense that the cop did what he did, or that he was even called in the first place.
But, in reality, there is context to the situation. It clearly says that that specific club had terrorist threats before, and that the cop has known terrorist to use babies as a distraction and/or defense. These two things combined clearly indicate that the cop felt as if he were entering a different situation altogether.
I don't blame the cop, however, I do blame whoever called the cops in the first place. I understand it's not preferred in some places to breastfeed your baby, but is it completely necessary to call the damn police? I mean there are murders and rapes going on right now, and you're gonna call the emergency protection services on a titty?
In this particular situation, there is no reason to have done what was done to this young family simply because of a possible wishy-washy 'terrorist' threat to the club at some point in history...there were actual bombs planted (by 'someone') on three underground tube stations on 7/7...i can GUARANTEE you if there was a young family breastfeeding their baby in ANY of them, previous terror explosions or not, NO policeman or policewoman would ever dream of accusing them of terrorism purely because they happened to be there feeding their baby and carrying a nappy sack!
Not a chance of it.
So yes, the cop was being an arse, and abusing his powers, especially the abuse of questionable terror legislation in an attempt to browbeat the couple into compliance even when the cop, the management of the club and the couple themselves all knew this was only being done to them because they had the 'nerve' to naturally feed their baby and stay within their legal and lawful rights when they refused to cease feeding the child.
Cop got sore that 'uppety' foreigners wouldn't obey an unreasonable order to comply, resulted in the cop's abuse of terror legislation to get what he wanted, no doubt about it.
Is it really necessary to whip out a boob the second a baby gets hungry?
Originally posted by Biigs
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
These people would rather see a baby go hungry than possibly become victims of seeing a partial breast?
Apparently it was nothing to do with the boob.
Backpack *could contain* some sort of terrorist equipment, since a bomber took a shoe bomb on a plane we have to assume anyone waring shoes is a potential terrorist.
Terrorists also have names, so anyone with a name is a also a terror suspect....
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by stumason
God Fearing America? Cops are jerks everywhere in the US .. his reaction probably had more to do with having to go on that call for sheer annoyance than "fearing god"