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Tyeesha Mobley says New York City took her children away from her for four months, but it “felt like four years.”
It all started one day last April, when the 29-year-old says she discovered that her youngest son, Keyshawn, had taken $10 from her purse. Wanting to teach him a lesson, she called 911.
Who better, Mobley thought, to teach her kids that stealing is “not the right thing to do” than the local police? Four officers responded to the call, and Mobley and the kids met them at a nearby gas station.
“Three of them was joking around with my son,” Mobley told The Huffington Post. One told Keyshawn, who was only 4 years old, that he would “end up in the police car” if he kept stealing.
But a fourth officer was upset that Mobley had called 911 in the first place.
“This is not our job,” Mobley says the unidentified officer griped.
“You black bitches don’t know how to take care of your kids,” the officer continued, according to a lawsuit Mobley has filed against the New York City Police Department and the city’s Administration for Children’s Services.
“You need to call the kids’ father, not us,” the officer added. “We can’t raise your kids. Why are you wasting our time? We aren’t here to raise your kid. Why don’t you take your fucking kid and leave!”
