From [HERE] Police officers in a Harlem subway station on Friday night were seen forcibly dragging a child away from a woman claiming to be his mother, apparently for the offense of selling snacks on the train.

Witness Shaquan Jenkins tells Gothamist he was on his way home to Jersey City when he saw police remove the unidentified boy from the train at the 145th Street station.

Jenkins said he had seen the boy moving through the subway car selling candy shortly before police officers grabbed him. He says a woman who identified herself as the boy's mother repeatedly told police "that's my son."

One video shared by Jenkins on Twitter showed the distraught boy struggling with police officers as subway riders angrily object.

"We're gonna let your son go when you speak to me," one officer, who is not wearing a protective mask, tells the woman who identified herself as the boy's mother.

"I'm speaking to you now!" the woman replies.

"You're not speaking to me," the officer says to the woman.

Jenkins said that bystanders were trying to help by gathering the candy the boy had dropped on the subway platform, but that police threw it in the garbage.

"They looked like kidnappers, like they were trying to kidnap the little boy," Jenkins said. "I felt outraged. It’s a little boy. Can’t they talk to him on his level and say it’s not safe, go home? Why did they need three officers to take him to the precinct?"

A second video shows more officers joining the others to bring the boy up the subway stairs. Some of the officers can be seen wearing protective surgical masks, others are not.

"He’s crying, as they try to close the train doors, they called down extra police officers," Jenkins said. "It looked like they trampled him in a pile."

The NYPD Transit Police maintains a precinct in the station, and Jenkins says he followed the officers as they brought the boy there.

It's unclear if the boy was further detained in the precinct. The NYPD did not immediately respond to inquiries about the incident. [MORE]

It’s also unclear where the NYPD cops’ authority comes from. No citizen has the right to initiate an unprovoked act of violence against another person.

Question here: can you delegate a right to someone that you don’t have? where does authority, the right to rule others, come from? Asked differently, you don’t have the right to initiate unprovoked acts of force against other people - so how can you delegate or authorize another person to do such things? How did police acquire such super-human powers?

Undeceiver Larken Rose states, “Despite all of the complex rituals and convoluted rationalizations, all modern belief in “government” rests on the notion that mere mortals can, through certain political procedures, bestow upon some people various rights which none of the people possessed to begin with. The inherent lunacy of such a notion should be obvious. There is no ritual or document through which any group of people can delegate to someone else a right which no one in the group possesses, And that self-evident truth, all by itself, demolishes any possibility of legitimate “government.

The average person believes that “government” has the right to do numerous things that the average individual does not have the right to do on his own. The obvious question then is, How, and from whom, did those in “government” acquire such rights? How, for example – whether you call it “theft” or “taxation”– would those in “government” acquire the right to forcibly take property from those who haw earned it? No voter has such a right. So how could voters possibly have given such a right to politicians? All modern statism is based entirely on the assumption that people can delegate rights they don’t have.” [MORE]