'Is this what you signed up for, NYPD?' Child sobs as squad of cops boot family without vax papers

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From “we’re all in this together” to “papers, please,” the coronavirus pandemic has evolved from a common enemy into a perfectly good excuse to ruin a family’s night out by threat of arrest.

Video posted to Twitter appears to show the New York Police Department (NYPD) walking up to a family at a dine-in restaurant and demanding they either produce proof of their COVID-19 vaccines or leave the eatery. The video opens with a clip of a scared-looking young boy crying and attempting to leave as ordered.

It is about then that a woman off-screen, presumably the one filming the encounter, begins berating the police (there were a lot of them present) for what they were doing. At one point one of the officers in the front tries to bite back at the woman, but she’s absolutely not having it and she lets him have it.

Watch: (** Language warning)

What a lovely new world we are living in when you go out for a meal and a squad of police barge in, persecute a little boy then demand to see everyone else’s papers. This is the vax passport world so many are begging for. #NotAboutAVirus #NOVAXPASSPORTS pic.twitter.com/ZQFnybs4ly

— Cyn Clagar (@cynclagar) December 27, 2021

“Is this what you signed up for? Is this what justice looks like?” the off-screen woman demands of the officers as they stand there. “Is this what you dreamed of when you wanted to be a cop?”

Other diners can be seen and heard in the background, and the police proudly announce that if those without vaccine cards leave voluntarily, no charges will be pressed against them. How generous.

Twitter users had mixed reactions regarding the scene. Some blamed the officers for following unpopular orders, while some blame the family for knowingly putting a small child in such a situation:

The family put this little boy in this position. Fine if they want to but to scare their child this way? This is awful.

— Micky (@germaknee) December 28, 2021

BLAME the people that called the cops on the family,the cops didn’t show up on their own volition. Most of you are blaming the wrong people. Don’t blame the cops. The cops are polite and said if you don’t have the correct documentation you just have to leave we won’t arrest you.

— Visuo Wrathmare, Emperor of the known universe. (@Visuo_Wrathmare) December 28, 2021

Save the outrage and tears for when the virus kills off a large portion of someone’s family. The vaccination is to protect the public and if the city/town mandates it, so be it. This kid could have had the party at his house and I suspect cops wouldn’t have shown up.

— Crossfire Hurricane (@pressp_photo) December 28, 2021

One’s freedom depending on whether or not they got a vaccination is scary. And the fact that you’re ok with it is scarier.

— Mary Veldhouse (@maryjveld) December 28, 2021

To protect and serve their masters not the people . what next take them away to quarantine camps

— shadebathing (@shadebathing) December 28, 2021

There is no law to obscene for police to follow to a tee . But you already new that . “Hey man I’m just doing my job” . As they load you into the trains

— JThemis71 (@Themis71J) December 28, 2021

NYC has rules regarding indoor dining. If the boy’s family took him into a restaurant knowing he is unvaccinated and they are breaking the rules then shame on them.

— Tambra Stewart (@TambraStewart18) December 28, 2021

This is no life purpose for law enforcement. They are saving no one by doing this. They are instituting tyranny.

— Swimmingly (@backatchaslick) December 27, 2021

The fact that NYPD are following these illegal and unconstitutional orders is disgusting. They have no shame.

— Mary Veldhouse (@maryjveld) December 28, 2021

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