WATCH: Police Yanking 1-year-old From Mother's Arms Outrages Pols

BOERUM HILL, BROOKLYN -- A video of police officers trying to remove a woman's 1-year-old son from her grasp as they arrested her at a Fort Greene food assistance office went viral over the weekend, and has local politicians demanding her charges be dropped.

The video, posted by Facebook user Monae Sinclair on Friday, shows a woman now identified as Jazmine Headley, 23, on the ground at the Fort Greene Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) office as a group of officers try and wrestle the baby from her arms.

"They're hurting my son! They're hurting my son!" Headley yells as a crowd forms around her.

One officer repeatedly yanks the child as the group of onlookers yell and take videos on their cellphones. The same officer later waves a yellow taser at the crowd.

The dispute started, the witness said, after Headley sat on the office floor because there were no available chairs. Security guards then called police after a verbal dispute broke out when they asked Headley to get up and she refused, Councilman Stephen Levin said witnesses told him.

"According to the witness, Ms. Headley was not acting erratically or in any way a risk to her child," Levin said in a statement.

Headley was charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration and trespassing, the New York Times reports. She is now being held at Rikers Island, though local politicians and social justice groups are asking that she be released.

"Something's terribly wrong when the most well-trained police department can't resolve a dispute with a mother and child without looking like @RealDonaldTrump's southern border strategy," Borough President Eric Adams, who is planning a press conference at the SNAP office on Monday, posted on Twitter. "We must do better."

An NYPD spokesman said the department is investigating the incident and that the officers involved all remain on full-duty status, the Times reported.

This article will be updated as more information becomes available.

Video from Monae Sinclair, Facebook user; Photo from Shutterstock.