“Oxygen, get my oxygen,†the mother of four can be heard saying to the cops, as they propped her bare body against the wall.
A cop shouts, “OK, OK,†and darts out of the screen.
Neighbors videotaping from the stairwell started shouting as Stewart, who has severe asthma, fainted and fell to the floor.
“Yo, her mother got asthma …y’all wicked, y’all f—— wicked,†shouted one woman.
“Her asthma! Her asthma! Her asthma,†screamed another woman.
For approximately two minutes and 20 seconds, Stewart was bare-breasted in the hallway as additional police officers tramped up the stairs and through the hallway, glancing at her as they passed by.
When cops hauled Stewart’s two sons and two daughters out of the apartment and cuffed them, a female cop finally draped a white towel over Stewart’s exposed torso.
Reached at her home Friday, Stewart told the Daily News she was traumatized.
“It’s disgusting and embarrassing. I’ve been married 16 years. It took my husband 10 years to see my nakedness,†she said.
“I didn’t do nothing wrong,†she said, crying as she recounted the ordeal.
Though officers claim that Stewart 12-year-old daughter showed “visible†signs of abuse, Children’s Services found no evidence of that and returned the child to her mother. She was charged with assaulting a police officer, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon after struggling with police who were trying to take her from her mother.
Stewart’S four-year-old grandson was also allegedly pepper-sprayed in the face.
Stewart was charged with assaulting a police officer.
Her daughter, Diamond Stewart, 20, was charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child and criminal possession of a weapon.
Stewart’s son Kirkland Stewart, 24, was charged with resisting arrest.
The family is being represented by the Legal Aid attorney, Amy Rameau.
“They manhandled [Stewart] and behaved in a deplorable manner,†Rameau said. “She feels completely mortified. This is about human dignity.â€
