Hearing stories of moms who were questioned [1], reprimanded, or even asked to leave places [2] because of breastfeeding their babies in public [3] has become commonplace on social media. For Jessie Maher though, writing an open letter to someone who shamed her [4] for feeding her child wouldn't have been enough. When she was verbally assaulted by a man in a Target, she started recording him instead.

"Before the video started rolling he looked at me and said (very angrily), 'Can't you do that somewhere else? That's f**king disgusting. You are nasty' . . . I responded with, 'I am feeding my baby, and I have the right to do it here,'" Maher said in a Facebook post [5] accompanying the video. After being verbally slammed by the man several more times, Maher was approached by Target shoppers and staff who came to her aid — and then she started filming.

To see some of the encounter, watch the video above.