Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police | CNN
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The Blendon Township, Ohio police department released bodycam footage of an officer-involved shooting that took the life of Ta’Kiya Young. Young was accused of shoplifting by an employee and tried to leave the scene. CNN’s Miguel Marquez reports.

Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

  • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    868·
    1 year ago

    Is this where society is heading? Rampant theft resolved with murder to save corporations?

    To them, this probably sounds easier than lowering prices, reducing CEO’s millions in pay and propping up stock prices.

    • zaph@sh.itjust.works
      362·
      1 year ago

      The governor of Florida and presidential hopeful said looters will be shot on sight. So no, it’s not where we’re headed because we’ve passed that destination and it’s normal. Property is firmly above people.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      214·
      1 year ago

      There’s a reason why Militech and Arasaka are the biggest players in the cyberpunk rpg universe. Once corporatocracy reigns supreme and public funding is gone they reap profits off private security, as intended. We’re just now seeing the horizon of “defund the police” becoming “hire a PMC as your ‘police force’”

      • orrk@lemmy.world
        26·
        1 year ago

        this may surprise you, but the police started out as PMC union-busting operations

        • kautau@lemmy.world
          14·
          1 year ago

          Oh lol I’m totally aware. There was a time in history where striking didn’t mean you’d be fired but instead fired upon. Just sucks to see it now coming back full circle

      • LukeMedia@lemm.ee
        101·
        1 year ago

        Reminds me of the news in cyberpunk 2077 telling how “warning shots to the knee” became legal for police

    • grayman@lemmy.world
      137·
      1 year ago

      Yes. To get back to normality, we must pass through this extreme, which is the necessary counter to defunding and demonizing the police as opposed to holding only the bad ones responsible for their actions. We’ll be in this state until we remove qualified immunity. So it will probably take a while.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, sure, they increase prices because of “theft.” They’re honest corporations who would never increase prices for another reason like greed or price gouging.