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.

  • kava@lemmy.world
    72·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think /u/Ilovethebomb was trying to defend it. He’s just adding context. She didn’t only get shot for shoplifting. The shoplifting initiated an interaction with the police that escalated. She started driving away and the cops tried to physically stop the car with their bodies. So one of the cops panicked and shot.

    Of course there are many issues - why were the cops pointing guns at her in the parking lot while she was in the car? Certainly didn’t help with de-escalation. I hope the cop who fired the shot and is under investigation gets criminal charges.

      • troglodytis@lemmy.world
        103·
        1 year ago

        Where this occurred, calling her innocent is actually true, because she had yet to be convicted in a court of law.

        That doesn’t mean she did nothing wrong.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        Fun fact: she wasn’t the shoplifter. They didn’t find the stolen goods in her car.