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.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world
    2443·
    10 months ago

    She got shot over driving at a police officer standing in front of her car. The fact that it escalated to that is a pretty bizarre series of events though.

    • jimbo@lemmy.world
      529·
      10 months ago

      She got shot over driving at a police officer standing in front of her car.

      Framed differently, a cop moved in front of her car for an excuse to shoot her. He could just as easily NOT have moved in front of the car and/or have taken a step back like any normally functioning human being would have done.

    • ox0r@jlai.luEnglish
      2911·
      10 months ago

      See, people are even defending it. Truly and absolutely fucked fucked fucked.

      • kava@lemmy.world
        62·
        10 months 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
            61·
            10 months 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
            41·
            10 months ago

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

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      Your take is scummy and delusional. I don’t envy the world you’ve constructed around you that’s so blind and ignorant towards reality