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.

  • @thantik
    -6•1 year ago

    Yeah, because that’s what we do when someone is criminally resisting, we…let them go! Are you listening to yourself objectively right now?

    Oh there’s a guy who just robbed a bank and shot 2 tellers? Don’t shoot him, just let him go. We’ll just put out a warrant for his arrest and pick him up later!

    Wut…

    There was risk in letting her drive home. That part is clear. She was already willing to attempt running over an officer. Your argument is that the officer shouldn’t have stepped in front of the car? Seriously? She was told to get out of the car. Not to leave. The idea behind stepping in front of the car is that most people would have the sense enough NOT to try and run someone over with that car. She didn’t. She suffered those consequences.

    If a police officer told you to step out of the car and they had someone in front, would you attempt to run him over? I sure as fuck wouldn’t. But because he’s a police officer and you’ve already made up your mind about him, you don’t mind excusing HIS life, and you’ll make all sorts of arguments for hers.

    It’s pretty clear that this argument isn’t in good faith from you. You’re not willing to use logic and a baseline of morality on a level playing field across all actors in this event. You’ve discounted her actions, and aren’t willing to even budge on the argument that she shouldn’t do what she did.

    Life lesson kids: If you don’t want to get killed by a police officer…don’t attempt to run over them with your car.

    • Flying Squid
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah, because that’s what we do when someone is criminally resisting, we…let them go!

      She was accused of shoplifting.

      Jesus Christ.

    • @dragonflyteaparty
      1•1 year ago

      But again. It isn’t policy to always immediately go after a fleeing person. You are ignoring that she steered away from the officer and he deliberately put himself in front of her. You are ignoring that she went incredibly slowly. The cops, plural, as in other cops who could have gotten in their cars and created a barricade, were also present. There were numerous things they could have done rather than murder her. But I guess it’s only the murder victim who did anything wrong and the cops are perfect.

      • @thantik
        2•1 year ago

        Listen to yourself right now. Not only are you putting words in my mouth with the “cops are perfect” shtick, but you’re completely dismissing the womans actions. You’re making an excuse for literally everything she did. Meanwhile in my replies, I’ve mentioned and even suggested ways police could have done things better.

        All cops are bad. I agree with that. But I don’t agree with “All cops are bad all the time in every situation whatsoever”.