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.

  • Flying Squid
    9•1 year ago

    If only cops weren’t rooted to the ground and could jump out of the way of a car…

    • @Ilovethebomb
      -20•1 year ago

      It would be ideal if she didn’t try and kill him in the first place though.

      • @[email protected]English
        18•1 year ago

        Always interesting that people demand average citizens behave more reasonably than so-called trained police. It’s like you accept the presumption that any cop is likely to overreact in murder, therefore the onus is on US not to escalate situations. Interesting how the apologists don’t think cops bear any responsibility for de-escalation.

          • @[email protected]English
            12•1 year ago

            You’re being disingenuous Monday morning qb’ing. Police are supposedly trained in de-escalation. I am not excusing the behavior, but I can understand a random untrained citizen having fear and unpredictable bad decision-making in a situation like this. Whereas the cops absolutely have countless other things they could do that are calmer and more de-escalating.

            Ultimately, basic theft isn’t worth death. The problem is that cops have unilaterally decided it is completely unacceptable to not listen to them, up to death. They could have followed her. They could have let her go. There are numerous alternatives that could have happened. Cops in America have endlessly shown they are trigger happy twitchy and rushing to escalate.

            The burden is on trained police to behave better than a random person does. This doesn’t excuse her behavior. But the cops are NOT justified either.

            I understand this nuance is lost on most.

            • @Ilovethebomb
              1•1 year ago

              This doesn’t excuse her behavior. But the cops are NOT justified either.

              You’re far more level headed than most of the commenters here. Yeah, the police could definitely have handled this better as well.

              • @Cabrio
                0•1 year ago

                Given your capacity for intelligence you’re probably below the max IQ limit for hiring US cops, you should apply, you get to shoot innocent unarmed civilians for misdemeaner crimes while pretending that your own life threatening actions were their fault and you still get the advantage of other braindead troglodytes like yourself defending your murder of a non shoplifter for non compliance, for a crime with no death penalty.

                Judge Dredd wasn’t a guidebook on policing you deranged bootlicking homunculus.

          • @Jerb322
            6•1 year ago

            You keep saying that. "Trying to run over ". No fucking way you could convince me that she wanted to run over that cop! If she wanted him dead, why didn’t she just punch it? Floor the peddle and turn the wheel toward him.

      • Flying Squid
        10•1 year ago

        How about maybe the police firstly don’t escalate the situation to that point because she was just accused of shoplifting and secondly don’t jump in front of her car in the first place?