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.

  • @RememberTheApollo_
    6•1 year ago

    Police step in front of cars quite a bit. There’s a lot of footage out there showing incidents of vehicles trying to flee for whatever reason and an officer deliberately positioning themselves in front of the vehicle.

    The vehicle heading towards the officer or striking the officer opens the door to escalated action on the part of the officers and that includes shooting and killing occupants.

    It’s straight up bullshit justifying the use of deadly force.

    This woman shoplifted. They have the car license plate, her on video conducting the theft with witnesses to the fact…she’s not going to get away with it. Yet the solution is to position oneself in front of the car, where any fool knows you might get struck, to kill someone over booze?

    You can blame the thief for being a dumbass, but fuck cops for escalating something like this to deadly force when they could’ve stepped out of the way and picked her up later. Fucking drop a couple rounds into the engine, it won’t make it more than a couple blocks after it dumps the oil and coolant out…

    • @bob_wileyEnglish
      3•1 year ago

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      • @RememberTheApollo_
        2•1 year ago

        No. I work on cars. They don’t live long without fluids. Nice try though.

        You’re still justifying placing an officer in harm’s way knowing escalation results in dead people. Your priorities are clear.

        Edit: and this is shoplifting. Not trying to stop a murderer or violent criminal. It doesn’t deserve setting someone up for a death sentence.

        • @bob_wileyEnglish
          4•1 year ago

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