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.

  • Imotali
    6·
    2 years ago

    It’s also a massive waste of money and resources that could be used to fight actual, real crime.

    • Rev3rze@lemdit.comEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I’m guessing the time and ammo it took to kill her amounts to more dollars lost than she could ever shoplift for. Did the store get their money back? No? Then what the fuck was the point? Who was actually helped that day?

      The point of having police is to make society livable. This seems to be the opposite of that.

    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 years ago

      But that’s dangerous… Real criminals might fight back. Some cops delicate flowers might get hurt.

      • Imotali
        1·
        2 years ago

        I consider cops being “removed from duty” a net benefit to society so…