Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield.

It was unclear Saturday whether the Blendon Township Police Department has adopted a use-of-force continuum policy, which would outline measures that must be exhausted before lethal force can be used.

The video of the Aug. 24 shooting, released Friday, shows Young in her car in a parking space as a police officer orders her to exit the vehicle. A second officer is seen drawing his firearm and stepping in front of the car, despite a department policy advising officers to get out of the way of an approaching vehicle instead of firing their weapon.

  • @Dadifer
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    801 year ago

    Every cop that doesn’t protest against this behavior is a bastard. Silence is complicence.

    • @Kbobabob
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      351 year ago

      Lol, cops only care about themselves and other cops.

      • matchphoenix
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        191 year ago

        Thank god for police unions, otherwise this cop might have had to face some responsibility for their actions

        • @Kbobabob
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          31 year ago

          Nah. The government would pay any fines and the cop either gets a vacation until it blows over or gets another job in another county.

    • @TheJims
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      71 year ago

      Silence leads to violence

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      It seriously makes me consider becoming a cop, a job I would loathe, just to talk some sense into my coworkers.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        The toxicity is self perpetuating. Anyone with a semblance of decency wouldn’t become a cop, so you just have more and more of these racist fascist assholes breeding more hatred and thugary. Any ‘good cop’ quickly realizes it’s a cesspool and leaves, or succumbs to the bastardization.