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.

  • kautau@lemmy.world
    214·
    1 year ago

    There’s a reason why Militech and Arasaka are the biggest players in the cyberpunk rpg universe. Once corporatocracy reigns supreme and public funding is gone they reap profits off private security, as intended. We’re just now seeing the horizon of “defund the police” becoming “hire a PMC as your ‘police force’”

    • orrk@lemmy.world
      26·
      1 year ago

      this may surprise you, but the police started out as PMC union-busting operations

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 year ago

        Oh lol I’m totally aware. There was a time in history where striking didn’t mean you’d be fired but instead fired upon. Just sucks to see it now coming back full circle

    • LukeMedia@lemm.ee
      101·
      1 year ago

      Reminds me of the news in cyberpunk 2077 telling how “warning shots to the knee” became legal for police