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.

  • alp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1647·
    1 year ago

    You can’t justify her running from the cops, that was wrong but no where near as wrong as killing her for doing so

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      369·
      1 year ago

      I mean, I kinda can. We’ve all seen too many videos where police officers pull people out of cars in these situations, she was pregnant… People of color end up dead on the ground outside of that car even if they did nothing wrong, all the time. Even more commonly they get thrown around and beaten. Pregnant woman don’t normally want to get thrown around or beaten.

        • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I want to posit first that this is a satirical answer, and I am not encouraging this in the slightest, just that this might be the “cornered logic” equation that is given to suspects being confronted by police:

          Plan B: You whip out a pistol you bought from the gun store, shoot all of the cops that are about to shoot you, and drive off to go live in a different state so it’s hard to follow you.

          I would hope and predict that most people committing petty crimes like shoplifting or drugs would not want to hurt anyone, much less a cop, but when that is THE ONLY answer you can give that has a strong chance of survival in the face of the articles everyone has seen, it begs the need for a different answer - one in which there is ZERO chance of a cop killing an unarmed person for petty crime, and attempted evasion of arrest for said petty crime.

    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
      315·
      1 year ago

      Uhh no I can 100% justify running from cops. Some of them are totally unhinged with a total lack of accountability.

    • EndlessApollo@lemmy.world
      173·
      1 year ago

      This incident is exactly why that’s justified. Her life was in danger, that cop was clearly itching for a reason to kill her or he wouldn’t have stepped in front of the car. She ran because it was probably her best chance of not getting killed

    • RobMyBot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      When the police are increasingly known and proven to kill people for next to no reason at all, it’s quite difficult to blame a person for being afraid of them when confronted.

      • alp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        12·
        1 year ago

        Your best chance regardless of race or economic status is to comply so they don’t get hot headed, not to mention its the legally correct thing to do

    • Apollo
      1·
      1 year ago

      The comment you are replying to literally justified it, did you read another comment and reply to the wrong one?