Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police
Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police
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.
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The video totally clears the police, as I expected. She thought she had the right to run over a police officer to avoid getting arrested for a very minor crime. She chose to put his life at risk by using her car as a weapon and she paid the price for it. Horrible, horrible decision by her.
Alright time to run out into traffic and start shootin in self defense.
The police have the authority to stop cars, you don't.
So police can run into traffic and start shootin in self defense
legally? no morally? no realsitically? yes
I mean…
Ah, yes. Because killing a pregnant woman over groceries is totally the right move
How do those boots taste?
They didn't kill a pregnant woman over groceries, as the video shows. She was shot while attempting to run over a police officer.
He knew what he was doing. He intentionally put himself in harm’s way and escalated the situation. So fucking what if she ran? They have her tags, they can easily trace her vehicle and find her residence, and take action when it isn’t directly putting lives at risk.
Oh no, she got away with some groceries, big fucking deal. Better than murder.
Fuck that cop, and fuck your pitiful attempt at justifying this.
That is not what this video shows. This video shows a police officer who ran in front of a car and shot a pregnant woman over some groceries.
It's exactly what the video shows. These gymnastics are an embarrassment to people that what police reform, you make is look like idiots.
These gymnastics are an embarrassment to people that what police reform, you make is look like idiots.
If self awareness was a disease you'd be the healthiest person alive.
What are you even trying to say?
Lol. He's saying you're not self-aware.
Need to brush up on that reading comprehension, do we?
Police reform in this case could be as simple as "don't jump in front of a car over a gallon of milk."
Clearly wasn't trying to run over him, was clearly fleeing.
An absolutely essential part of police work is to de-escalate situations. If someone is acting erratically and pose a potential danger they're supposed to be trained to calm them down, control the situation, and get it under control with minimal use of force. In America the work of the police is, to be fair, made harder by the fact that firearms are everywhere - situations can escalate very quickly.
However, if what starts as a pregnant lady shoplifting ends with you shooting her dead, chances are you did not do a very good job de-escalating the situation. Rather on the contrary - you escalated it a whole fucking lot.
This has nothing to do with any functional notion of police work. This is just state sponsored terror.
The car was moving very slowly. The cop had a choice. Get out of the way and arrest her later, or go straight to extra-judicial execution. He made the wrong choice.
He could just not stand in front of the car. Write down the license plate and let her go. Or just let her go. Better than killing someone.
No license plate on the car, the thief came prepared.
That means there's no other way to identify her, even with body cam and store cameras.
She'd be in Mexico by morning.
Then let her go. People steal for a reason
Cop used his body as a lever to play chicken with her and get to shoot.
He could have never stepped there, recorded her plate, and arrested her after.
If she had cornered him with the car at no fault of his own that would be different. But he chose to be in front.
How’s that boot taste?