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.
No. They've had their chances. None can leave without rigorous testing first. We don't want to end up with another America just in a different location.
She got shot over driving at a police officer standing in front of her car. The fact that it escalated to that is a pretty bizarre series of events though.
She got shot over driving at a police officer standing in front of her car.
Framed differently, a cop moved in front of her car for an excuse to shoot her. He could just as easily NOT have moved in front of the car and/or have taken a step back like any normally functioning human being would have done.
Shoplifting is not a death sentence. Driving away from police is illegal, but not a death sentence. She's trying to leave? Fine, step to the side, take her plate number, and put out a warrant. At no time was it necessary for him to pull out his gun.
But she didn't even commit shoplifting, she was wrongfully accused and the car rolled after she was dead and her corpse failed to keep pressure on the brake.
Literally the only thing she did was fail to comply with demands to exit the vehicle and turn the steering wheel in an attempt avoid the officer before being shot.
So what she did was not listen violent and angry people who have full privilege to shoot indiscriminately and was shot for it.
I can pretend she did nothing wrong happily, because she barely did anything at all other than be a victim.
Driving at a police officer is a death sentence. Period. That's vehicular assault in any jurisdiction anywhere. The proportionate response to someone attempting to run you over is deadly force.
Everyone keeps saying shoplifting...no...she was shot over attempted murder.
I don't think /u/Ilovethebomb was trying to defend it. He's just adding context. She didn't only get shot for shoplifting. The shoplifting initiated an interaction with the police that escalated. She started driving away and the cops tried to physically stop the car with their bodies. So one of the cops panicked and shot.
Of course there are many issues - why were the cops pointing guns at her in the parking lot while she was in the car? Certainly didn't help with de-escalation. I hope the cop who fired the shot and is under investigation gets criminal charges.
Exactly, saying things like she was "murdered in cold blood" doesn't help anyone, because you're that far off the deep end nobody outside of your echo chamber will take you seriously.
There have been a few people reply to me saying that, despite what happened, the police could and should have done something different. And they're probably right, I don't know how we got from shoplifting to this, but there were probably opportunities to defuse the situation.