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.

  • @ox0rEnglish
    126•10 months ago

    Getting shot over shoplifting is insane.

    The usa is fucked beyond saving

    • @x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -16•10 months ago

      I’m fine with enacting a quarantine across the entire united states and allowing those who want to leave to leave

    • @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world
      -24•10 months ago

      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.

      • @jimbo@lemmy.world
        57•10 months ago

        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.

      • TheHarpyEagle
        40•10 months ago

        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.

          • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
            4•10 months ago

            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.

      • @ox0rEnglish
        31•10 months ago

        See, people are even defending it. Truly and absolutely fucked fucked fucked.

        • @kava@lemmy.world
          5•10 months ago

          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.

      • @Government_Worker666@lemmy.world
        11•10 months ago

        She didn’t steal anything. The cop stepped toward the direction she was steering. He even stepped forward as she was attempting to “run him over”.

      • @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
        1•10 months ago

        Your take is scummy and delusional. I don’t envy the world you’ve constructed around you that’s so blind and ignorant towards reality