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.

  • callouscomicEnglish
    142·
    10 months ago

    You’re being disingenuous Monday morning qb’ing. Police are supposedly trained in de-escalation. I am not excusing the behavior, but I can understand a random untrained citizen having fear and unpredictable bad decision-making in a situation like this. Whereas the cops absolutely have countless other things they could do that are calmer and more de-escalating.

    Ultimately, basic theft isn’t worth death. The problem is that cops have unilaterally decided it is completely unacceptable to not listen to them, up to death. They could have followed her. They could have let her go. There are numerous alternatives that could have happened. Cops in America have endlessly shown they are trigger happy twitchy and rushing to escalate.

    The burden is on trained police to behave better than a random person does. This doesn’t excuse her behavior. But the cops are NOT justified either.

    I understand this nuance is lost on most.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world
      54·
      10 months ago

      This doesn’t excuse her behavior. But the cops are NOT justified either.

      You’re far more level headed than most of the commenters here. Yeah, the police could definitely have handled this better as well.

      • Cabrio@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 months ago

        Given your capacity for intelligence you’re probably below the max IQ limit for hiring US cops, you should apply, you get to shoot innocent unarmed civilians for misdemeaner crimes while pretending that your own life threatening actions were their fault and you still get the advantage of other braindead troglodytes like yourself defending your murder of a non shoplifter for non compliance, for a crime with no death penalty.

        Judge Dredd wasn’t a guidebook on policing you deranged bootlicking homunculus.