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.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    306·
    10 months ago

    If she was trying to run him over, she did a really shitty job. The cop put himself in front of the vehicle and she turned her steering wheel the wrong direction and didn’t slam the accelerator. I think if anything the cop was trying to be run over, not the other way around.

    • Compactor9679
      316·
      10 months ago

      Its not about “doing a good job” or not. She had the intent. Its all it takes for an officer or even a person to defend themselfs

      • Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world
        133·
        10 months ago

        You’re not getting it. He wasn’t trying to defend himself, he was intentionally putting himself in a place of danger to justify murder in the name of defense.

        • Compactor9679
          24·
          10 months ago

          Amazing how cops are put in that position. Putting yourself intentionally in a place of danger to do your job. We have to thank every single one of them

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        62·
        10 months ago

        She clearly did not have intent. The cop just placed himself in front of the car. If he wasn’t there she still would have driven forward. She didn’t drive forward because he was there. It wasn’t intent to run him over, it was intent to flee. The cop had intent to be in the cars path though.