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.

  • Thurgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I do not understand why it is so common for police in this country to stand in front of a car and then shoot the driver when the car moves. It’s a manufactured danger and really does not seem like a smart idea to use your weapon to put a corpse in control of a heavy machine.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      You do understand why. What you said is exactly why. They are manufacturing a danger so that they are legally allowed to use lethal force against anyone for any small crime. All the police do in the USA is escalate, escalate, escalate

    • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is the first reasonable response to this I’ve seen. They have a vehicle, block the car in with it perhaps?

      Not justifying the driver’s actions in any way, but it did seem strange to me.