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.

  • WorldWideLem@lemmy.worldOP
    17·
    1 year ago

    It’s not police policy to kill fleeing suspects, plenty of jurisdictions even choose not to pursue. So the answer to those questions is that yes, they absolutely could have let her drive away, as some other police forces already do without issue.

    Aside from that, even if they decided to pursue, it is not police policy anywhere to use deadly force to stop a fleeing subject unless it becomes an acute danger to the public. A fleeing subject who has yet to break 10 MPH does not fall under that description, not here, not anywhere.

    And here’s a question, if it was such a deadly situation for this officer, how did he not get injured? He was already safely out of the way of the vehicle by the time any of his bullets had an effect. Because he’s not a fucking invalid and can side step a car, which he put himself in front of to begin with, pulling out of a parking spot.

    Do you feel safer today because this woman is dead? Does anyone?

    • thantik@lemmy.world
      220·
      1 year ago

      Yes, those policies refer to fleeing suspects who pose no danger to the public. Fleeing in a vehicle poses a danger to the public. That’s why they pit-maneuver vehicles fleeing on the highway.

      Great, they didn’t allow her to break 10mph, it means they did their job.

      The deadly situation doesn’t apply JUST to the officer – they are meant to protect the public. It’s just like computer security, someone good at their job doesn’t have anything happen. They stop the problem before it becomes a problem. You’re not good at your job because you LET the system get infected first.

      Ditto for policing, you don’t wait for them to hurt others in order to justify stopping them after - they were already being detained. If you begin driving off with pedestrians around and the police want you out of your vehicle, they have a legitimate reason to stop you using whatever force is necessary.

      If she is just running away? Hell no, the force isn’t justified here. It’s her being in the car that causes the force to be justified. Same with if a person had a gun, or a knife, she has a weapon…the car.

      So you plan on volunteering to be hit between a car and a wall at 10mph to show how not-deadly it is? Because I’ll concede my point if you do. If you don’t want to do it, ask yourself why… it’s probably because a 3000lb object traveling at 10mph can be deadly; despite your protests to the contrary.

      Nothing that you’ve stated here can objectively determine that these police officers did anything wrong, your political biases are at play here rather than a good neutral look at reality.