Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield.
It was unclear Saturday whether the Blendon Township Police Department has adopted a use-of-force continuum policy, which would outline measures that must be exhausted before lethal force can be used.
The video of the Aug. 24 shooting, released Friday, shows Young in her car in a parking space as a police officer orders her to exit the vehicle. A second officer is seen drawing his firearm and stepping in front of the car, despite a department policy advising officers to get out of the way of an approaching vehicle instead of firing their weapon.
Every cop that doesn’t protest against this behavior is a bastard. Silence is complicence.
Lol, cops only care about themselves and other cops.
Thank god for police unions, otherwise this cop might have had to face some responsibility for their actions
the only union that does not defend actual labor.
Nah. The government would pay any fines and the cop either gets a vacation until it blows over or gets another job in another county.
typical nazi MO
All cops are bastards is not just a leftist slogan, friend.
Actual right wing libertarians surely exist too, like honest Senators and good Christians.
Silence leads to violence
It seriously makes me consider becoming a cop, a job I would loathe, just to talk some sense into my coworkers.
The toxicity is self perpetuating. Anyone with a semblance of decency wouldn’t become a cop, so you just have more and more of these racist fascist assholes breeding more hatred and thugary. Any ‘good cop’ quickly realizes it’s a cesspool and leaves, or succumbs to the bastardization.
Or is intimidated/forced out by the shitty cops.
One of the reasons all cops are bastards is because good cops are severely punished.
I think it raises more questions about valid use of force.
It’s absolutely insane that someone was being shot at, for potential shop lifting, worse still that this was in a public place with others around.
This is just horrid.
There’s people on one side saying the shooting is unjustified, there’s people on a other saying it was justified.
And then there’s all of us that are like “why would you shoot someone over this, and why is the whole thing handled so dangerously?”.
Why not note the registration plate and then get her later? By turning the scenario into a thing they also endangered everyone else around the car.
Whole thing is poor. These police need some basic scenario management training, and to learn how to not escalate situations.
Why not note the registration plate and then get her later?
You’re assuming that every time someone has planned a crime, they were at least honest about their license plate LMAOOO
But yeah, the use of force here was unnecessary because the suspect in question was most likely very disinterested in causing any physical harm. The cops were actually more dangerous than she probably ever would’ve been.
Her vehicle didn’t have a license plate (https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/08/25/blendon-township-police-statement-fatal-kroger-parking-lot-shooting-takiya-kiya-young-columbus-ohio/70680484007/) and in many places criminals steal cars or plates already to conceal their identity when committing property crimes. I don’t know what the answer is but it’s likely not that.
The answer is “it’s better to let them get away with petty theft than to kill them.”
Not to mention endangering bystanders in the process.
(Though, to be clear: it’s monstrous to shoot people for petty theft even if there are no bystanders)
Don’t we have stuff like cameras and license plates and investigations? Like what threat did this person pose that you felt defense was required?
spoiler : there was none she was just black
Get that fucker on the stand or in a deposition and ask, “What were you hoping to accomplish by firing at the driver?”
Honestly if he’d get on the stand and say
“We’re trained to point our guns at people to intimidate them into compliance. I didn’t even mean to shoot, I just panicked, being a scared little piggy staring at the consequences of my actions, a fellow human who rightly considers everyone in uniform a white supremacist gang member and an existential threat and began acting as such” we’d know they’re capable of some form of introspection and acceptance of personal responsibility.
Does anyone think that will happen?
Does anyone think he will even apologize?
ACAB. Full stop.
I appreciate the context this article has over policy and best practice. This quote still confuses me though.
"And oftentimes bad tactics translates to needing to use more force than was necessary,” Gross said. “The officer shouldn’t put himself in front of the car. He can’t stop the car with his body.”
Is he alluding to there being possible justification as a result of a bad tactical maneuver? Also confused about the moving vehicle definition. Does that apply to situations when the vehicle that is approached is currently parked?
Lol the title… Clearly questions haven’t been raised about shooting people so much as the vehicles
