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.
typical nazi MO
Absolutely not true!
Cops also care about:
- power
- money
- their image (to those perceived at or above their social class)
- sadistic pleasure
- their orgasms
Truth
All cops are bastards is not just a leftist slogan, friend.
Silence leads to violence
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.
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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.
Get that fucker on the stand or in a deposition and ask, “What were you hoping to accomplish by firing at the driver?”
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?
