And here's your chance to have the last ignorant word. Enjoy it.I'm out.
Posted on 09/01/2023 3:14:54 PM PDT by grundle
Associated Press video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VesUUuaZnw
Ta’Kiya Young, 21, was suspected of shoplifting and confronted by two police officers in an Ohio grocery store parking lot.
Body camera footage showing the moments before the fatal shooting last week of a pregnant woman by an Ohio police officer was released Friday.
Ta’Kiya Young, 21, was suspected of shoplifting and confronted by two police officers in an Ohio grocery store parking lot on Aug. 24. After repeatedly being asked to get out of her vehicle by the two officers, one of whom pointed a gun at her, Young slowly accelerated her car toward an officer, who police said was struck.
An officer fired through her windshield and Young was pronounced dead shortly before 7:45 p.m., according to the Franklin County Coroner’s Office.
The body camera video, which Young's family viewed before its release Friday morning, shows an officer approach a car with Young in the driver's seat.
"Out of the car," the officer can be heard saying multiple times.
"For what?" Young asks.
"They said you stole stuff. Do not leave," he responds.
A second officer then stands in front of Young’s car, puts his hand on the hood, and eventually points his gun at her through the front windshield.
"I didn't steal s---," Young says.
"Then get out," the first officer says.
The officer standing in front of Young's car is then seen pointing his gun toward her.
“Get out of the f---ing car,” the second officer says.
"No," Young is heard saying, followed by, "You gonna shoot me?"
"Get out of the car," the first officer responds while banging on Young's window with one hand and grabbing the slightly opened window with the other.
Seconds later, Young is seen turning her steering wheel and driving off. A sound is heard, as the officer in front of the car fires into the windshield at close range and moves to the driver's side.
It's not clear where Young was shot. A scream is heard as the car continues to drive away at a slow speed.
"Shots fired!" the first officer is heard saying. "Stop the God d--m car!"
The second officer appears to attempt to steer or stop the car until it hits the facade of the grocery store.
The officers then break the driver's window, and the footage comes to an end.
The officers called emergency services seconds after getting her out of the car and attempted to help Young by applying a seal to her wound to stop the bleeding, Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said in a statement.
In a statement, Young's family and their lawyer said the shooting "is clearly a criminal act" and demanded "a swift indictment" of the officer who shot her.
"Having viewed the footage in its entirety, it is undeniable that Ta’Kiya’s death was not only avoidable, but also a gross misuse of power and authority," the statement read. "As if the pain of losing Ta’Kiya isn’t enough, we must grapple with the knowledge that her unborn daughter was also robbed of her life in this hateful act."
Young "was a beacon of love, strength, and energy to all who knew her," her family said.
"Her tragic passing has left a void that words can’t describe, especially for her two young sons, who must now grow up without the love and guidance of their mother, and while coming to understand the circumstances that led to her homicide," the statement read.
The officer who fired the shot has been placed on administrative leave. The other officer was initially also placed on administrative leave but returned to duty after Belford viewed body camera footage and saw no reason to keep him on leave, he said.
Both officers involved in the incident have not been identified.
In a statement, Belford said Young drove her car directly into one of the officers and he "fired a single shot through the windshield," which led to her death. According to Belford, the officer is a victim of attempted vehicular assault.
Young also drove away while part of the other officer's arm was in the driver's side window, making him a victim of misdemeanor assault, Belford said. As Young attempted to drive away, the officer's fingers were grabbing the window, the footage shows.
Because Young is dead, charges can't be filed, but the crime victim status of both officers remain, Belford said.
"This was a tragedy," Belford said. "Ms. Young’s family is understandably very upset and grieving. While none of us can fully understand the depths of their pain, all of us can remember them in our prayers and give them the time and space to deal with this heartbreaking turn of events."
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting. They did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
And here's your chance to have the last ignorant word. Enjoy it.I'm out.
You’re right. That video makes it clear what happened and why the officers reacted the way they did.
LOL...And you come up with zero zip..
You people throw out comments like involuntary burps...You guys have no clue here if ya think, “Cops are trained to stand in front of running vehicles occupied by criminal suspects”.
That’s some funny sh*t.
There should be a receipt for whatever she removed from the store. Unless, of course, she is one of those people who don’t keep their receipts.
Undoubtedly. Any store nowadays has cameras covering every square foot 24x7. Near the registers, cameras from every angle.
These days, shoplifting is not a whim, it's a business. Seems like most cases, they're stealing huge quantities, and of course, shoplifters--who usually work in pairs or gangs--have a reputation for killing anyone who slows them down on the way out.
I hate to say it, but today, it's so dangerous to everyone concerned that to me, if you took the stuff, you bought the bullet.
Entering a store with intent to steal is burglary. A felony. Attempting to elude or evade the police is a felony. (In my jurisdiction, anyway.). Inviting a felony stop is stupid.
When a cop has a gun drawn, I assume that shooting is an option.
One long-lasting byproduct of the Rodney King riots: cops mostly no longer carry batons. In the past, a cop would have taken his baton and whacked her hands off the wheel. She would have broken finger bones, but she would have been alive.
Funny how the headline doesn’t mention that she deliberately drove at, and struck an officer. She used the car as a weapon, the officer responded. Period.
And she probably shoplifted, so too bad, so sad.
The world’s better off with one less 80 IQ breeder.
I've read a few stories on this shooting. It appears she was with a group of people who were stealing alcohol bottles from Kroger Supermarket. They left the store together and then scattered to different vehicles.
When confronted by the cops, she said, to paraphrase, "I wasn't stealing. Those other girls were." and then proceeded to disregard the cops' orders to comply.
It can also be mentioned that the Lexus she was driving was parked in a handicapped space and had no license plates.
Sure it is. And the potential consequences for doing otherwise are laid out in the law.
If that’s their training then their training procedures are poor.
“ failing to obey the orders of the police is an indicator of behavior that may endanger others.”
Sorry but that’s beyond a stretch, yes it’s stupid to disobey a cop, but to supposition your refusal to do so makes you a danger to others in and of itself?!? Sorry that’s just nonsense.
Yes she should have complied, but putting yourself in front of a vehicle particularly for an alleged non violent infraction is just foolish, if that’s training then that’s a dumb procedure that needs to be updated. Putting your life in direct harm to protect others as a peace officer, sure.. but to do so when there is no direct threat to others? That’s foolishness
If this person have been alleged to have been violent or waving around weapons or even threatening people, etc sure but given the facts of this situation, that’s just silly.
She should have obeyed, but that doesn’t negate this was an insanely escalated situation for a shop living allegation… seems to me policies and procedures need evaluated here
As civilization circles the drain, you post that flaccid nonsense.
“”””Young slowly accelerated her car toward””””
NBC running cover for the perp as expected.
“Slowly” really???????
They could have said “gently and respectfully.”
Act civilized and you won’t get shot.
If comments like that are what make your trailer parks badass… well congratulations.
Unless she had a gun. And they didn’t know, one way or the other.
If only the cops had been trained social workers....
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