Ta'Kiya Young, 21, appears to advance the car towards an Ohio officer before a single shot is fired.
One officer is seen standing at her door and repeatedly telling her to "get out of the car".
"For what?" she responds twice, adding: "I'm not going to do that."
One officer seen in front of the car has his left hand on the hood, his gun drawn in the other hand.
"Are you going to shoot me?" she says moments before a single shot is fired and the officer quickly moves out of the car's path.
The cop who killed her was in no danger, and has time to casually stroll out of the way of the vehicle.
What he doesn't have is a name or a face — as often happens, the police haven't been named, and their faces have been blurred in the video.
Why?
If they weren't cops — if they were just a pair of random dudes killing a black pregnant woman, and there was video footage — would their names remain secret, their faces blurred?
Both officers, who have not been identified, were in the parking lot for an unrelated call.
Footage shows officers attempting to question her for alleged shoplifting.
So they are there for something completely unrelated. Then just decide to question pregnant woman about shoplifting and fucking shoot her???? That's not even why you're there!!! What the fuck happened and I'm sorry stolen property, especially corporate property, should not warrant taking a life.
Oh wait sorry but SA survivors, even children, can't have an abortion, and they are willing to take doctors to court for it. Because life is precious. Until it's taken by a cop.
At work someone was visiting from overseas.
When asked if he wanted to do anything in particular, he asked if he could see our guns and maybe go shooting.
We explained that contrary to stereotypes, we didn't all have guns, and in fact no one in the room had a gun.
Later while walking outside to lunch he asked what all the loud bangs were. It was the gun range across the street that we had all just kind of forgot about and ignored.
It's really not, but doom scrolling sure makes it feel that way. The human mind simply does not understand mass statistics as applied to individual risk.
While true (over four decades without seeing a gun used against a living target in the US here), the statistics are still pretty bad here per capita.
Someone in my school growing up killed their sibling (accidental shooting). A guy that did some work for my family couldn't finish the job because he shot his wife's boyfriend and went to jail. There was a spree shooter within half a mile of my home once. I've never seen anything personally, but have more "close calls" than people in a lot of countries wouldn't believe.
Of course, I've known more fatalities from cars or cancer or heart attacks. But still our statistics on gun violence is not great, just not to the point of it being quite as ubiquitous as reported on the media.
This is one of the reasons I refuse to shop at my local Meijer stores. Their fucking registers are quick to accuse you of stealing something, and you're treated as guilty by the employees even if you try to prove that the machine is wrong.
I know more than one person who has had this experience, chiefly my sister who already has severe social anxiety. She won't step foot there again.
One has been banned since the first time she went because the employees confused her with someone that actually shoplifted. They called in the cops, who told her should be trespassed if she came back.
I find that completely appalling that they called this a tragedy.
A tragedy implies two things, a lot of small things happening at once that add up to an unpreventable misfortune
A wave of bad luck striking at the right time for the wrong person
This wasn't a tragedy, this was murder. "Luck" wasn't involved, nor the "Will of God", it was a man who's pp only gets hard when he takes the lives of the innocent.
Who attempted to cover it up? The first I heard was the release of the video and announcement that the cop with the gun was removed from duty while under investigation. I'm honestly asking because I'm not aware.
I wouldn't have used the word 'cover-up', but it's accurate. The announced story that she was driving her car into the cop is a falsehood designed to cover up what actually happened.
Also, any cop anywhere who shoots anyone under any circumstances is always removed from duty while under investigation. It's not indicative of openness and integrity; it's merely pro forma.
If they only release footage with the faces and badges blurred, how do we know the guys punished are the ones in the video? Why blur their faces if you are going to hold them responsible?
On the blurring and name thing; as a general rule all crime suspects should always be treated like that. Even convicted criminals.
Think about it. If you publish "first name last name is suspected of molesting children" with a face, then that person's life is destroyed, even if it turns out they're innocent.
In the other hand if they're found guilty, you will want that person to serve their time, rehabilitate, and then come back into society and continue a normal life without causing more trouble. If you publish names and faces, that's no longer possible.
Even in cases like these.
Then again, in countries where they do do this, these police officers would likely already have been arrested for homicide.
Edit: exceptions to these criminal privacy laws exist, mostly for when there are extreme circumstances, for example when a suspected crazy killer is on the lose and people need to avoid and report them
There are still those mugshot websites that post all the booking photos from the sheriff's departments daily. They always have the disclaimer "for entertainment purposes only, all suspects are innocent until blah blah" but you have to fight with them to get them taken down because it's public information. You can go to your local jail or prison's website and look up someone's name to see if they're in custody, regardless of whether they've had their day in court. Some of them have inmate rosters so you end up seeing everyone's names alphabetically.
It just makes it even more gross when they extend this privilege to cops but not the average person, especially innocent people whose cases go on to be dismissed, but they had their mug shots posted online. Yes, criminal privacy laws would make sense, but in the US everyone is guilty until proven otherwise.
I'm surprised all the bootlickers I saw in the other thread about the body camera footage aren't in here defending the cop, claiming their life was threatened, aren't in here. What bullshit that was.
usa does nothing but talk these days with no results
citizens say they are upset and want change but noone is willing to put in that effort to get there
does not help electing procop leaders like we have done always just look at the last two elections procop presidents won and not from the same party
cops are the militarized force meant to keep us in our proper stations
our country will never for example put funding into education enough and proper social investments enough where so many cops are not applicable
Maybe I'm crazy, but if police have a gun pointed at me and tell me to get out of the car, I'm just going to get out of the xar, knowing they might shoot me if I don't.
This can almost be considered suicide, knowing how bad police are with restraint.
I wonder what percent of the time cops fire their guns when drawn. As a person of color, I’m not sure I’d know what to do if a cop had a gun drawn on me. I’d probably be fearing for my life. Thinking, it’s either them or me.
Maybe I'm crazy, but if someone seems intent on killing me and I'm in a car, I'm not going to be inclined to get out of the car to make it easier for them to kill me.