They Shot Her, and It’s All on Camera

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The video of a controversial shooting that took place in Westerville, OH, has just been released. The bodycam footage of officers who shot a 21-year-old pregnant woman at a Kroger parking lot has everyone up in arms. The woman, Ta’Kiya Young, leaves two additional children behind.

Shoplifting

Young was suspected of shoplifting at the store. Police approached her outside the store, but she refused to get out of her car when police officers approached her. Her family stated that the shooting “should have never, ever happened.”

Police released the footage to show what actually happened. Police had already been on the scene due to someone calling for assistance after having locked themselves out of the car when a Kroger employee approached them to let them know a woman getting into a nearby car had allegedly shoplifted.

The officer asked her to stop and get out of the car, but she refused.

The woman then starts to move her car forward, hitting the officer in front of the car, who then fired a shot at the woman.

The car then crashed into the side of the Kroger, and officers shattered the window to open the window and remove the woman from the car, who was slumped over the wheel at the time.

Here is the video of the incident…

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Medical assistance was provided at the scene, but the woman died at St. Ann’s Hospital.

Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford stated, “Following an officer-involved shooting in Blendon Township last Thursday, we are currently preparing the body camera video for public release.

“This process includes the following steps: Identifying and applying the required legal redactions, proving the redactions to legal counsel to ensure compliance with the law, providing the investigating agency with what will be released to minimize any potential interference with their investigation, and then allowing the family of the woman who died the opportunity to see the video before the public does.”

The statement added, “Blendon Township has a small staff, but we are still committed to abiding by Ohio public records law, which requires records like body camera video to be released in a reasonable amount of time.”

Attorneys for Young’s family, of course, are making her out to be the victim here, but the bodycam footage, at least in my opinion, says a different story.

Had she complied with the officers and gotten out of the car, she would be alive today. Had she not moved her car into the officer to escape the scene, she would be alive today.

She did neither… and now she is dead.

Source: Fox News

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