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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

Every cop that doesn't protest against this behavior is a bastard. Silence is complicence.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Lol, cops only care about themselves and other cops.

[-] matchphoenix@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago

Thank god for police unions, otherwise this cop might have had to face some responsibility for their actions

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

the only union that does not defend actual labor.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

typical nazi MO

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely not true!

Cops also care about:

  • power
  • money
  • their image (to those perceived at or above their social class)
  • sadistic pleasure
  • their orgasms
[-] TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

All cops are bastards is not just a leftist slogan, friend.

Actual right wing libertarians surely exist too, like honest Senators and good Christians.

[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Silence leads to violence

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

It seriously makes me consider becoming a cop, a job I would loathe, just to talk some sense into my coworkers.

[-] sudo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

One of the reasons all cops are bastards is because good cops are severely punished.

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