Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police | CNN
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The Blendon Township, Ohio police department released bodycam footage of an officer-involved shooting that took the life of Ta’Kiya Young. Young was accused of shoplifting by an employee and tried to leave the scene. CNN’s Miguel Marquez reports.

Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

  • thantik@lemmy.world
    414·
    1 year ago

    My best friend was shot and killed for trying to break into a neighbors lawn trailer. Initially I was mad at the guy (what person wouldn’t be?) - but over time, I realized that he had made those decisions on his own, and he suffered the consequences of them.

    If my wife had done the same thing and gotten herself killed - I’d do the same thing probably. Probably be mad at police initially, then mad at her for choosing to do something so stupid. But in the end, I wouldn’t blame the police unless they did something unreasonable. My wife was having a medical episode at the time, and genuinely probably needed to be taken to the hospital instead of being arrested, but the fact of the matter is she was swerving in and out of traffic so their pulling her over ultimately was a good thing. She could have gotten my son that was riding with her killed.

      • thantik@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        His name is Brett Lee Canada, you’re welcome to look it up. It happened in Lake County, FL. I don’t know what they do with police records of people who are deceased, but that information is there if you want to confirm my honesty.

        Nevermind, I did the work for you: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2010/01/03/shooting-death-prompts-lawsuit-3/

        The lawsuit went forward and the gentleman was found to have been within his rights to have shot Brett.

        The other incident occurred about 3:30 a.m. Nov. 19 on Spring Hill Avenue in Sorrento, where Brett Lee Canada, 23, was shot and killed by homeowner Shane Biel, who recently had installed an alarm system to deter thefts.

        Biel, 41, who previously reported thefts of commercial lawn equipment from his property, confronted a man inside a fenced area who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and gloves. Biel told deputies he fired when the man moved aggressively at him.

        Canada, a convicted burglar, had served about two years in prison for property crimes.

        So now you can apologize.