Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year old pregnant mother in Ohio, has raised questions about the strength of police department use-of-force restrictions and how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield.

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.

  • drdalek13
    33·
    10 months ago

    I think it raises more questions about valid use of force.

    It’s absolutely insane that someone was being shot at, for potential shop lifting, worse still that this was in a public place with others around.

    This is just horrid.

    • deft@ttrpg.network
      41·
      10 months ago

      Don’t we have stuff like cameras and license plates and investigations? Like what threat did this person pose that you felt defense was required?

      spoiler : there was none she was just black