A Cop Killed a 1-Year-Old. Mississippi Says the Shooting Was “JUSTIFIED.”
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A Cop Killed a 1-Year-Old. Mississippi Says the Shooting Was “JUSTIFIED.”
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A police officer shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley during a shoplifting call at a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi. The AG’s office says the force was justified. The family still hasn’t seen the body-camera footage.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation says the driver drove toward officers and nearly struck one. Kohen’s mother disputes that and denies they stole anything. AP reports neither woman has been charged. We need the footage to sort out those competing accounts.
But before anybody defends the shot, ask this: did trying to stop that car, right then, make anybody safer? You can have grounds to arrest somebody and still not need to force it right fucking now. And shooting the driver doesn’t stop the car.
We need national use-of-force standards, real training, and records that follow officers from department to department.
Release the footage. Explain the decisions, including what happened before the shot.
Kohen Wiley deserved to get home alive.
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