On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”. The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi.
On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby’s mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a friend, had stolen a pack of diapers. Neither woman has been charged with a crime. Officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting.
According to police reports, on the day of the shooting, the women and child exited the store, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot when officers arrived.
The police drew their weapons. Wiley lifted the baby up to indicate that there was a child in the car. An officer, identified by other records as Sgt Hunter Foster, fired into the vehicle, killing Kohen Wiley and wounding Ferrell. Foster is white; both Wileys and Ferrell are Black.
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How is it ever justifiable to be killed for shoplifting?
Just an allegation of shoplifting at that.
Can’t let the poors get one over on ya. They might get ideas.
NYPD is essentially Targets personal security force in my area. They check in twice a day, every day. If there is an issue, they’re there in 30 seconds. Took them two hours to get a man with a knife out of my building lobby, 3 buildings down for reference.
And at that too my midtown Target keeps basically everything under lock and key. What’s the point of even going…
Edit: if we need to keep laundry detergent locked up, we have way bigger problems to solve
Am not American, can confirm you have way bigger problems.
Am American, can second we have bigger problems.
Makes perfect sense.
Police exist to protect capital. That simple.
Take a look at the baby’s skin color, read that it is Mississippi, and fill in the blanks.
Sadly, in my experience the default stance is “if they broke the law, they only have themselves to blame.”
If comments on bodycam vids are anything to go by, anything more than misdemeanor crimes should be resolved by summary execution, including and especially fleeing from the police. I hope dead internet theory is real in that case.
Shoplifting a pack of diapers is almost certainly a misdemeanor.
Depending on your color
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shoplifting diapers even
Things are worth more than people.
Look at the state and the colour of the baby.
Her real crime was daring to exist as a black woman