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.

  • 30mag@lemmy.world
    262·
    11 months ago

    could he not just have taken the license plate number then sent agents to go knock on her door later?

    No. She was driving a car without license plates, which is unusual.

    Young got into a four-door Lexus sedan that did not have a license plate and was illegally parked in a handicapped spot, Belford said.

    https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2023/08/25/blendon-township-police-statement-fatal-kroger-parking-lot-shooting-takiya-kiya-young-columbus-ohio/70680484007/

    However, I do not believe that fact justifies shooting her.

    • na_th_an@lemmy.world
      121·
      11 months ago

      Driving a car without plates is extremely common in this area. It has been ever since they suspended registration requirements during Covid. I see multiple cars without plates every time I go for a drive.

        • na_th_an@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          This area doesn’t have tolls or red light cameras.

          Dealers don’t submit paperwork for you to get plates unless you pay extra for the service. Otherwise you get a 45 day temporary tag.

          If you buy used in a private sale, then you get nothing. You have to go buy plates. There is no transfer of plates between private parties in Ohio when doing a private sale.

      • 30mag@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        I didn’t know that there was any place in the United States that did not require license plates. There were/are a lot of people asking why the cops didn’t just get the number off her license plates and arrest her later. The simplest answer to that is that the car didn’t have plates on it, but I don’t think that fact played any role in the decisions made by the involved parties. Though, I could be wrong about that.

      • krolden@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 months ago

        Oh I dont have my plates I’ll just tape up this piece of paper in my rear window and no one will care

      • 30mag@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I don’t think the plates would have been in the video frame at any point if they had been on the car. I don’t know if there are any pictures of the scene or not.