Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn child were killed by police in Ohio in incident family says could have been avoided.

Police in the US state of Ohio have released body camera footage of a fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman Ta’Kiya Young, which sparked public anger and renewed calls for an end to deadly police violence in the United States.

The footage released on Friday showed the 21-year-old’s killing in a grocery store parking lot in Blendon Township, a suburb of the Ohio state capital, Columbus, on August 24. Authorities said Young’s unborn child did not survive the shooting.

Blending Township Police Chief John Belford has characterised the incident as a “tragedy” that occurred when police tried to stop Young after she was accused of shoplifting.

But Young’s family has called the killing “avoidable”, a “gross misuse of power and authority” and a “hateful act”, according to local media reports.

"This incident goes beyond the obvious policy violations that occurred,” the family said in a statement, as reported by the Columbus Dispatch newspaper. “After seeing the video footage of her death, this is clearly a criminal act.”

The US has seen mass protests in recent years against deadly police violence, including the 2020 killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Advocates have continued to demand accountability and an end to anti-Black racism.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/9/1/us-police-release-footage-showing-fatal-shooting-of-pregnant-black-woman

Humans are naturally prone to abuse power and authority



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Everybody will die one day....

Black people more than three times as likely as white people to be killed during a police encounter (Havard school of public health report, 2020)...know this as a black person and know peace!

Xscape1993:
Everybody will die one day....

So we should all be okay with those that speed up the process for us abi? Or what exactly is the meaning of your comment?

I read the news so scary to live in the US because of this happening