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Police in Ohio fatally shot a pregnant shoplifting suspect

apnews.com Police in Ohio fatally shot a pregnant shoplifting suspect

Police officials in an Ohio suburb say officers shot and killed a pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting after she accelerated her car toward an officer trying to stop her.

Police in a Columbus suburb fatally shot a pregnant woman in an Ohio supermarket parking lot after she accelerated her car toward an officer, police officials said.

Ta’Kiya Young, 21, of Columbus, died Thursday evening in Blendon.

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So they’re being charged with two counts of murder because conservatives have consistently ruled that fetuses are people, right? They killed an innocent person by killing the mother. Even if the mother was guilty, the baby was innocent.

Oh wait, they only want those rules to oppress women, not to oppress the oppressors.

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- This was also demonstrated when a decision came up saying a fetus couldn't be claimed as a tax credit. Rules for thee, not for me.
  
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- Why would they be charged at all? She was attempting to murder the cop.
  
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  It was a joke about how conservatives are anti-abortion to the point of charging miscarrying mothers with murder, while simultaneously being okay with cops killing a pregnant woman.
  
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We got video yet?

I'm not picking a side because police have a history of lying.

Remember the time cops save a wandering 2yo and did a photo op, only for the public go discover the cops kidnapped that child earlier from their mom?

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- I am picking a side for the same reason.
  
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- Oh, you can pick a side. 😅 Literally all recent cases I can think of where this scenario played out (in France), recordings have come up not long after proving the officers were lying. The officers were never in danger, they were just looking for an excuse to murder racialized people. Not really a stretch to surmise this is the case here. Heartbreaking.
  
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After the police CLAIM she accelerated her car towards them. I don't believe a goddam word that police statements say, in relation to someone being killed by police

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She charged the cop in her car! Of course they are going to shoot! What the hell was she thinking? Cops didn't shoot a shoplifter, they shot a murderer mid murder attempt.

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- According to the cop. Let's wait if the bodycam footage mysteriously disappears.
  
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  True.
  
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- Yes, I agree with this. I also want to see the video because sometimes what a cop calls charging isn't how I would use the word. But until I see otherwise, this sounds like a reasonable response.
  
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- Maybe, get out of the way? Like police officers in civilised societies?
  
  If a car is going fast enough to endanger you, killing the driver will not stop the car.
  
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  Personally, the first thing I'd do if a car was moving dangerously fast toward me is to stand still, draw my weapon, and fire at it.
  
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  According to [Blendon Township police Chief John] Belford, after the officer shot Young, the car ran for about 50 feet until stopping at a brick wall, at which point the officers broke the driver’s window to give Young first aid.
  
  100%; the police executing this young woman did nothing to immediately stop the car, because of course it wouldn't, and, obviously, the officers had no trouble getting out of the way anyway; in fact one of the officers had no trouble aiming, shooting, and then moving out of the way.
  
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  Are you really defending a person charging a car towards another person?
  
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- Who says she charged at the cops? The cops that murdered her? Cops lie in their statements every single day. Double lies if they killed someone. A hungry, pregnant mother lifting food isn't gonna suicide herself and baby like that, makes no sense
  
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  Apparently the store employee who said she stole bottles of alcohol. You know, for the baby.
  
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- That's their side of the story.
  
  Unfortunately, the other side is dead.
  
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- Call me crazy, but if I had a car coming right at me I'd be diving out of the way of it, not continuing to stand in the path of the car to try to shoot the driver in the off chance that that doesn't cause them to entirely lose control of the vehicle that coming right at me
  
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  In a self defense situation we all might react differently.
  
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- I mean they will step in front of a car then yell "It's coming right for us!"
  
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  That's ManBearPig
  
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Americans be like

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