In what world is shooting at a car with a child inside (or even without) justified over a shoplifting?

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.

The Mississippi bureau of investigation, which investigated the shooting, alleged that the driver “drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one”. But the civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family, released an independent autopsy that indicated Wiley was shot from the side of the car, not the front, which contradicted officers’ statements that Ferrell headed towards them.

“A one-year-old was shot and killed by an officer of this department, and nearly three months later his family still has not been allowed to see the footage”

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[–] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 child)

She didn't even shoplift the diapers. A white woman thought she was, and called the cops.

The kid wasn't shot by accident as the officer fired indiscriminately into the car. His mother held him up, to show the cop pointing a gun at the car, that he was there. The cop shot a baby that was being held up, like the baby was a clay pigeon.

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