The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office announced on Monday.

“Today, the Office of the Attorney General announced it has completed the review of a June 14, 2026 incident in Senatobia involving one officer with the Senatobia Police Department,” the Republican attorney general’s statement said. “In this incident, the Attorney General’s Office found the use of force was justified. Pursuant to Section 45-1-6 of the Mississippi Code, the review followed an investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.”

Officers were responding to a shoplifting call alleging that Wiley’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, and Latoya Ferrell had stolen a pack of diapers. The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, and Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him. A bullet also wounded Ferrell.

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[–] [S, M] 68 points 1 day ago* (40 children)

Consider this a warning: We can speak about the horrors of this case without leaning into misogyny and attacking this woman for how she looks.

Comments attacking anyone for how they look will be subject to removal.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    I don't think there could possibly be a greater bashing of her appearance than this warning post.

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    [–] 3 points 10 hours ago*

    He was...crawling right at them? Might have overpowered them? And of course it happened at a walmart.

    What would have happened if the lady got away with a pack of stolen diapers? Worth firing guns over I guess?

    I dont even recognize this country anymore. Its barbaric.

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  • [–] 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    For shoplifting diapers? I can't even...

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  • [–] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but diapers kinda sounds like diamonds and minor kinda sounds like miner and diamonds are mined by miners who sometimes unionise but not like police unions which are good but workers unions which are like socialism which is like communism which is bad and anti-American and why do you hate America what do you want the terrorists to win?

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    Just when I thought America couldn't get any worse...

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  • [–] 4 points 20 hours ago

    to protect the children, tho.

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago

    Shooting a child in her mother embrace is incident ? from which universe ?

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago

    And nothing will change until enough people get together to change it. We all have three votes, our political vote, our financial vote (how we choose to spend our money), and finally a vote with our life in protest / revolution. Every government today exists because people voted with their life, they fought often mortally to create that government. It's the duty of civilians to vote for the country and government they want.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    American cops will never understand that they can just take a license plate and go knock on the door later, no, "I said stop and they are not stopping! The punishment for disobedience is death!"

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

    This was always my train of thought. Why not just get the license plate and let the suspect think they got away, then just catch them at home later. American cops are just trigger happy assholes.

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    You can steal plates or simply not have plates. What then? The problem is cops treat everyone as if they are extremely dangerous individual, without any evidence to the contary. I wouldnt even put it pass these idiots from shooting the infant even if the mother did comply. They are that damn paranoid.

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  • [–] 110 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    So, she stole diapers, didn't have a weapon, I can't imagine she was driving while holding up a child, and posed some sort of imminent threat?

    Where is the immediate threat to life and limb?

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    [–] 53 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    That is fucked up.

    Even if we accept the premise she was driving straight towards them, shooting her does not stop the vehicle.

    I don’t accept that premise, by the way.

    For a non violent property crime (of stealing diapers, probably one of the most ethical crimes you could do as a poor person) they could have mortised the license plate, they had video of her, they could have stepped aside and could have shot the vehicle’s tires.

    I see no universe where this makes any sense.

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