Ohio authorities release body-cam video showing the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a young pregnant Black woman whose unborn child also died.
Ohio authorities on Friday released body-cam video showing police officers fatally shooting a pregnant 21-year-old Black woman in her car in what her family denounced as a “gross misuse of power and authority.”
Ta’Kiya Young of Columbus was pronounced dead shortly after the Aug. 24 shooting outside a grocery store in the Columbus suburb of Blendon Township. Her unborn daughter did not survive. The video, which comes more than a week after her death, shows another officer at the driver’s side window repeatedly demanding that Young “get out of the car.”The officer by her window tells Young that she has been accused of theft. She protests, and he repeats his demand that she get out of the car. She turns the steering wheel to her right and accelerates toward a second officer, who was in the car’s path.
Officers then break her window, which Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said was to get Young out of the car and render medical aid, though video of the medical assistance was not provided. Young’s family members were able to view the footage before its public release and released a statement Friday through their attorney, Sean Walton.
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