Police say 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young, suspected of shoplifting, was killed after she accelerated her car toward an officer.
Body camera footage showing the final moments of a pregnant Black woman who was shot and killed by police in an Ohio parking lot last week has now been released.
Suspected of shoplifting, police say Young was killed after she accelerated her car toward an officer. Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said the delay resulted from a small staff trying to process the video and properly redact certain footage in accordance with Ohio law. The family will be able to review the video before it's made public, he said.The police chief gave a brief account of the shooting in an Aug.
Young was expected to give birth to a daughter in November. She also was the mother of two young sons, ages 6 and 3. An online effort to pay her funeral expenses has raised nearly $7,000.
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