Pregnant woman shot dead by cops in US’s Ohio. Ohio police have released fresh video of the incident in which a 21-year-old pregnant woman, Ta’kiya Young, was fatally shot by a cop after being accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in Columbus last week.
According to CNN, a Blendon Township police officer approached Ta’kiya Young’s driver-side window outside a Kroger Grocery Shop in Westerville, Ohio, and repeatedly told her to get out of the car.
The vehicle is then approached by a second officer, who is also wearing a body camera.
“They said you stole something….get out of the car,” the officer at the window is seen telling Young in the newly released video.
“I didn’t steal,” Young can be heard saying as the two argue back and forth with her window slightly ajar.
As a Pregnant woman shot dead by cops in US’s Ohio, according to police, a grocery shop employee had earlier informed officers that a lady who had stolen bottles of alcohol was in a car parked outside the business.
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Young is heard saying, “You gonna shoot me?” at one point.
According to CNN, Young can then be seen turning the wheel of the car while the officer next to her window continues to urge her to exit.
A few seconds later, the officer in front of the car’s hood fires through the windscreen.
Following the shooting, the cops went alongside the vehicle, calling for the driver to halt. The car crashes into a building after rolling onto a pavement between two brick columns.
Officers then called for backup and broke the window to reach the driver, who appeared to be slumped over to one side.
Brian Steel, executive vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge #9, said, “A weapon is not just a firearm. A weapon is also a 2000-pound vehicle that somebody puts in gear and is driving at you.”
“I understand why it could be justified but, again, I don’t make that decision,” Steel told reporters Friday, referring to the shooting. He said he assumed the officer believed he could not get out of the way of the vehicle quickly enough, the publication reported in its report.
The woman, 21-year-old Ta’kiya Young – whose death her family called a “criminal act” and “gross misuse of power and authority” after seeing the footage – was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
