Courtney Hergesheimer/The Columbus Dispatch/AP Sandriana McBroom, right, and Makhiya Mcbroom, center, light candles that spell out "RIP Kiya" at an August 25 vigil in Columbus, Ohio. Once completed, the investigative findings will be forwarded to the county prosecutor who will make a decision on pursuing any potential charges, he said. The state probe could take “several weeks or months,” according to Steve Irwin, the press secretary for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, which includes the bureau. Police say the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is conducting an independent investigation of the shooting. Young was pregnant at the time of her death and the fetus did not survive, the Franklin County Coroner’s Office previously said. The footage is edited and spliced together. The body camera footage released by the Blendon Township Police Department blurred the faces of the officers. Police allege officers were victims of assault He said he assumed the officer believed he could not get out of the way of the vehicle quickly enough. “I understand why it could be justified but, again, I don’t make that decision,” Steel told reporters Friday, referring to the shooting. A weapon is also a 2000-pound vehicle that somebody puts in gear and is driving at you.”
Officers call for backup and break the window to reach the driver, who appears to be slumped over to one side.īrian Steel, executive vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge #9, said, “A weapon is not just a firearm. The car rolls onto a sidewalk between two brick columns and into a building. Ta'kiya Young Courtesy Walton + Brown, LLP “Get out of the f**king car,” the officer standing in front of the car says, his gun drawn and his left hand braced on the hood of the car, the video shows.
Police previously said a grocery store employee had notified officers that a woman who had stolen bottles of alcohol was in a car parked outside the store. “I didn’t steal sh*t,” Young can be heard saying as the two argue back and forth with her window ajar. “They said you stole something….get out of the car,” the officer at the window says, telling Young not to leave. The originally released body camera video shows an officer approaching Young’s driver’s side window outside the Kroger and repeatedly telling her to get out of the car.Ī second officer, who is also wearing a body camera, then steps in front of the sedan.
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. Newly released police body camera footage shows an officer firing through the windshield of a pregnant woman’s car after she was accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in a Columbus, Ohio, suburb last week.
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