Ohio cops release bodycam vid of officer shooting dead pregnant driver Ta’Kiya Young after she refused to leave her car
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Ohio cops released bodycam footage Friday showing an officer fatally shooting a pregnant mom of two when the suspected shoplifter refused to leave her car and accelerated toward him.
The video shows that just before Ta’Kiya Young, 21, of Columbus was shot in her black sedan outside a Kroger in Blendon Township on Aug. 24, officers repeatedly barked for her to “get out of the car!”
When Young asked why she was being told to exit her vehicle, which was in a handicap spot, she was told, “They said you stole stuff, do not leave.”
The mom of two sons, ages 3 and 6, replied, “I didn’t do s–t, the other girls was taking [stuff].”
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