Police in a Columbus suburb fatally shot a pregnant woman in an Ohio supermarket parking lot after she accelerated her car toward an officer, police officials said.

Ta’Kiya Young, 21, of Columbus, died Thursday evening in Blendon.

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    1 year ago

    She charged the cop in her car! Of course they are going to shoot! What the hell was she thinking? Cops didn’t shoot a shoplifter, they shot a murderer mid murder attempt.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I agree with this. I also want to see the video because sometimes what a cop calls charging isn’t how I would use the word. But until I see otherwise, this sounds like a reasonable response.

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      1 year ago

      Call me crazy, but if I had a car coming right at me I’d be diving out of the way of it, not continuing to stand in the path of the car to try to shoot the driver in the off chance that that doesn’t cause them to entirely lose control of the vehicle that coming right at me

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      1 year ago

      Maybe, get out of the way? Like police officers in civilised societies?

      If a car is going fast enough to endanger you, killing the driver will not stop the car.