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    Accused of stealing 20 dollars worth of diapers? Death penalty without trial for you and the occupants of your vehicle.

    Also, you want the footage that your tax dollars paid for? Fuck you.

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      ++downvote shield

      Technical correction: She’s accused of driving her vehicle towards officers, which they used to justify the shooting.

      Disclaimer: I am not saying the shooting was justified. I know nothing about where the officers were or how she was driving.

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    Wow so the extraducial execution of innocent babies is justified for the petty crime of shoplifting in Mississippi? That is fuckin crazy. The attorney general is a demonic souless hag.

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    in what SHIT HOLE country do ‘cops’ draw weapons for stolen diapers?!?!

    the diapers were insured with loss prevention, deadly force was NOT justified.

    BLACK LIVES MATTER

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      Giving trump ownership gives him far more credit than his ego deserves. This has been a long time in the making, he’s just the latest in the long line of demagogues.

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        This is racism that’s been festering forever. The Boomers couldn’t let it go and passed it on. Greatest generation my ass

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          The Boomers couldn’t let it go and passed it on. Greatest generation my ass

          Just a heads up, that’s not another term for Baby Boomer and has never been associated with them. The Greatest Generation were born between 1901 and 1927. Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. And there’s an entire generation, appropriately called the Silent Generation, separating them.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation

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        Yeah, this is Mississippi police killing 2 a black people person. Unfortunately that’s nothing new, but it’s still something to be angry about

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      Buddy, this is as American as apple pie, lmao. Where do you think the police came from? They used to be slave catchers!

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      We’ve been killing black babies longer than Trump’s been around but yeah, I’m not keen on the mask coming fully off. It’s gonna get loud in here.

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    The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which investigated the shooting, alleged on the day of the shooting that “the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one.”

    As of press time, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has released none of the video surveillance of the shooting of Kohen Wiley, neither the body-cam footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot where Wiley was shot. A short clip from a bystander was posted on the internet shortly after the shooting, showing neither the shots being fired nor the car driving towards officers.

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      Don’t forget:

      Neither woman has been charged with a crime, and officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting.

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      And they knew there was a baby in the car, and there has been no evidence released to indicate shoplifting of diapers in the first place. The murderer (cop, just to be crystal clear) should be in prison. This sounds like a total shitshow from the moment the cops were called

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    Thank GOD the Child was ONE YEARS OLD Instead of a Fetus! THAT would have been a Tragedy!

    -LITERALLY Pro Life Republicans!

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    In civilized countries, police officers are smart enough to just get out of the way of such a car, and deal with it later without shooting.

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        This is the same police station whose chief was just fired last month, for, get this, extremely vile racism.

        Just a wild coincidence, I’m sure. Also just a wild coincidence that the racist chief of police didnt punish the child murder when he was caught being racist:

        Since Vanderford took over as chief, Foster has separately faced at least two complaints that he used racially offensive language with co-workers, Mississippi Today reported in July and August. In the months leading up to the shooting, Foster referred to a Black officer as a “Black motherfucker” and directed another derogatory remark toward a white co-worker who has a daughter with a Black woman, according to internal department complaints.

        There’s no indication that Vanderford took any disciplinary action against Foster, who was allowed to remain on patrol.

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    This was in response to shoplifting!? SHOPLIFTING!?

    I guess that was on me for assuming the context would make this better and not 100 times worse.

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      But, didn’t you read? The officers said that the car may have went in their general direction.

      Stolen diapers for the one year old that the police slaughtered is justified to kill a black person.

      God I fucking hate this world.

      FFVII Revelation is coming. I’m stealing the black fucking materia and calling meteor myself

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    had stolen a pack of diapers. The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, and Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him.

    stealing diapers or bread, should be a lesser crime, than stealing jewelry or clothing. Neither should justify shooting when running/driving away. If they put their hands up holding a baby, they are unlikely driving super fast, and may in fact doing step 1 of surrendering.

    Even if a diaper thief were to use a hostage as human shield, shooting is only legally justified in Israel, where hannibal directive extended to civilians is part of their non-negotiation hatred towards the “palestinian problem”, and where Mississippi has and may still view violent oppression as the preferred “solution” to their racial tensions.

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    Mississippi Department of Public Safety has released none of the video surveillance of the shooting of Kohen Wiley, neither the body-cam footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot where Wiley was shot.

    That shit would have been all over youtube the fucking day after the shooting if it was actually justified.

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      The unredacted videos.

      Though… I’m fine with reasonable censoring. Want to see the cops face consequences for their actions, not the blood/gore of a one year old.

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          They used that excuse to justify killing Renee Good when you could see in the video that she was driving away and the thug with a badge kept trying to put himself in the way