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Anger Mounts in Senatobia Over Police Killing of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley (www.mississippifreepress.org)

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SENATOBIA, Miss.—People scattered in a Walmart parking lot on Tuesday as law enforcement officers, who were wearing gas masks and lined up under the store’s grocery-side entrance, unleashed tear gas on the crowd that had gathered to protest the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

Two days earlier on June 14, the young Black child died after a Senatobia police officer fired into a moving car, killing him and injuring the driver. Officers, who had been responding to a call alleging that someone had tried to steal a box of diapers, claimed that the car was driving toward the officer when he fired—a claim that some witnesses have disputed.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260618120719/https://www.mississippifreepress.org/anger-mounts-in-senatobia-over-police-killing-of-1-year-old-kohen-wiley/

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 54 points 5 days ago

Bettersten Wade was so troubled about Kohen Wiley’s shooting that she drove from her home in Jackson, Mississippi, to participate in the protest. She’s no stranger to losing loved ones after encounters with police. A jury convicted a Jackson police officer in the 2019 death of her brother George Robinson, though an appeals court overturned the conviction in 2024. Her son, Dexter Wade, died after a Jackson police cruiser struck him in March 2023, and she searched for him for months until August 2023, when she learned that he had died and the city had buried him in an unmarked pauper’s grave.

Holy crap. How do you not become radicalized after this shit happens to your loved ones? This is all absolutely horrible and I'll bet that you can just smell the cover up coming off of that public safety commissioner.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is the latest among several incidents illustrating the need for better rules for how police interact with people in cars:

Police should not stand in the path of a car, especially to try to detain the driver. That's dangerous, and creates a pretext for violence.
Police should not shoot at cars because they believe the car is about to hit someone. The probability of hitting bystanders is elevated, and successfully killing the driver renders the car uncontrolled, not immobile.

Incidents where someone is continually trying to use a car as a weapon rather than to escape may justify shooting at the car, but they are rare.

[–] sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Police should not exist. You can't reform an evil thing (an alleged monopoly of violence) into something useful.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's always stupid because they should be able to understand that bullets will not stop a car. There's no justification in the vast majority of the cases where cops spray bullets at cars, and it often results in the shooting of innocent bystanders.

Many years back there was an incident local cop who shot at a car's tires to try to stop someone, and one of their bullets bounced off the tire and was returned to sender - the cop shot himself by ricochet. He survived as it wasn't a vital hit, but I bet he didn't shoot at anymore cars.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Just because we are on the subject, I'm guessing they sell tools to quickly puncture tires which can fit in a police man's belt. It would be insanely safer and more effecient.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

I don't think so? Destroying the tires doesnt stop the car either, it makes it harder to stear and slows it down after some seconds, but not immediately and doesnt stop it completely.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If they didn't actually take the item out of the store without paying for it, they didn't break the law.

Also, based on that call, the officers knew for sure there was probably going to be an infant in the car they recklessly fired into.

People should just shoot cops first and claim said defense. It's the same thing they'll do to you. No one hears your side of the story when you're dead.

[–] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

By the cops own logic we should be shooting cops on sight to make the streets safer.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

At this point I'd consider it a valid self-defense argument.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to not want jury duty, but now I cant wait for the next time.

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Same here. My wife gets jury duty almost annually, and has served on a murder trial. It's been like a decade since I had to show up

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also, based on that call, the officers knew for sure there was probably going to be an infant in the car they recklessly fired into.

Well, you know, there's been that rash of baby-supply shoplifting rings hitting Walmarts to uh...sell for...crack or...something...maybe...

(Exactly what you said)

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's been established so many times already that 90% of cops in America shoot first and then maybe ask questions later so what is there to dispute?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

they also shoot to kill to fill out less paperwork. because any death will just come out of taxpayers money, DAs sometimes dont charge them, or just make them retire. because leaving victims alive, will potentially draw too much attention, more lawsuits, more problems down on the PD.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Fucking pigs. I'd be there with the citizens if it in my town.