Police have not provided further details on the moments when Young was shot. “The body camera footage I’ve reviewed also confirms the officer was directly in the path of the car.” “The officer who was directly in the path of the oncoming car fired one shot through the front windshield,” the chief said. Young then put the car in gear and accelerated, Belford said.
One officer went to the driver’s side of Young’s car and told her to stop and get out multiple times, Belford said, while the other officer moved to the front of the vehicle. She allegedly took bottles of alcohol without paying. Young was among them, according to the employee, who pointed her out sitting in her car in the parking lot. In a video statement a day after the shooting, Belford said two officers were helping someone get into a locked car when a supermarket employee told them several people were leaving with stolen items.
The family will be able to review the video before it’s made public, he said. “It goes beyond the unjustifiable.”īlendon Township Police Chief John Belford said the delay resulted from a small staff trying to process the video and properly redact certain footage in accordance with Ohio law. “She was an unarmed pregnant mother of two,” he said. Sean Walton, an attorney for the Young family, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the family grew frustrated with delays in the police department timeline of releasing body camera footage publicly. READ MORE: Breonna Taylor supporters relieved by charges against police involved in her killing The footage, which comes more than a week after her death, showed one officer at the driver’s side window, repeatedly demanding that Young “get out of the car.” 24 shooting outside a grocery store in the suburb of Blendon Township. Young, a 21-year-old from Columbus, was pronounced dead shortly after the Aug. The footage shows Young slowly accelerating toward the officer in her path as he yells for her to stop before firing the single bullet that ended her life. Young’s family has seen the video, the family’s lawyer said Friday. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio authorities on Friday released bodycam video showing the f atal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a young pregnant Black woman.
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