Blendon Township also sent its use of force policy for the police department. The policy states the following about how officers should respond to a moving vehicle:
"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants. An officer should only discharge a firearm at a moving vehicle or its occupants when the officer reasonably believes there are no other reasonable means available to avert the imminent threat of the vehicle, or if deadly force other than the vehicle is directed at the officer or others. Officers should not shoot at any part of a vehicle in an attempt to disable the vehicle."
https://news.wosu.org/news/2023-09-01/blendon-township-police-release-body-cam-footage-showing-fatal-shooting-of-takiya-young
Good shoot?

Don't try to run people over.

Trigger happy cops.

Cant wait to see the riots from this.

"Young was taken to St. Ann's Hospital, where she died."
Nothing about the baby.

Imminent Threat Definition: A present and identifiable hazard with a high probability of causing damage.

Since he was also directly in front of the stopped vehicle, one would likely argue it was not feasible for him to take other reasonable steps to move out of the path.

Looks pretty open and shut to me. Going to be hard to nail him.

This seems like poor decisioning by the responding officers. There were there to assist in opening a car for someone else, Kroger employee says lady walking buy stole stuff, she obviously is going to try and flee, and the cop who shot went and stood in front of the car, not off to the side.

Without further evidence, this looks like a bad shot. And it pains me to say that.

I can't listen to the audio so don't know what was said. But driving your car into a cop who has his gun drawn seems really stupid and will generate the result seen in the video most of the time I would think.

I first thought it was a good shot, but then I started to think about being in that situation and I'm not so sure it was a good shot.

Let's assume you're an innocent person leaving a store, getting into your car and about to pull out of the parking spot, all the sudden a cop starts banging in your window.

I would be confused, flustered, is the car still in park or did I already put it in drive? What if while trying to stop or turn the car off you accidentally tap the gas pedal or bump the shifter?

Idk, being a cop is hard and I tend to side with them more often than not…

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Don't try to run people over.

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I think the officer may have fired before the vehicle moved.

After reviewing the video several times, I would say the vehicle was moving at about 1MPH with the front wheels turning to the right as the officer at the front of the vehicle moved to the side, out of the vehicle's way, and discharged his firearm in the maneuver.

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This seems like poor decisioning by the responding officers. There were there to assist in opening a car for someone else, Kroger employee says lady walking buy stole stuff, she obviously is going to try and flee, and the cop who shot went and stood in front of the car, not off to the side.

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Yes, the cop was trying to prevent her from fleeing. How is that a poor decision? If he stands to the side she easily flees and now we've got a car chase or another thief that just gets away with it. Fleeing the cops by running into one with your car will get you shot.

rgvag11 said:

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aggielostinETX said:

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Don't try to run people over.

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I think the officer may have fired before the vehicle moved.

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I don't agree with that at all. Especially when watching the slowed down version. But that is what pretty much all liberals and blacks will probably see.

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I think the officer may have fired before the vehicle moved.

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It that is the case than that changes everything and this is a terrible shoot.

aggiephoenix02 said:

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I first thought it was a good shot, but then I started to think about being in that situation and I'm not so sure it was a good shot.

Let's assume you're an innocent person leaving a store, getting into your car and about to pull out of the parking spot, all the sudden a cop starts banging in your window.

I would be confused, flustered, is the car still in park or did I already put it in drive? What if while trying to stop or turn the car off you accidentally tap the gas pedal or bump the shifter?

Idk, being a cop is hard and I tend to side with them more often than not…

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yeah not buying the i was scared so i ran him over excuse

"Are you going to shoot me" are some pretty dumb last words. Maybe don't try to drive past/over a cop with his gun drawn.

Having said that, that's a bad shoot unless the suspect was known and wanted for something pretty bad/imminently dangerous.

It was reported the baby died too.

I've never thought once in my life to intentionally not follow police orders to provide requested information or follow instructions given by the authorities.

She made a very poor choice in that situation.

Why dont any of these body camera videos start with a person complying with police officers?

OH..because if that happens no one gets BTFO.

It's a very simple formula.

Car was moving but the officer was already moving to the side of the car and she was turning away from him when he shot.

I get the "stopping her from fleeing" but if he need to do that then putting his body in front of the car was a really, really poor choice.

I support the police and they have an impossibly tough job, but this looks to me to be a poor approach.

Edited to add: Of course the lady made a stupid decision in the process of breaking the law after she had already broken other laws.

On another note, should the officers have had any consideration in their decision to shoot for the baby?

She was showing.

Well, not everyone is as smart and as capable as you, many people are simpletons. Being mentally slow on the uptake shouldn't be a death penalty…

Dimebag Darrell said:

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rgvag11 said:

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aggielostinETX said:

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Don't try to run people over.

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I think the officer may have fired before the vehicle moved.

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I don't agree with that at all. Especially when watching the slowed down version. But that is what pretty much all liberals and blacks will probably see.

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Exactly. The car was moving way before he shot.

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On another note, should the officers have had any consideration in their decision to shoot for the baby?

She was showing.

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Yeah, in a bikini...but hunched over with clothes on? And I read elsewhere she was shoplifting alcohol.

I would be surprised if they could tell she was pregnant and not just thick.

What's the other one?

If your gonna be dumb, you better be tough too…

"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants."

The car was moving 1-2 mph. The cop could have rolled to the side without shooting. Very bad shoot.

XXXVII said:

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"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants."

The car was moving 1-2 mph. The cop could have rolled to the side without shooting. Very bad shoot.

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I think it was faster than that. These things are happening fast and the adrenaline surge from thinking the car is going to be floored into you is probably real. These cops are humans who don't want to die or end up eating through a straw, same as you and me.

It's so easy for internet peeps to armchair QB though.

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"Are you going to shoot me" are some pretty dumb last words. Maybe don't try to drive past/over a cop with his gun drawn.

Having said that, that's a bad shoot unless the suspect was known and wanted for something pretty bad/imminently dangerous.

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Technically her last words were "Ow!"

Dimebag Darrell said:

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XXXVII said:

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"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants."

The car was moving 1-2 mph. The cop could have rolled to the side without shooting. Very bad shoot.

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I think it was faster than that. These things are happening fast and the adrenaline surge from thinking the car is going to be floored into you id probably real. It's so easy for internet peeps to armchair QB though.

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Bad take.

Trigger happy cop was already side-stepping out of the path of the car as he shot. He could have just not shot. The car had momentum anyway and would not have stopped regardless of him shooting.

XXXVII said:

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"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants."

The car was moving 1-2 mph. The cop could have rolled to the side without shooting. Very bad shoot.

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And she could have floored it any second.

The courts have ruled countless times that a vehicle is a deadly weapon and trying to run someone over with it, even if just starting to move, can be considered a lethal threat and met with a lethal response.

That said, the only reason this is getting any kind of attention outside the local area is because she was black. The media loves to try to stoke more anti-police and racism flames.

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Putting your safety as risk several times a day is a big requirement. Should police policy be to release anyone who resists arrest if the crime was "low level"?

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Dimebag Darrell said:

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XXXVII said:

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"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants."

The car was moving 1-2 mph. The cop could have rolled to the side without shooting. Very bad shoot.

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I think it was faster than that. These things are happening fast and the adrenaline surge from thinking the car is going to be floored into you id probably real. It's so easy for internet peeps to armchair QB though.

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Bad take.

Trigger happy cop was already side-stepping out of the path of the car as he shot. He could have just not shot. The car had momentum anyway and would not have stopped regardless of him shooting.

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That image does not line up with what I witnessed in the video. He had already shot by that point.

I think we can all agree on one thing...I wish she has been white, so no one would care, it wouldn't be in the news, and we would all be able to agree that she acted stupidly and should not have tried to ram an officer with gun drawn with her vehicle.

Cop murdered that lady in the kroger parking lot.

There ain't no talking around that fact.

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XXXVII said:

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"When feasible, officers should take reasonable steps to move out of the path of an approaching vehicle instead of discharging their firearm at the vehicle or any of its occupants."

The car was moving 1-2 mph. The cop could have rolled to the side without shooting. Very bad shoot.

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And she could have floored it any second.

The courts have ruled countless times that a vehicle is a deadly weapon and trying to run someone over with it, even if just starting to move, can be considered a lethal threat and met with a lethal response.

That said, the only reason this is getting any kind of attention outside the local area is because she was black. The media loves to try to stoke more anti-police and racism flames.

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THIS is what I would like to challenge ANY poster on this website to refute.

The image is after he shot, but you can see him shifting to the side as he shoots in the video. Hard to capture that in a still image.

The lady was really dumb, but these cops were losing their minds over a suspected shoplifter it seems. Unless there is more to the story that made her an actual threat that hasn't come out yet.

Was that the minimum force necessary to gain compliance?

The lawlessness is getting bad enough that I'm finding it hard to care about this kind of stuff. Stop stealing ***** Stop running from the cops. She didn't do something worth dying for, but she also put herself in a ******ed situation