The Family of a 1-Year-Old Mississippi Boy Says Video Shows His Killing by Police Was Not Justified
Ben Crump says the officer should be fired and the Justice Department should investigate after Mississippi ruled the shooting justified.
- On Monday, the Mississippi Attorney General's Office ruled the Senatobia police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified, a decision civil rights attorney Ben Crump immediately challenged.
- Senatobia Police Sgt. Hunter Foster shot the toddler after the vehicle, driven by Vellesiya Wiley, accelerated toward officers inside a Walmart parking lot while they responded to alleged shoplifting.
- Veronica Roberson, Kohen's maternal grandmother, said 'the word justified has haunted me' since the ruling, while Crump argued officers escalated the situation by surrounding the car with weapons drawn.
- Earlier this week, Attorney General Lynn Fitch told 16 WAPT her office based the determination on facts and law, while Crump said the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is expected to release all body camera video today.
- Crump's legal team called for the Department of Justice to investigate the shooting, arguing the lethal force used against a 1-year-old was excessive and unjustified.
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The family of a 1-year-old Mississippi boy says video shows his killing by police was not justified
The family of a 1-year-old boy who was fatally shot when a police officer fired into a moving vehicle in Mississippi said Thursday they do not believe the shooting was justified after reviewing videos from officers' body-worn cameras at the…
Police intervened due to suspected diaper theft.
A shocking video released by CBS News captures the actions of police officers leading up to the fatal shooting of a one-year-old baby outside a Walmart store in Mississippi. The case has reopened the debate about the use of deadly force by police in the US, but also about
The tragic and infuriating incident took place last June in Memphis, and investigations found the police officers' actions justified.
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