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One-year-old killed and woman injured after Mississippi police shoot at car
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Morose hypothetical that I'm almost afraid to voice in case it gives some evil asshole an idea: most states have laws that attach murder charges to lesser crimes if a person dies in the process of committing that crime. Will Mississippi try charging this woman with murder for her baby dying during the process of shoplifting and fleeing police?
She wasn’t shoplifting… she had a receipt for the diapers
Do you have a source for this?
Because I've read 10 different reports of this now from all across the news sphere with various biases, and can't find a receipt mentioned anywhere.
I can 100% believe it to be accurate, from the reporting, even if they had a receipt, the police never had a chance to verify before deciding to shoot at them. Police rolling up to a Walmart responding to a call about diapers being shoplifted, and immediately shooting the first black people carrying diapers they see without talking to a single person is completely believable unfortunately.
I will point out in support however that no arrests have been made. So the police didn't arrest the unharmed mother for shoplifting? Unless there wasn't actually any shoplifting at all, maybe because they did have a receipt.
But without a source for the receipt claim, this looks like intentional disinformation, which isn't uncommon in these types of cases, lots of misinformation gets spread around very quickly.
I saw it posted on other social media and did just parrot what I read
But upon further examination I found this quote which is not definitive but they are asserting a very easily disprovable claim which makes me side with the victims as I would assume that the police would try and get the video of the shoplifting out if they had it
“Wiley denied police claims that her friend was shoplifting, and said the purchase of baby diapers was likely caught on camera in the self-checkout. She added she had not been charged by police.”
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2026/06/17/mississippi-mother-speaks-after-mississippi-police-officer-shoots-1-year-old-kohen-wiley/90593788007/
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/kohen-wiley-senatobia-shooting-mother/522-67b5ce4a-ed9c-4d0e-b4e8-10e54d2717a7
What happened to due process? I'm sure they will turn up a receipt if there is one.
I wonder why the cop found it reasonable to skip due process and go straight to execution. Maybe it has to do with how they had to be trained before firing at random civilians?
Most of the time, it needs to be a felony. Shoplifting diapers isn’t a felony. They may try to throw some sort of “she made the officers fear for their lives by driving away from them” BS at her to charge her with a felony assault… But just the shoplifting wouldn’t be enough for those laws to apply.
I saw a john oliver on this. They put a guy away for giving his car keys to a friend who then used the car in a burglary where they shot a guy. So I think the bar is low in a lot of states. Someone else said the diapers weren't stolen, but I am sure they will ring her up for failure to obey an officer or using a vehicle as a deadly weapon, then smack on that other charge who's name I forget.