On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”. The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi.

On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby’s mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a friend, had stolen a pack of diapers. Neither woman has been charged with a crime. Officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting.

According to police reports, on the day of the shooting, the women and child exited the store, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot when officers arrived.

The police drew their weapons. Wiley lifted the baby up to indicate that there was a child in the car. An officer, identified by other records as Sgt Hunter Foster, fired into the vehicle, killing Kohen Wiley and wounding Ferrell. Foster is white; both Wileys and Ferrell are Black.

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    What else do you expect to happen when you hire people from the proud boyz circles into the police force? I am not sure this person even feels remorse.

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    “As AG I conducted an investigation and concluded the baby was black, therefore the shooting was justified.”

    Fucking disgusting.

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        “According to the FBI the one year old male suspect was to be growing up as a nazi communist, as they found out by using their predictive AI. In any different situation they would also have shot the baby. In an interview with the officer, he told reporters ‘he asked chatgpt whether to shoot the baby’, to which it replied ‘yes, you should kill the fucking nazi communist’, so he did.”

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    They still havent released the body camera footage, even to the family. The families lawyer had an independent analysis done that shows the cop fired through the side windows, not the front, proving they were never in danger. This is the same police station that just had its police chief fired last month because of constant and aggreious racism that he was texting his friends/coworkers.

    This is rank of a coverup.

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      Unfortunately, a BIG chunk of Gen Z men and boys have fallen prey to far right “influencers” like Andrew Tate and Clavicular, so they can’t be counted on to do the right thing about anything.

      Us millennials, being in our 30s to 40s, are still young enough to get shit done, though, as are the parts of Gen X that haven’t been infected with fascist ideology themselves. And Gen Z women and girls, of course.

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        Problem is, we have famillies. Cant go protesting if you got to work & care. Parents are basically slaves to the system. Unless we want to be in such need to, you know steal diapers and get prolly killed.

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        I’m an elder millennial with a young adult Gen z son who is definitely not into that garbage but Gen Z is definitely leading the revolution charge worldwide

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      How about you get out of your ass and help instead of waiting for someone else to do all the work?

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        If you’re trying to start a revolution, you need all sorts of support and infrastructure. Not every revolutionary can or even should be a warrior.

        Consider that some revolutionaries are old, infirmed, or otherwise unsuitable for strenuous physical activity, but can still contribute to their efforts without physically fighting or demonstrating.

        For example, Oskar Schindler saved over 1000 Jews from execution as a doughy business magnate, never throwing a single punch or firing a single bullet.

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    That’s a relief, I’d hate to know that a police officer murdered a literal infant unjustifiably. The depths of the depravity are fathomless.

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    They tell us that prosecutors, courts, and the police are “separate” entities, but that’s a lie. They’ll form up together like Voltron to prevent families of people murdered by pigs from ever getting justice.

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    Officers were responding to a shoplifting call alleging that Wiley’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, and Latoya Ferrell had stolen a pack of diapers. The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, and Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him. A bullet also wounded Ferrell.

    She lifted the baby to show the officers that a child was in the car. The officers shot the baby to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist

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    Child lives are cheap in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

    Actually I think it’s just all lives. Except Congress and the ultra wealthy.

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      Republican congressmen got shot up at their own baseball team practice and still voted for the NRA. They don’t value their own lives either.

      No value but shareholder value in the USA.