Link: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/police-shooting-of-1-year-old-kohen-wiley-was-justified-mississippi-attorney-general-says/

The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office announced on Monday.

“Today, the Office of the Attorney General announced it has completed the review of a June 14, 2026 incident in Senatobia involving one officer with the Senatobia Police Department,” the Republican attorney general’s statement said. “In this incident, the Attorney General’s Office found the use of force was justified. Pursuant to Section 45-1-6 of the Mississippi Code, the review followed an investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.”

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.

How the fuck is shooting into a moving vehicle ever justified?

Release the body cam and the Walmart video.

Ghoul

So, she stole diapers, didn't have a weapon, I can't imagine she was driving while holding up a child, and posed some sort of imminent threat?

Where is the immediate threat to life and limb?

Where is the immediate threat to life and limb?

They're claiming that the other woman was driving the vehicle towards officers, but shooting at a moving vehicle is never justified anyway.

It's all bullshit to protect the police here.

Jesus, if they are trying to paint themselves in the best possible light with this, that place is a shithole. There isn't any part of this that even warrants pulling a gun. A fucking pack of diapers? No weapons? And a known baby in the vehicle?

Why did any of that need to be dealt with immediately and with deadly force?

"Serve and protect"

"The public?"

"No, the property owners. Diapers recovered."

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

WHY? Why did the fucking idiots pull their guns? How is such escalation of force justified for this situation?

Neither woman has been charged with a crime, and officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting. Wiley and both women are Black; the officer identified as the subject of the investigation, Hunter Foster, is white.

Cops are terrorists. No exceptions.

Look up the "paper bag test", it's a long standing American law enforcement doctrine. Sometimes formal, sometimes informal, always in effect.

Yeah that looks pretty much like how I'd expect her to look. Maybe with a little more lip filler.

Fuck that cop and fuck that attorney general. In no goddamn way is it Justified to kill someone over fucking pack of diapers that Walmart doesn't even fucking report. That Walmart should be protested against and the attorney general should get zero rest.

We don't need to go there, y'know. We can criticize her decisions without attacking how she looks.

ACAB

"In a subsequent investigation we discovered the diapers were in fact damaged by the officer. The officer in question has been executed."

No, fired. Then hired at a different district.

Stop me if you heard this one

Senatobia police said the officer believed the driver was moving toward him.

"So there I was! Getting ran over by a mother that stole dipers. When my training kicked in and I shot the first black male there. God saved me!"

https://www.wapt.com/article/police-shooting-that-killed-1-year-old-senatobia-child-ruled-justified/74182398

Were the police trained in Isreal? Or is this just the result of standard cop Killology training?

On a positive note she doesn't need diapers anymore.

My takeaway from this is that any time I see a cop, there's a chance they shot a baby to death and suffered no consequences? Are they even human at this point?

paper bag test

In the United States, the "brown paper bag test" is a term in Black oral history used to describe a colorist discriminatory practice within the Black community in the 20th century, in which an individual's skin tone is compared to the color of a brown paper bag. The test was used to determine what privileges an individual could have...

Not where I thought that was going...

Never having heard of this before, I assumed it was 'the paper bag might have a weapon in it! Bang bang bang.'

Mississippi. What an absolute shithole

“You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.” - Dune, Frank Herbert

Substitute firing a weapon for chewing off a leg.

por que no los dos?

Those people are heartless monsters.

It's worth mentioning how she looks because that ghoulish plastic surgery look is an identity marker for the worst humans in the country.

The rich right wing lunatics who identify themselves by attaining that mar-a-lago face are also devoted to performative cruelty, like she is doing.

Her appearance is relevant here like her party membership is.

Yikes that comment's so dark the cop probably shot it too

Idk about Mississippi, but the NYPD does get IDF training.

Like the other person said. That face is an expression of her loyalty to Great Leader.

It is not exclusive to MAGA women and honestly pushing to judge people's intent by how they look is leaning into some ugly stereotypes and discrimination.

Consider this a warning: We can speak about the horrors of this case without leaning into misogyny and attacking this woman for how she looks.

Comments attacking anyone for how they look will be subject to removal.

I shit you not, I'm from an authoritarian police state and shit like this still doesn't happen there.

You might be the bad guys if you kill children and say "It was justified" when pressed on it.

So what? It's still attacking a woman based on appearance. It's not ok, no matter who the woman is, and I will die on this hill.

Now if you want to attack her CHARACTER because her office decided that SHOOTING A 1 YEAR OLD BECAUSE HIS MOTHER STOLE DIAPERS is somehow ok, have at it.

Not only white but two misconduct charges and an internal complaint days prior to the shooting for making racially offensive remarks to a coworker. Yet this is the guy the AG let’s skate for murdering a baby because the vehicle was “driving in their direction” and “nearly struck him”. Last month their police chief was fired for texting racial slurs, on a completely unrelated note.

I mean I'd attack people for getting a Nazi tattoo. Same thing here.

This, but unironically.

https://www.southparkstudios.com/video-clips/61i3mb/south-park-let-s-get-those-kids

Ya hear that folks? Shoplifting diapers for your child is legally punishiable by death but if you brutally rape someone else’s child, you can be president of an entire nation!

Scorched earth people. NEVER forgive, and NEVER let them forget they not only allowed this, but approved it.

Plastic surgery is not equivalent to a Nazi tattoo.

I thought it would be to pop a paper bag and see if they react by shooting back

Branding a swatiska on yourself isn’t the same as having excessive makeup/cosmetic surgery actually.

That is fucked up.

Even if we accept the premise she was driving straight towards them, shooting her does not stop the vehicle.

I don’t accept that premise, by the way.

For a non violent property crime (of stealing diapers, probably one of the most ethical crimes you could do as a poor person) they could have mortised the license plate, they had video of her, they could have stepped aside and could have shot the vehicle’s tires.

I see no universe where this makes any sense.

Okay, I'm not a cop, so perhaps I'm missing something here, but why did they approach the car with weapons drawn?

Should there not be some sort of restraint in the employment of firearms? I mean, that's how I was trained.

Why not go full Isreal and call them not even human?

Life and limb of shareholder money.

If police can shoot at you for stealing a pack of diapers worth $20 or less, why won't they come to your house after a burglarly unless you lost more than $600 worth of stuff?

What really gets me is that tracking down vehicles is like the purpose of Flock and other ALPRs and dead people usually can’t hit the brakes.

So even having had a chance to see the license plate personally and living in a world where helicopters and magnetic AirTag like devices exist if you don’t have access to Flock or some other ability to simply follow the fucking car for whatever reason they still think they were justified in killing a child in order to… not stop the car before it would have hit an officer if it was going to because, like I said earlier, dead people don’t generally have the ability to stop cars…

And let just be totally honest, if you have time to register speed and direction of a car, unholster, unsafety, cock, aim, and fire, then you or whoever else had time to get out of the fucking way of the car!!!

Lookout, Jimbo! She's comin' right for us!

We outsourcing our police to Israel now?