Video shows moments before fatal police shooting of 1-year-old in Mississippi
Newly released bodycam video shows the moments before a Mississippi police officer fired his gun into a car in June, killing a 1-year-old boy sitting on his mother's lap. This week the state's attorney general concluded the officer who fired the fatal shot was justified in using deadly force. The encounter began after the child's mother allegedly shoplifted a pack of diapers, an accusation she…
A Mississippi police officer, Sergeant Hunter Foster, fatally shot a one-year-old boy, Kohen Wiley, in June. The Senatobia police officer was responding to a shoplifting call when he fired his gun at a moving vehicle. Kohen was killed in the shooting. The Mississippi Attorney General's office cleared Foster of criminal wrongdoing after conducting a month-long investigation.
However, Kohen's family disputes the shooting's justification. A civil rights lawyer, Ben Crump, has stated that Foster was not in danger when he opened fire. The family's legal team is calling for a federal investigation into the shooting.
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