US cops shoot black pregnant woman dead as she refuses to exit car | Watch

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Ta’Kiya Young – a pregnant black woman in Ohio – was shot dead last week after refusing to exit her car. Bodycam footage shows a police officer accusing her of theft and repeatedly demanding that she get out of vehicle. As Young protests, a second officer standing in front of the car joins his shouts for her to exit the car.

The latter shot her dead through the windshield after Young put the car in gear and accelerated forward. “Are you going to shoot me?" she can be heard asking them seconds before she turned the steering wheel to the right and moved the car forward. The vehicle travelled some 50 feet before hitting the grocery store’s brick wall and coming to a stop on the sidewalk.

Officers then broke the driver's side window – which Blendon Township Police Chief John Belford said was to get Young out of the car and render medical aid. However footage of medical assistance was not provided. “The video did nothing but confirm their fears that Ta’Kiya was murdered unjustifiably ...

and it was just heartbreaking for them to see Ta’Kiya having her life taken away under such ridiculous circumstances," attorney Sean Walton told AP. A statement from the family dubbed her death “avoidable" and a “gross misuse of power and authority". The names of the two officers and further information about them — including their ages and race — have not been released.

The cop who shot Young is currently on paid administrative leave while the second officer on the scene has returned to active duty. Walton denied that Young had stolen anything from the grocery store. He said his firm found a witness who saw Young put down bottles of alcohol as she left the store.