Video footage of Kohen Wiley shooting released after toddler’s death deemed ‘justified’
‘The word ‘justified’ have haunted me since Monday,’’ the child’s maternal grandmother says
TL;DR
- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch stated the police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley was "justified."
- Footage of the shooting has been made public, first reported by Darkhorse Press.
- Family attorneys Ben Crump and Van Turner are representing the Wiley family and held a press conference.
- The family, including Kohen's grandmothers, expressed distress and anger over the "justified" ruling and the leaked footage.
- Attorneys described the footage as "excessive from the very start," with five officers drawing guns on two women and a baby.
- The officers were responding to a shoplifting call for a pack of diapers.
- Neither woman was arrested for shoplifting, and attorneys argued that even if they had been, it would not warrant such a response.
- Crump and Turner are calling for a federal investigation into the shooting.