Police Shooting of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi Attorney General Says
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Wild FeedThe 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.
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.
Better not watch Jimmy Kimmel or any political comedy then!
Does this look like a comedic post to you?
I'm saying it's super mainstream to denigrate or make fun of the appearances of people as part of criticizing their actions or politics.
Personally I find it immoral and stupid. Saying e.g. "Trump is fat" as a way of showing your disapproval won't hurt him and will just make things worse for others, but it's so common that I usually don't even bother making a fuss.
I respect your position and good luck maintaining it.
every time i see one of those headlines i wonder which one is going to be the one that light the spark?
Beyond words horrible
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.
When you have a hammer and a ducktape, have been trained to only use a hammer, taught that everything is a nail, all you can do is hammer nails.
The tape is just there. Hammer is all that's ever used
Cops are retarded, they just say these types of statements in an attempt to justify their murder as self defense, but these government agencies allow it to happen when it's not against rich corrupt white people.
They don't even need to, they know who she is they can just charge her bank account directly with zero violence, zero public officer duty labor hours, zero weapon discharge bullets costs.
The police involved should be treated as murderers.
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?
They do if you have a 6,000 sq/ft home.
You might be the bad guys if you kill children and say "It was justified" when pressed on it.
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.
legally punishiable by the death of your child but
Ftfy it's worse than what you said
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?
“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.
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.
Yeah, shooting at the driver of a moving vehicle should almost never be justified, except in extreme cases.
Life and limb of shareholder money.
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
Lookout, Jimbo! She's comin' right for us!
This, but unironically.
https://www.southparkstudios.com/video-clips/61i3mb/south-park-let-s-get-those-kids
We outsourcing our police to Israel now?
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.
When it's convenient to do so, they equate the vehicle to a giant gun the driver is pointing at them. That way they don't need to think at all and can pull trigger until scary thing stops.
If they don't escalate the scene to 999 right away, how can they justify shooting of innocents? Your logic is getting in the way of their fun! /s
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?
How the fuck is shooting into a moving vehicle ever justified?
Release the body cam and the Walmart video.
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!!!
Mississippi. What an absolute shithole
Sadly, it happens in every state now. This shit just doesn't make the news unless it happens to a young, wealthy white woman.
unless it happens to a young, wealthy white woman.
We're literally on a post about it happening to a black family.
Yes. That's my point. This shit happens everywhere everyday in the US. The only notable thing is you heard about it this time. It should be national news.
This story has been national news.
You have a point, but this isn't the story to make said point.
They murdered a baby over a nonviolent misdemeanor that would have had at most had a $1000 fine. We need to wall off a lot of the red states from civilized society, kind of like escape from NY/LA.
Maybe when they are forced to deal with their own shit hole states they'll make them livable.
"Serve and protect"
"The public?"
"No, the property owners. Diapers recovered."
"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.
Nah, he got a paid "suspension" and used the time to make more money as "security" at the night club, where he either beat or murdered more people of color.
Walmart probably won't even clean the blood off the box before putting them back in the shelf at full price
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?
Look up the "paper bag test", it's a long standing American law enforcement doctrine. Sometimes formal, sometimes informal, always in effect.
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.'
I thought it would be to pop a paper bag and see if they react by shooting back
I shit you not, I'm from an authoritarian police state and shit like this still doesn't happen there.
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.
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.
Why not go full Isreal and call them not even human?
Cops are terrorists. No exceptions.
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.
On a positive note she doesn't need diapers anymore.
Yikes that comment's so dark the cop probably shot it too
Dude…
ACAB
Ghoul
Those people are heartless monsters.
Were the police trained in Isreal? Or is this just the result of standard cop Killology training?
por que no los dos?
Idk about Mississippi, but the NYPD does get IDF training.
When is the inbred, Fitch, going for her MAGA plastic surgery? The Mississippi Oblast continues to be a Top 10 Dump in the United Oblasts of AmeriKa.
Yeah that looks pretty much like how I'd expect her to look. Maybe with a little more lip filler.
We don't need to go there, y'know. We can criticize her decisions without attacking how she looks.
Like the other person said. That face is an expression of her loyalty to Great Leader.
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.
I mean I'd attack people for getting a Nazi tattoo. Same thing here.
Yes because that's an ACTUAL hate symbol. It's not equivalent, and it most certainly is not the same thing here.
Plastic surgery is not equivalent to a Nazi tattoo.
Branding a swatiska on yourself isn’t the same as having excessive makeup/cosmetic surgery actually.
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.
Nor her appearance, nor her party membership, nor even if she was the one worse human would justify that police kills her 1 year old kid.
Her appearance is relevant
No. It's not. Everyone adjusts their appearance to some degree to fit in with their chosen group.
If you can't make a coherent argument against someone's behavior, or politics or beliefs, you fall back to their appearance.
It's why bigots will attack transgender people for not "passing" or attack Muslims for wearing a hijab, or misogynists attack women for having died hair, or too many piercings or why racists will attack the way other people dress.
It's easy. It's lazy. It's just "othering" people in the dumbest way possible.
She's done PLENTY to criticize, no matter what she looks like.
Oh yeah, critizing her behaviour is clearly more important and (i hope) more productive.
But it's still worth mentioning that of course she has mar-a-lago face.
No it's not! That's my whole point! Her appearance is beyond irrelevant! Focus on what matters!
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.
