Bodycam clip released in fatal police shooting of Mississippi one-year-old
Mississippi authorities released bodycam footage showing a police officer fatally shooting a one-year-old child during a response to a shoplifting report in a Walmart parking lot. While the state attorney general deemed the force justified, the family's lawyer has condemned the action as excessive.
Why it matters
The incident has reignited national debates regarding police use-of-force policies and the safety of bystanders during law enforcement interventions.
Figure caption, Mississippi releases footage of police shooting that killed infant
Mississippi authorities have released body camera footage showing how a toddler was fatally shot by a police officer responding to a report of shoplifting in a Walmart car park.
Kohen Wiley, aged one, was on his mother's lap in a moving car when officers surrounded the vehicle in the city of Senatobia on 14 June.
The state's attorney general found the policeman was justified in using force, and the officer's lawyer argued in a statement to the BBC that the driver was attempting to kill law enforcement.
The child's family disputes that the shooting was justified. Their lawyer, Ben Crump, has called the police response "excessive from the very start".
Crump said an allegation of shoplifting "does not warrant the death" of a child.
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