Calls for justice are growing after 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was shot and killed by police responding to a shoplifting call at a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi.
Police reportedly fired into the car of a shoplifting suspect. The officer alleged the vehicle was accelerating toward him at the time of that the deadly shooting. The family of the toddler is now seeking an independent autopsy after his death.
Their attorney Benjamin Crump questioning the police response, saying, “They were called over a box of diapers, and a family now has to bury their baby. You cannot put those two things next to each other and call it reasonable policing!”
Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, was a passenger in the vehicle. She says the car was not moving toward the officers and added she held the toddler up so officers would know there was a baby in the car, just before the shots were fired. Her emotions evident as she said, “I watched my baby take his first breaths, and watched my baby take his last breath.”
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