Posted on 11/29/2025 7:47:14 AM PST by xxqqzz
An Ohio policeman has been acquitted of murdering a pregnant woman he fatally shot in a supermarket car park.
Connor Grubb opened fire at Ta'Kiya Young as he and another officer told her to get out of a vehicle on suspicion of shoplifting alcohol on 24 August 2023.
Bodycam video shows her car rolling slowly towards Mr Grubb outside the Kroger store in a suburb of Columbus. In footage, she could be heard asking: "Are you going to shoot me?"
The jury unanimously found him not guilty of two counts of murder, two charges of felonious assault, and two counts involuntary manslaughter. Ms Young, 21, was around 25 weeks pregnant. Her unborn daughter also died.
Mr Grubb declined to testify at the trial, which featured 17 witnesses, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Sean Walton, a lawyer representing the Young family, called the verdict "an American tragedy", the Associated Press reported.
Bodycam video of the incident showed police approaching Ms Young in her car, on suspicion she had shoplifted from a Kroger grocery store.
The video shows two officers speaking with Ms Young.
In the video, her vehicle appears to drive toward an officer who then fires as he commands her to exit the car.
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21 and she has a 6-year-old? And a 3-year-old?
Big time.
She could have pressed down on the accelerator at any time before he could get out of the way, using her car as a murder weapon. He was in fear of his life.
Which means that she got pregnant at 14, and again at 17. Both kids have been supported by the taxpayer every day of their lives, no doubt.
And people wonder why strict pro-life legislation is unpopular, even with many “conservatives”.
Which is just infuriating.
I don’t know why police are expected to risk their lives by not taking appropriate action when threatened.
Statutory rape is a totally normalized occurrence within the black American and Third World illegal immigrant communities.
We're not ready to have that conversation.
And there's this thing in cars called *gas pedals*. Just because it was going 2 MPH, doesn't mean it would have stayed that way.
FAFO. Don't aim your car at LEO's and accelerate towards them and expect a good outcome.
She wasn't as entitled and privileged to be immune from the consequences of her bad decisions as she thought.
Yes, I’ve referenced those bits many times here.
Why was the car going about 2 mph? If she had been stopped for the ticket or investigation, she should have been stationary.
+1
Just FYI (off topic)...Chris Rock lives in a very rich suburb of NYC called Alpine,NJ. It’s right across the Hudson from the city and it’s about 10 miles from Central Park as the crow flies. I driven by his house a couple of times (I love to roam around that town)...impressive!
And no apparent visible source of income, but driving a Lexus. Suggests she may have been into prostitution.
“He got Weeeeed! He got Weeeeed!”
“Biden voter”Past, present or future?
All three.
You left out using a deadly weapon - an automobile - in assaulting a police officer.
21 yrs old, 2 kids and another on the way with no apparent husband listed.
I read somewhere they have discovered what causes that.
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