im going to be sick. Mississippi police shot and killed a 1 year old baby boy. Kohen Wiley. he and his mother were just playing.
"someone ended it all before it could even start." - Carlos, Kohen's grandfather.
"Family say the aunt was driving the car and the mother was in the front passenger seat holding her child when the shooting happened."
a mother went to the grocery store with her 1 year old child and. the cops. murdered her baby boy. he was in her arms. in her arms. in her arms.
the cop who did this does not deserve to live. Kohen should still be alive. despicable. beyond words. there are no words anymore. the hatred of Black people is a plague on the world.
may Kohen's spirit find peace and be reborn to his mothers arms in another life. may his family grieve together in peace. fuck the colonial entity known as the United States.
please spread the word about the murder of this baby and the injuring of his family. if anyone can find the name of the officer, add it in a reblog please. same with the mother and aunt, and their current condition. i will update this post if i find it first.
Child was fatally shot and his mother’s friend is wounded after Senatobia police responded to shoplifting call
Kohen Wiley, the slain child, was in the car at the center of the shooting on Sunday alongside his mother and her friend, said Marquell Bridges, a local community advocate who is helping the family find legal representation. Kohen’s mother was physically unharmed, but her friend was seriously injured, said Bridges, the president and founder of an advocacy group called the Building Bridges Coalition.
Apparently a community rally was organized in Senatobia (video of protest included at that link) & the family has legal council.
The community gathered outside Senatobia City Hall on Tuesday evening as they remained concerned after a police officer shot and killed a 1-year-old over the weekend. Dozens of Senatobia natives were present at the rally, calling for justice for Kohen Kartier Wiley. “Today it’s in their community, tomorrow it’s in mine, tomorrow it might be on my doorstep. I have a child. I have grandchildren too,” Aretha Lester said. [...] Wiley’s family has retained prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump to represent them. “A 1-year-old child is dead because police officers in Mississippi opened fire on a car in a crowded Walmart parking lot,” Crump said in a statement. “Kohen Wiley was a baby. His mother, who has not been charged with any crime, says she was trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car. They fired anyway, leading to the death of an innocent 1-year-old. We intend to seek justice for baby Kohen and the life that was stolen from him.”
Also gonna add that Marquell Bridges livestreamed the protest on Facebook, and the cops fucking tear gassed the protestors (seen around 17:20, or see here).
They tear gassed protestors, at a protest over the murder of a 1-year old and the potentially fatal injuring of another woman, and the traumatizing of an entire family.
And the police department has the gall to ask for "patience." There is no saving the United States.
