Young’s shooting death is currently being investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and the officers responsible for it are currently on paid administrative leave, Blendon Township police Chief John Belford
confirmed. The police department is expected to release body camera footage of the incident this week, per theBelford said in a Friday video message that two officers who were in the parking lot of the grocery store were alerted by employees that Young had taken several liquor bottles without paying and was fleeing in a vehicle without a license plate.
Belford’s version of events has come under heavy scrutiny from advocates who point out the well-documented history of police dishonesty as a tactic to justify fatal shootings and other violence. Thethat at a small gathering to protest Young’s death late Friday, a woman named Malissa Thomas-St. Clair, co-founder of Mothers of Murdered Columbus Children, said she had been Young’s school teacher and expressed outrage at the circumstances of Young’s death.
as the Nieman Foundation has explained. And in this case, police are seemingly banking on a pregnant Black woman and young mother who stole alcohol receiving less public sympathy., including one who was holding her baby when an officer appeared to punch her in the face,