Morose hypothetical that I’m almost afraid to voice in case it gives some evil asshole an idea: most states have laws that attach murder charges to lesser crimes if a person dies in the process of committing that crime. Will Mississippi try charging this woman with murder for her baby dying during the process of shoplifting and fleeing police?
Because I’ve read 10 different reports of this now from all across the news sphere with various biases, and can’t find a receipt mentioned anywhere.
I can 100% believe it to be accurate, from the reporting, even if they had a receipt, the police never had a chance to verify before deciding to shoot at them. Police rolling up to a Walmart responding to a call about diapers being shoplifted, and immediately shooting the first black people carrying diapers they see without talking to a single person is completely believable unfortunately.
I will point out in support however that no arrests have been made. So the police didn’t arrest the unharmed mother for shoplifting? Unless there wasn’t actually any shoplifting at all, maybe because they did have a receipt.
But without a source for the receipt claim, this looks like intentional disinformation, which isn’t uncommon in these types of cases, lots of misinformation gets spread around very quickly.
I saw it posted on other social media and did just parrot what I read
But upon further examination I found this quote which is not definitive but they are asserting a very easily disprovable claim which makes me side with the victims as I would assume that the police would try and get the video of the shoplifting out if they had it
“Wiley denied police claims that her friend was shoplifting, and said the purchase of baby diapers was likely caught on camera in the self-checkout. She added she had not been charged by police.”
Exactly the kind of thing I was searching for but hadn’t managed to find from over 10 different articles. You’d think going through that many places, both national coverage, and local… that quote would be way more common. Especially with current police sentiment.
Some articles mentioned no one had been charged with any crimes… but none of them included anything directly refuting the shoplifting claim itself.
Just goes to show how massively important it is to find multiple sources. Even when you go out of your way to do so, you still only get whatever part of the picture they bothered to tell you. Did the reporter not even investigate enough to get that info even though it seems like the most obvious thing to check on first? Whether the initial shoplifting claim that started all of this was even valid? Did they have that info, but left it out on purpose?
Morose hypothetical that I’m almost afraid to voice in case it gives some evil asshole an idea: most states have laws that attach murder charges to lesser crimes if a person dies in the process of committing that crime. Will Mississippi try charging this woman with murder for her baby dying during the process of shoplifting and fleeing police?
She wasn’t shoplifting… she had a receipt for the diapers
Do you have a source for this?
Because I’ve read 10 different reports of this now from all across the news sphere with various biases, and can’t find a receipt mentioned anywhere.
I can 100% believe it to be accurate, from the reporting, even if they had a receipt, the police never had a chance to verify before deciding to shoot at them. Police rolling up to a Walmart responding to a call about diapers being shoplifted, and immediately shooting the first black people carrying diapers they see without talking to a single person is completely believable unfortunately.
I will point out in support however that no arrests have been made. So the police didn’t arrest the unharmed mother for shoplifting? Unless there wasn’t actually any shoplifting at all, maybe because they did have a receipt.
But without a source for the receipt claim, this looks like intentional disinformation, which isn’t uncommon in these types of cases, lots of misinformation gets spread around very quickly.
I saw it posted on other social media and did just parrot what I read
But upon further examination I found this quote which is not definitive but they are asserting a very easily disprovable claim which makes me side with the victims as I would assume that the police would try and get the video of the shoplifting out if they had it
“Wiley denied police claims that her friend was shoplifting, and said the purchase of baby diapers was likely caught on camera in the self-checkout. She added she had not been charged by police.”
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2026/06/17/mississippi-mother-speaks-after-mississippi-police-officer-shoots-1-year-old-kohen-wiley/90593788007/
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/kohen-wiley-senatobia-shooting-mother/522-67b5ce4a-ed9c-4d0e-b4e8-10e54d2717a7
Exactly the kind of thing I was searching for but hadn’t managed to find from over 10 different articles. You’d think going through that many places, both national coverage, and local… that quote would be way more common. Especially with current police sentiment.
Some articles mentioned no one had been charged with any crimes… but none of them included anything directly refuting the shoplifting claim itself.
Just goes to show how massively important it is to find multiple sources. Even when you go out of your way to do so, you still only get whatever part of the picture they bothered to tell you. Did the reporter not even investigate enough to get that info even though it seems like the most obvious thing to check on first? Whether the initial shoplifting claim that started all of this was even valid? Did they have that info, but left it out on purpose?
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