#kohen wiley

Remember, at no point had anyone been charged with a crime nor found guilty of a crime. There was no trial—there was only an allegation followed by a swift execution. And even if there were petty theft involved, theft is not a crime punishable by death.

No human life is worth taking over (allegedly) stolen Walmart merchandise.

The police lie. Constantly. Walmart lies. About everything.

Mississippi, the US state with the highest population of Black citizens, is no stranger to racist violence, gerrymandering, and deeply ingrained segregation. this week, on July 12th, a police officer in Senatobia, Mississippi shot and killed a ONE YEAR OLD CHILD

Kohen Wiley should be alive. he should be playing and growing and learning. instead, his mother now has to navigate trauma and grief, all while trying to seek justice for her baby and her friend

if you want to help them, the family is currently asking for calls to demand the body-cam footage be released. You can find the link for relevant numbers here

Andrew Bell at Mississippi Free Press:

SENATOBIA, Miss.—People scattered in a Walmart parking lot on Tuesday as law enforcement officers, who were wearing gas masks and lined up under the store’s grocery-side entrance, unleashed tear gas on the crowd that had gathered to protest the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. Two days earlier on June 14, the young Black child died after a Senatobia police officer fired into a moving car, killing him and injuring the driver. Officers, who had been responding to a call alleging that someone had tried to steal a box of diapers, claimed that the car was driving toward the officer when he fired—a claim that some witnesses have disputed. On Tuesday evening, the mayor and the Senatobia Board of Aldermen placed the officer on administrative leave. He has not been publicly identified.

Hours earlier, 200 people gathered about a mile away from the Walmart in downtown Senatobia outside City Hall, voicing exasperated anguish over the child’s death. Leon White, a Senatobia resident since 1999, raised a protest sign that read, “The People Demand: End to Police Terror.” Along a section of Front Street, cornered off by police with snipers perched atop a row of vintage storefronts that include a soda shop and pharmacy, he walked with others angrily shouting, “No Justice, No Peace” in one accord and yelling profanities aimed at police. White said that the city’s residents’ tension and distrustful relations with police, “has been a problem that has been building for a long time.” “For many years, the police force was fine, but in recent years—I don’t know why—it’s become a big problem,” he said. He blames it partly, but sharply, on inadequate safety training. He added that Senatobia does not have a crime problem. Indeed, Senatobia’s crime rate is below the national average and one of the lowest crime rates in Mississippi. The city has a population of around 8,500 residents, around 40% of whom are Black. Its police force is composed of about 30 officers. “We are like a big family here, and people come from all over the immediate area to shop,” White said.

Anyone that calls a murdered child “a human shield” is evil. How about we blame the people who see children as a target? Your reaction to someone holding up their child to show there is a child in the car shouldn’t be to open fire directly at the baby and clearly unarmed parent. She held him up to deescalate because she believed there was good in them and they wouldn’t kill her innocent child but they did.

I constantly see people talking about how prices of food and water and houses n shit are rising.. homeless rates are rising, stuff of that nature.

Guys. Wake up. We shouldnt have to pay for this shit in general. A literal baby was killed the other week because his mom was supposedly ‘stealing’ diapers.. (her friend who was also there had the damn receipt im pretty sure)

And i see people saying, “its just diapers, no one should be killed for stealing the bare necessities!!”

1st of all, no one should be killed for stealing in general.

2nd of all, no one should have to steal the bare necessities, nor at all.

3rd of all, nothing should have to be bought, especially bare necessities, SUCH AS,

Food IN GENERAL (yes all of it)

WATER

HOUSING

Etc.

Does no one else think is messed up how we have to pay for FUCKING WATER AND FOOD? On a planet where we didnt choose to be born? None of us? Just me..?

Its so fucked up that millionaires and billionaires are so rich and can just buy another mansion, have 6 fucking tennis courts, eat whatever they want whenever they want, and a 1 year old CHILD was just killed because his mom was ‘stealing diapers’.

Does that sentence not make you disgusted?

“Stealing diapers”

NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO STEAL DIAPERS. EVER.

Billionaires are allowed to keep scamming people and stealing money from poor communities, further fueling this late-stage capitalism we are in, making the poor poorer and the rich richer. And i’m supposed to sit here and let it happen? I mean, why not. Because every middle-class cishet white man is already doing it. Already thinking, “well trump said he was going to fix the economy.. no more wars”

Cant you see whats right under your fucking noses?

Is not that hard to just pull your head out of your ass and look around you. On the TV (not fox news, ew), on your phone. Go outside. Walk downtown. Look at all those homeless people, people starving IN their homes, people in Ukraine STILL being bombed, people in Palestine STILL being bombed, children in Sudan, Congo, etc, people in India dying because temperatures are reaching over 45 degrees C/110 degrees F, the Afghan girls not allowed to speak in public, the pedophiles who run all of our governments. ALL. The bombings in Iran? Nothing?

Is it enough for you to finally pay attention? Because thats not even all of it. Not even half.

But yeah, global warming isnt real, and Tr*mp is just trying to ‘free’ everyone in Iran from the evil regime, and all lgbtq people are child predators and and and but but but (sarcasm obvi)

How much clearer do i have to spell it out for you?