Missouri police officers shot five times a pregnant woman who had her hands up in the middle of an incident that is being investigated at the administrative level.
The incident was reported on Friday in the Independence Plaza neighborhood of Kansas City, in the middle of an intervention for “carjacking” (carjacking).
At the moment, the agents involved are suspended from work while the investigation is completed.
The victim, identified as Leonna Hale, aged 26 was in a car with a man who fled from the vehicle and threw himself over a fence.
Eyewitness footage reviewed by The Kansas City Star shows officers yelling at suspects to get out of the car
The Police demanded the woman, on multiple occasions, to lie on the ground, and, allegedly, she she reported that she was pregnant and that she could not bend over.
Next, the female, of African American origin, told the agents that there was a weapon in the car. As Hale walked away from the car, the officers pulled the guns on her. The woman started running and that’s when they shot her.
“She didn’t pull out a gun against them“, Shedanja, the person who recorded the images, told the aforementioned media outlet. “She didn’t even have a stick in her hand,” he added.
While recording the scene, Shédanja can be heard expressing: “They shot her! My God, they shot him!
“What the fuck!” he continues.
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“My God, they shot her and they keep handcuffing her!” she questions.