The police of the municipality United Statesreleased a video this Friday showing some of its agents fatally shooting young pregnant woman of African descent through the windshield of the car he was in.

The incident took place last week when a young woman, Takiya Young, 21, was accused by a grocery store employee of stealing several bottles of alcohol. As a result of the shot, Yang and the fetus were killed.

Authorities did not disclose the identities of the agents involved or the ethnicity of the victim, who was identified by social organizations as a woman of African descent.

The video, captured by the shooter’s body camera, begins with Young in the car in the city’s parking lot. Westerville mallnorthern suburb of Columbus.

Agent at driver’s door repeatedly asked Young to get out of the car while another cop with a body camera stands in front of the car.

Yang, who has two children ages 6 and 3, says she hasn’t stolen anything from the store and doesn’t want to get out of her car. At this moment the officer in front of the car pointing a gun at a pregnant woman at the same time ordering her to leave.

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When the vehicle starts moving, agent shoots once at Young. After the shot, the car rolls slowly and crashes into the mall, with Young reappearing reclining in the passenger seat.

On Friday, Blendon Police Chief John Belford said in a statement that author of fatal shot is on administrative leave and that he asked the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to conduct an independent investigation into the incident.

Belford justified the delay in posting the video on the grounds that the need to remove some passages in accordance with state law, as well as to allow them to be reviewed by lawyers.

Human rights organizations have repeatedly accused the police in the United States of disproportionate use of violence against people of African descent in the country.

According to Mapping Police Violence, which collects nationwide data on police violence, in 2022, police killed at least 1,201 people in the US. Of these, 26% were black, despite representing only 13% of the US population, the association explained. (EFE)