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Officer who shot and killed Black toddler in Mississippi resigns from police force
The Guardian • • general
Key Points:
- Hunter Foster, the Mississippi police officer who fatally shot one-year-old Kohen Wiley, has resigned from the Senatobia police department, with his resignation accepted on 21 October and effective immediately.
- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch declared the shooting "justified," despite the incident resulting in the toddler's death while in his mother's arms.
- Body-camera and surveillance footage show Foster firing three shots at a vehicle leaving a Walmart after a shoplifting report, hitting the driver and killing Kohen; the mother and another woman accused of stealing diapers have not been charged.
- Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Kohen’s family, has called for a federal investigation and for Foster to be decertified to prevent future police work, condemning the decision as devaluing the life of a Black child.
- Kohen Wiley would have turned two years old on 1 November.
