Protests broke out in Senatobia, Mississippi, amid mounting anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

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.

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  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Bettersten Wade was so troubled about Kohen Wiley’s shooting that she drove from her home in Jackson, Mississippi, to participate in the protest. She’s no stranger to losing loved ones after encounters with police. A jury convicted a Jackson police officer in the 2019 death of her brother George Robinson, though an appeals court overturned the conviction in 2024. Her son, Dexter Wade, died after a Jackson police cruiser struck him in March 2023, and she searched for him for months until August 2023, when she learned that he had died and the city had buried him in an unmarked pauper’s grave.

    Holy crap. How do you not become radicalized after this shit happens to your loved ones? This is all absolutely horrible and I’ll bet that you can just smell the cover up coming off of that public safety commissioner.