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Police Officer blamed in wrongful death lawsuit · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I am sorry, I truly am sorry for the loss
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  Speaker 1: of life, for the loss of life of your daughter, granddaughter, mother, niece, sister, friend,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the connection you may have had to Taquia Young,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you lost her. That's that's basic humanity
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  Speaker 1: right there. But this lawsuit that's been announced, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: but I see I see little in the way of
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  Speaker 1: merit and even less in the way of logic. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not familiar with what's going on, here's the story
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  Speaker 1: from the WSYX six website. The family of Taquia Young
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  Speaker 1: has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Kroger, a store employee,
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  Speaker 1: and Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb, who is charged
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  Speaker 1: in her twenty twenty three killing. Young is twenty one
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  Speaker 1: year old pregnant mother who was fatally shot in August
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three after officers confronted her outside of Kroger
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  Speaker 1: store over led shoplifting. Body camera video shows Young attempting
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  Speaker 1: to drive away, striking Grub before he fired into her windshield,
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  Speaker 1: killing her and her unborn child. I'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: part later. The lawsuit claims that Grub acted recklessly and
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  Speaker 1: the Kroger staff improperly escalated the situation. Grub faces murder
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  Speaker 1: and manslaughter charges. Trial for him is set in November
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  Speaker 1: for November third, the lawsuit was now is Thursday. Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Young's grandmother, Nicole Young, had joined attorneys in formally announcing
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  Speaker 1: it at a during a news conference. Young's family members
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  Speaker 1: still have lots of unanswered questions about how their loved
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  Speaker 1: one was killed in a Kroger parking lot. That's a
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  Speaker 1: quote from attorney Jane. I'm sorry, Anthony Pearson, how is
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  Speaker 1: that possible? Almost two years and they still don't have
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  Speaker 1: much needed answers. Dramatics are way too often a focal
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  Speaker 1: point of stories like this. The family needs answers, They
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  Speaker 1: want closure. Yeah, the answers are right there, video recorded
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  Speaker 1: inside the store, outside the store, and on body camera
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  Speaker 1: from the police officer. Two police officers, if I recall correctly,
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  Speaker 1: Kroger and I guess they didn't name the employee in
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  Speaker 1: this story, but I'm assuming the Kroger employee is named
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  Speaker 1: in the the paperwork the filing. Kroger acted inappropriately? In
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  Speaker 1: what way the staff was they improperly escalated the situation
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  Speaker 1: by what saying? Hey, stop stealing booze? From the store,
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  Speaker 1: give me that back. And when she didn't give it
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  Speaker 1: back and took off out of the store with the
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  Speaker 1: stolen alcohol, they called police in How is the isn't
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  Speaker 1: that what you do? Don't you call the police when
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  Speaker 1: somebody's stealing your stuff? How is that improper? And how
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  Speaker 1: does that escalate a situation where where deliberate, blatant theft
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  Speaker 1: is occurring. The theft was the escalation to the situation.
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  Speaker 1: Has she just gone in there to buy some fish
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  Speaker 1: sticks or something that'd be fine, but stealing escalated the situation.
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  Speaker 1: As for Officer Grubb, he didn't walk up and start shooting.
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  Speaker 1: How many times do you remember the details of that,
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  Speaker 1: Zach was it was like twenty three times or something.
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  Speaker 1: She was ordered out of the car, was signed a
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous number. It was over the top. I do remember it,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know the exact count. Way too many.
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  Speaker 1: Stealing the alcohol, fleeing the store, refusing commands to exit
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  Speaker 1: the car from a lawfully licensed police officer. That's all
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  Speaker 1: bad enough. Then she put the car in gear, the
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  Speaker 1: three thousand pounds or so piece of machinery, put it
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  Speaker 1: in gear and put it in motion and send it
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of the police officer and the police
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  Speaker 1: BAE officer, as would any of you used the means
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  Speaker 1: at his disposal to protect himself and defend his life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to be harsh, but that is the reality
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  Speaker 1: of what you saw, what I saw, what everyone saw.
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  Speaker 1: When that car went into gear, when that accelerator was hit,
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  Speaker 1: when it went towards this officer standing there giving her
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  Speaker 1: a lawful command to get out of that vehicle, that
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  Speaker 1: car became a weapon. A baseball pad. A baseball pad
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  Speaker 1: is a tool for sport, but if you swing it
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  Speaker 1: at someone's head, it's a weapon. Same thing. You put
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  Speaker 1: that car in gear, you hit the accelerator, you go
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  Speaker 1: after somebody standing in front of you, it is a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: You are attempting to do harm to them, and they
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  Speaker 1: are within their rights, whether they're a police officer or not,
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  Speaker 1: to defend their life. Is this suit is, it'll go forward.
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  Speaker 1: There will be drama, there will be news coverage, but
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  Speaker 1: if there is any cosmic justice, you will not add
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  Speaker 1: insult to injury by claiming that in somehow, some way,
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  Speaker 1: this is the right thing to do. It is very
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  Speaker 1: sad that you lost this twenty one year old person
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  Speaker 1: out of your life, out of your world. But it's
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  Speaker 1: equally sad to turn what memories you have of her
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  Speaker 1: into some financial circus for money. This is about money.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't the criminal trial. Criminal trial for the officer
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  Speaker 1: starts November third. This is for money, and that's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: That's wrong. No one did anything intentionally to hurt her
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  Speaker 1: until she attempted to do something intentionally to hurt them,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would have occurred had she been
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  Speaker 1: a law abiding citizen. I'm sorry to sound harsh, but
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  Speaker 1: that's the reality, or maybe that's just me. We've got
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  Speaker 1: some time. If you guys want to chime in, feel
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  Speaker 1: free A two one nine eight eighty six eight two
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  Speaker 1: one WTV or eight hundred and sixty ten WTV. I
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  Speaker 1: wish it would have ended better for all involved. I
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  Speaker 1: wish for the officer and for for miss Young and
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  Speaker 1: for that baby that she was carrying, which you know
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  Speaker 1: because this story, and that's what I said, I talk
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  Speaker 1: about that Lai the unborn child. It's an unborn child
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  Speaker 1: in this case. I just I had to wonder what
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  Speaker 1: kind of what kind of situation, what kind of story
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  Speaker 1: would this have to be for that unborn child to
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  Speaker 1: be the fetus, you know, they those terms get so
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  Speaker 1: easily intermingled. But in this case, it was an unborn baby.
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  Speaker 1: She was caring and that is oh, that's a sad,
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  Speaker 1: sad tragedy. But it's not necessarily a tragedy because a
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  Speaker 1: police officer drew and fired a weapon. It's a tragedy
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  Speaker 1: because someone carrying that unborn baby chose to put himself
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  Speaker 1: in this situation. And if you're pregnant, why why are
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  Speaker 1: you stealing alcohol? Anyway, should have been stealing some fruit, juice,
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  Speaker 1: some high protein. It's a sad story. We live in
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  Speaker 1: sad times.