Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley

Mississippi released video Thursday showing the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by a police officer whom state authorities have cleared of criminal wrongdoing.

Kohen Wiley was killed in June when Senatobia police officer Sgt. Hunter Foster fired his gun into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call. Kohen’s family says footage of the fatal encounter shows the shooting was not justified.

The Mississippi Attorney General’s office said this week its monthlong investigation found that Foster’s use of force was appropriate. Foster’s attorney, Martin Zummach, has said his client had “no choice” but to shoot at the vehicle because it was going to hit him.

Zummach confirmed to NBC News that he represents Foster, and that Foster is the officer who fired his weapon.

Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney representing Kohen’s family, said Foster was not in danger when he fired the shot that killed the 1-year-old. Crump said the video shows Foster fired that shot from the passenger side of the car.

Kohen’s close relatives watched the footage taken during the June 14 encounter in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. The video included footage from the camera worn…

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