密西西比州总检察长林恩·菲奇的办公室周一宣布，6月在密西西比州塞纳托比亚一家沃尔玛停车场发生的警察枪击事件“是正当的”，该事件导致坐在母亲腿上的1岁男童科恩·威利身亡。
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office announced on Monday.
这位共和党总检察长的声明说：“今天，总检察长办公室宣布已完成对2026年6月14日塞纳托比亚一起事件的审查，该事件涉及塞纳托比亚警察局的一名警员。在这起事件中，总检察长办公室认定使用武力是正当的。根据《密西西比州法典》第45-1-6条，此次审查是在密西西比州调查局进行调查之后进行的。”警员当时正在响应一起入店行窃报警，指控威利的母亲韦莱西亚·威利和拉托亚·费雷尔偷了一包尿布。
“Today, the Office of the Attorney General announced it has completed the review of a June 14, 2026 incident in Senatobia involving one officer with the Senatobia Police Department,” the Republican attorney general’s statement said. “In this incident, the Attorney General’s Office found the use of force was justified. Pursuant to Section 45-1-6 of the Mississippi Code, the review followed an investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.”Officers were responding to a shoplifting call alleging that Wiley’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, and Latoya Ferrell had stolen a pack of diapers.
警员到达时，这两名女子带着孩子走出商店，进入她们的车辆并开始驶离停车场。警员拔出了武器，韦莱西亚·威利把儿子举起来，向警员表明车里有孩子。一名警员向车内开枪，在她抱着孩子时将其打死。一颗子弹还击伤了费雷尔。
The women exited the store with the child as officers arrived, entered their vehicle and began to leave the parking lot. Officers drew their weapons, and Vellesiya Wiley lifted her son up to show the officers that a child was in the car. One officer fired into the vehicle, killing the baby as she held him. A bullet also wounded Ferrell.
负责调查这起枪击事件的密西西比州调查局在枪击发生当天声称，“司机朝警员的方向驶去，几乎撞到一名警员。”截至发稿时，密西西比州公共安全部尚未公布任何关于科恩·威利遭枪击事件的监控录像，既没有随身摄像头录像，也没有威利中枪的沃尔玛停车场俯拍摄像。枪击发生后不久，一名旁观者拍摄的短片被发布到网上，片中既没有显示开枪的画面，也没有显示汽车朝警员驶去。
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which investigated the shooting, alleged on the day of the shooting that “the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one.”As of press time, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has released none of the video surveillance of the shooting of Kohen Wiley, neither the body-cam footage nor the overhead video from the Walmart parking lot where Wiley was shot. A short clip from a bystander was posted on the internet shortly after the shooting, showing neither the shots being fired nor the car driving towards officers.
两名女子均未被指控任何罪行，官员也未公布任何入店行窃的证据。威利和两名女子都是黑人；被认定为调查对象的警员亨特·福斯特是白人。
Neither woman has been charged with a crime, and officials have not released any evidence of shoplifting. Wiley and both women are Black; the officer identified as the subject of the investigation, Hunter Foster, is white.
密西西比州公共安全部一位发言人向《密西西比自由新闻报》证实，枪击事件的监控录像将很快通过公共记录申请向媒体机构公布。《密西西比自由新闻报》已提交申请，要求获取现有录像。
A spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety confirmed to the Mississippi Free Press that video surveillance footage of the shooting will be released to media organizations in short order via public records requests. The Mississippi Free Press has submitted a request for the available footage.
“你们手上沾着血。不只是亨特·福斯特，还有所有参与掩盖此事的人，包括总检察长林恩·菲奇，以及由此引发的一切后果，”密西西比州活动人士、架桥联盟主席马奎尔·布里奇斯周一在菲奇发表声明后对《密西西比自由新闻报》说。
“There is blood on your hands. Not just Hunter Foster, but everyone that is complicit in the cover-up, including Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and everything that happens as a result,” Marquell Bridges, a Mississippi activist who is president of the Building Bridges Coalition, told the Mississippi Free Press on Monday after Fitch’s announcement.
7月，《密西西比今日报》报道了内部投诉，显示福斯特在怀利遭枪击前几天被指控对一名同事发表种族冒犯性言论。此外，枪击事件发生后，福斯特在两起法庭案件中被指控警方不当行为的先前事件也浮出水面。其中一起案件被驳回；另一起以保密和解告终。
In July, Mississippi Today reported on internal complaints showing that Foster faced accusations of making a racially offensive remark to a coworker days prior to Wiley’s shooting. Additionally, two previous incidents in which Foster was accused of police misconduct in court cases surfaced after the shooting. One of those cases was dismissed; the other ended in a confidential settlement.
上个月，塞纳托比亚市解雇了其白人警察局长哈罗德·范德福德，此前《纽约时报》、《密西西比今日报》和Verite报道了他多次使用种族侮辱性词汇的种族主义短信。
Last month, the City of Senatobia fired its white police chief, Harold Vanderford, after the New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite reported on racist text messages in which he repeatedly used racist slurs.
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