密西西比州一名警察在母亲怀中开枪打死一名1岁男婴，该警察本周辞职，事发城市的市长周五证实了这一消息。
The police officer who fatally shot a 1-year-old boy in Mississippi as his mother was holding him resigned this week, the mayor of the city where it happened confirmed on Friday.
据当地媒体Action News 5查阅公开记录，该警官名为亨特·福斯特。市长格雷格·格雷夫斯表示，福斯特周三向塞纳托比亚市政委员会提交了辞职申请。福斯特的离职发生在密西西比州总检察长办公室宣布调查人员认定其在6月枪杀婴儿科恩·怀利一事中使用武力“合理”两天后，以及该市公共安全部门发布警官执法记录仪拍摄的枪击画面前一天。
The officer — identified in public records as Hunter Foster by local media outlet Action News 5 — offered his resignation to the Senatobia Board of Aldermen on Wednesday, Mayor Greg Graves said. Foster’s departure came two days after the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office announced that investigators had determined his use of force in the June shooting of the infant, Kohen Wiley, was “justified,” and a day before the city’s public safety department released officers’ body camera footage of the shooting.
塞纳托比亚市政委员会成员周五未立即回应MS NOW的置评请求。
The members of the Senatobia Board of Aldermen did not immediately respond to requests for comment from MS NOW on Friday.
MS NOW获得的执法记录仪视频更详细地还原了6月14日下午发生的事情。根据周四同步发布的一份调查报告，当时警方接到报警前往一家沃尔玛超市，调看一名涉嫌骚扰顾客男子的监控录像。报告和视频显示，警方正在查看录像时，一名店员打断他们，报告称有两人——后来被确认为怀利的母亲韦莱西娅·怀利及一名朋友——正在逃离现场。
The body camera footage, obtained by MS NOW, sheds more light on what happened on the afternoon of June 14, when officers were summoned to a Walmart to review security footage of a man who was allegedly sexually harassing customers, according to an investigation report that also released Thursday. While officers were reviewing the footage, a store employee interrupted them to report that two people — later identified as Wiley’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, and a friend — were fleeing, according to the report and the footage.
福斯特执法记录仪拍摄的视频显示，他与其他警官跑到室外，靠近那辆汽车。此时驾驶员——韦莱西娅·怀利的朋友——倒车并撞上另一辆车。随后驾驶员前行，福斯特跑向车头伸出手，手掌击中引擎盖。视频中他似乎连开数枪，导致副驾驶侧车窗玻璃部分碎裂。驾驶员随即又撞上另一辆车，短暂减速后加速逃离。
The video from Foster’s body camera shows him running outside with other officers and approaching the car as the driver — Vellesiya Wiley’s friend — backs up and collides with another vehicle. The driver then moves forward, and Foster runs toward the front of the car and puts out his hand, which hits the hood. He appears to fire his gun multiple times, causing some of the glass in the passenger-side window to shatter. The driver then collided with another car, briefly slowed and then sped off.
州公共安全部在枪击案当天发布的一份声明称，警方试图拦截该车后，警官开枪，“但驾驶员朝警官方向行驶，差点撞到其中一人”。但家属的法律团队对驾驶员危及警官这一结论提出异议。由法医心理学家罗杰·米切尔进行的独立尸检于7月由家属法律团队发布给“密西西比现在”新闻网，结果显示婴儿是从身体侧面中弹，律师辩称这表明车辆并非朝警官驶来。怀利表示，她在警官开枪前曾举起婴儿，以示意车内有孩子。
A statement released by the state Department of Public Safety the day of the shooting said the officer shot his gun after police tried to stop the car “but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one.”But the family’s legal team has disputed the conclusion that the driver was endangering the officers. An independent autopsy conducted by forensic psychologist Roger Mitchell and released by the family’s legal team to MS NOW in July found that the baby was shot through the side of his body, which the lawyers argued was an indicator that the car was not driving toward the officers. Wiley has said she held the baby up to show officers he was in the car before they shot him.
代表怀利家属的民权律师本·克伦普在一份声明中表示，福斯特的辞职“几乎不能算作追责的一步，更绝非正义”。他说，法律团队将继续寻求吊销福斯特的执法资格认证——这将阻止他在该州担任执法人员——以及联邦调查。
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Wiley family, said in a statement that Foster’s resignation is “hardly a step toward accountability, and it is certainly not justice.”He said the legal team will continue seeking Foster’s decertification — which would prevent him from working as a law enforcement officer in the state — as well as a federal investigation.
克伦普补充道：“上交警徽无法抹消夺走生命的责任，也不会终结我们为科亨及其家人争取正义的斗争。”
“Turning in a badge does not erase responsibility for taking a life, and it will not end our fight for justice for Kohen and his family,” Crump added.
周四在新闻发布会上，克伦普称警方“从一开始就过度执法”，指出尽管怀利的朋友仅被指控偷窃尿布，但在枪击发生前已有多名警官拔枪包围了车辆。
At a news conference on Thursday, Crump said the officers were “excessive from the very start,” noting that several of them had surrounded the car with their guns drawn before the shooting took place despite the fact that Wiley’s friend had only been accused of stealing diapers.
他说：“偷窃尿布属于轻罪，不应判处死刑。”克伦普指控种族主义在该事件中发挥了作用：周四发布的删节版案卷证实，福斯特是白人，而婴儿及其母亲是黑人。《密西西比今日报》和《纽约时报》此前报道，福斯特涉嫌对两名同事发表过种族歧视言论，其中一人是黑人，另一人是白人且与一名黑人伴侣育有孩子。
“Shoplifting diapers is a misdemeanor,” he said. “It does not warrant the death penalty.”Crump has alleged racism was at play in the incident: Foster is white, the redacted case files released Thursday confirm, and the baby and his mother are Black. Mississippi Today and The New York Times previously reported that Foster allegedly made racist remarks toward two co-workers, one of whom is Black and the other of whom is white and has a child with a Black partner.
福斯特辞职的原因尚不清楚。他的律师马丁·祖马赫拒绝就福斯特的辞职向 MS NOW 置评。根据 NBC News 的报道，祖马赫在提供给 NBC News 的一份声明中说，福斯特“为了城市和警察局的利益，以及为了让疗愈过程得以进行而辞职”。“他对婴儿死亡仍感到震惊和恶心，并坚决否认知道车里或前排座位上有孩子，也完全不知道逃跑者涉嫌盗窃商品，”据 NBC News 报道，祖马赫说。
It is unclear why Foster resigned. His lawyer, Martin Zummach, declined to comment to MS NOW on Foster’s resignation. In a statement provided to NBC News, Zummach said that Foster “resigned for the good of the city and the police department and to permit the process of healing.”“He is still shocked and sickened that a baby died and emphatically denies knowing a child was in the car or in the front seat and had no idea that those fleeing were suspected of shoplifting,” Zummach said, according to NBC News.