Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb sits with defense attorneys Mark Collins and Kaitlyn Stephens during hearing on September 30. Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch/USA Today Network/Imagn Images Columbus, Ohio AP —

An Ohio officer who shot and killed a pregnant Black mother in a supermarket parking lot after she was accused of shoplifting has been acquitted of all charges, including murder.

Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb could have faced up to life in prison.

The Blendon Township police officer had pleaded not guilty to murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault in the death of 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young. Bodycam recordings showed Young refusing to exit her car and then turning her steering wheel to the right, before her car began slowly rolling f

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