Episode Details

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch ruled it "justified" when a Senatobia cop shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley over an alleged pack of Pampers. Two days later the cop quit, which sounds like accountability until you learn he kept his state police license. Any department in Mississippi could hire him tomorrow, and since he was never decertified, there's no national red flag stopping another state either.

Let's go to the body cam, which the state sat on for four months. June 14th. Officers are already inside the Walmart on an unrelated call when an employee runs in yelling, "the two girls are running." They're accused of taking diapers. Kohen's mom says her friend paid. She's in the front passenger seat with Kohen in her arms. Officers run out, guns drawn, and plant themselves in front of the car. The driver backs up, pulls forward, and swerves between two of them. As the car passes him, Sergeant Hunter Foster fires into the passenger side window. Foster is white. Kohen, his mom and her friend are Black.

Senatobia's own police policy says officers "will not" discharge firearms into a fleeing vehicle. Apparently that's printed in the same font as "employees must wash hands."

The state's version is that the car was "almost striking" an officer. The classic: they were trying to run us over. Turns out diaper theft is a gateway crime to vehicular homicide. Foster once got sued over a Southaven Waffle House call for writing in his report that a driver nearly ran over an officer, when the surveillance video showed no such thing. He denied it, and it ended in a confidential settlement. So "the car almost hit me" is less a defense and more his catchphrase.

Then Lynn Fitch, the state's top prosecutor, closed the case. No charges. She said there wasn't enough evidence for a grand jury. Kohen's grandmother found out on Facebook. By Fitch's own count, she's ruled police justified in 82 of 86 officer shootings. That's a 95% approval rating, a number normally reserved for rubber stamps and North Korean elections. She's running for governor next year.

Governor Tate Reeves said it was "very clear" the driver "attempted to run over the policeman." He admitted he hadn't watched the video. He found time to defend the cop. He couldn't find time to press play.

Kohen's grandmother watched it. Her review: "You shot my grandbaby from the side of the car."

At the hospital, an officer's body cam caught him saying, "I didn't even see a baby in her" bleep "lap." Which is why you don't fire into a car you can't see into.

The Department of Public Safety confirms Foster is still certified and another department "could legally hire him." In most jobs, killing a toddler gets you fired. In Mississippi policing, it's a lateral move.

That's how bad cops travel. The next department runs a background check and sees two words: resigned, certified. Kohen's family wants that license pulled and a federal investigation. From Trump's Justice Department, which tore up the police reform deals won after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed. Good luck.

Lynn Fitch gets to run for governor. Hunter Foster gets to go find his next badge. And Kohen Wiley doesn't get to turn two.

Sources:

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/23/kohen-wiley-body-camera-police-shooting-justification/

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/10/19/breaking-kohen-wiley-death-senatobia-police-officer-use-of-force-attorney-general/

https://veritenews.org/2026/10/21/video-senatobia-mississippi-police-kohen-wiley