Fake Outrage: They Stole, They Ran, and They Aimed the Car

A reel from the Facebook page Professormike is titled “Fake outrage.” The opening is Boogie Rae, the commentator who posts as @boogiewomanrae on Instagram and as @alterboogie on TikTok. The words on her are: “What the ever-loving fuck is the justification for shooting and killing a one-year-old baby?” The card under her face reads: “Police Shooting of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi Attorney General Says.” A photo of the child is on the card.

Then he answers her. “Why are you mad at the police officers? It was the mother that used her baby as a human shield after she tried to run over the officers with her car. And let’s not pretend you actually care about children. If that baby was 13 months younger, you would advocate to kill it in its mother’s womb.”

The justification is the car. On June 14, 2026, Senatobia police and a Tate County deputy went to the Walmart on U.S. 51 for a theft of diapers and baby clothes. Vellesiya Wiley and Latoya Ferrell left the store with one-year-old Kohen Wiley and got into a gray Ford Fusion. Officers told them to stop. One of them reached the driver’s door as the car backed out of the space. It kept going and slammed into a parked SUV.

Ferrell was driving. Wiley was in the passenger seat holding the child. Ferrell put the car in drive and sped toward the officers. Sergeant Hunter Foster was in the path. He stepped aside and fired. The child was killed. Ferrell was wounded. The car hit another vehicle and left the lot. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said that day that the driver drove toward the officers and almost struck one. Leaked body camera, reviewed by Mississippi Today, shows the car coming at Foster, the wheels turning at the last moment, and Foster pivoting clear as he shoots. Governor Tate Reeves said it was clear the driver attempted to run the officer over.

On October 19, Attorney General Lynn Fitch finished that review and said the use of force was justified. Her letter, posted by the city, declined charges against Foster and the other officers. There was “insufficient evidence of criminal conduct” by the police. The conduct that is on the tape belongs to the adults in the car. They took the merchandise. They ran from a stop. They backed into a parked car. They drove at the cops.

Boogie Rae’s question pretends none of that happened. It starts after the theft, the flight, and the officers in front of the bumper, and asks what the justification could possibly be, as if the only fact in the case is the baby’s age. A one-year-old died because the adults put him in that car and aimed it at the police. Mad at the officers is the wrong direction. Facebook’s own title on the reel, the day it went up, was 211,000 views and 13,000 reactions.