We’re living in an economy where families are struggling to afford basic necessities like diapers, where parents can’t use food assistance to buy them, and where a reported shoplifting call involving diapers at Walmart, a corporation that reported more than $462 billion in U.S. net sales in fiscal year 2025, ended with a 1-year-old child dead. Stealing is not the answer, and Kohen’s family says no shoplifting happened, but what kind of country are we becoming when an alleged property crime tied to caring for a baby can escalate into police gunfire in a parking lot? What kind of economy makes diapers feel out of reach, and what kind of justice system answers poverty with bullets?