Columbus (OH) police officer involved in a fatal shooting on the East Side

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/20/one-person-killed-officer-involved-shooting-east-side/7309088002/

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been called to investigate a fatal shooting by a Columbus police officer on the East Side that occurred just about the time the Derek Chauvin verdict was being announced.

Police received a 911 call at 4:35 p.m. about an attempted stabbing on the 3100 block of Legion Lane. The caller reported a female was trying to stab them, then the caller hung up.

Officers responded to the scene and at 4:45 p.m. an officer-involved shooting was reported.

Columbus Fire medics were cleared to come into the scene at 4:46 p.m., police said. The wounded person was transported in critical condition to Mount Carmel East hospital, where they were pronounced dead at 5:21 p.m., police said.

The victim is reportedly a 15-year-old girl who called the cops for help. FTP.

(Headline is the newspaper’s. Cops shot a kid four times in the chest and she died.)

[Nevilledog]

1. ....

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[Nevilledog]

2. More coming out

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. What a fucking mess.

[RockRaven]

4. At this point people need to start teaching their kids to never call the cops for any reason.

I wish I was being sarcastic, but it's not safe to call the cops for help in this fucking country.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Abolish it all.

[Solly Mack]

5. Damn

[LisaL]

7. Per the article, she is the one with the knife.

Where did you get the idea she was the one who called the cops?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. From reports on the ground.

Girls were fighting outside her house.

[LisaL]

9. Article says she was the one fighting with someone else.

NT

[Mr.Bill]

12. And right after George Floyd was murdered

an article said he died of a medical incident at the hospital.

We'll have to wait for more details on this one.

[Hoyt]

10. Mayor says there is bodycam footage they are reviewing.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Body cams don't stop police violence.

[Hoyt]

15. Actually, they do, and they give us a better idea of what happens.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. There is video of a cop...

yelling “Blue Lives Matter” at crowd gathered. BTW, in the video I just watched people weren’t yelling at cops or anything. Just gathering and recording as news spread. Sure enough, one of the cops yelled that.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. FTP.

[Hoyt]

16. Suggest folks look at video before posting about this particular incident.

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-east-columbus/