Columbus Police will have body camera footage 10:30pm tonight on the shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant

[irisblue]

cross post from Ohio group.

Link to tweet

(I have seen the childs name spelled several ways tonight)

edited to correct the time/date

[TwilightZone]

1. Sounds like it will be tonight.

10:30PM.

[irisblue]

2. I was wrong on time, my error

Link to tweet

?s=20

[TwilightZone]

3. I'm sure they want to get out in front of this as quickly as possible.

Which makes sense, particularly today.

[irisblue]

5. there have been 4 shootings of POC by Columbus area police since November 2020

and this is a teen aged girl.

💔

[triron]

9. I think this is an attempt at cover up.

[Archae]

4. Did she have a knife or not?

[irisblue]

6. .

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Archae]

7. That doesn't answer my question!

[irisblue]

8. from the tweet...Officer who shot Bryant keeps saying "she came at her with a knife."

That officer said she had a knife

[womanofthehills]

12. Her friend told a different story

She said the girl called 911 because she was being attacked and she had a knife to protect her from the women who were attacking her at the foster home she was living in. She said the girl had dropped the knife on the ground before she was shot. We will find out soon.

[greenjar_01]

24. Have you watched the video yet?

What do you think about the friend's claim?

[kcr]

15. It looks to me like she was attacking another girl with a knife

There is a still shot in the twitter thread that shows the girl going at the other girl's neck with the knife.

[TheProle]

18. Yes. She had a knife and only dropped it after being shot.

[Archae]

28. So the cop was justified.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

29. As it stands now,

it appears to be justified.

[Archae]

30. Yes, but the "cops can do nothing right" zealots are going apeshit.

"That poor little girl was murdered!" (slightly paraphrased)

I posted about a 19-year old girl who attacked a babysitter, and this girl deserves JAIL for beating up (along with her goons,) the babysitter and 1 or two babies.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

31. +100. nt

[Ms. Toad]

32. Here's a still from the video

Almost simultaneous with the shots.



From this:

Link to tweet

She had just shoved the girl in the foreground down (right in front of the shooting officer), then turned and chased the girl in pink toward the parked car and was just pulling her arm back apparently to stab the girl in pink when the shots were fired.

A taser would seem to have been more appropriate - assuming the officer was carrying one. But the girl in pink was clearly in danger.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Watch the video from the press conference...

It appears the answer was "yes, and she tried to stab 2 other people with it".

[PoliticAverse]

10. Link to youtube video of police press conference (with bodycam footage)...

[Hoyt]

13. Just saw it. I think policeman saved life of the other girl. Sad results,

but what I’ve seen so far left little choice at the moment.

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

[StarfishSaver]

14. Bullshit.

BULLSHIT.

That cop shot a child who was wrestling with another person without taking any time to assess the situation or determine whether there was any danger. When he shot the girl, she was nowhere near the girl on the ground - she had run away from her and away from where the cop was standing.

We've gone from "He was in fear of his life" to "He shot her to protect someone else."

BULLSHIT.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

16. StarfishSaver, I love reading your posts,

but on this, I think you're wrong, the girl was trying to stab another girl and the cop, IMHO, did what he had to do to save the girl's life.

Unless other evidence comes out debunking the video, I think this was justified.

Just my opinion.

[StarfishSaver]

23. The cops taunting the Black witnesses with "Blue Lives Matter" suggests we're not dealing with

open-minded, non-biased police officers here.

But sure - let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Why would we think they did anything wrong?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

25. That was wrong and the cop should be fired for it,

but that doesn't change the fact that the cop probably saved the other girls life.

Until I see different, I'm of the opinion that this was a justified shooting.

Again, just my opinion.

[Hoyt]

19. Sorry, Starfish, but you are wrong. Watch the slowmo video.

[TheProle]

20. You are incorrect.

[Ms. Toad]

33. When he shot her she had pulled her arm back - with a knife in it

and was swinging it at the girl in pink.



You can see the knife in her right hand top center pane. If you keep playing the video - which you can find in this tweet:

Link to tweet

, she follows through with her swing, the girl in pink puts her leg up to try to block it and rolls along the car and escapes. The shots are fired simultaneously with her swinging the knife at the girl in pink.

Could the police - or someone better skilled in de-escalating called instead - have gotten there earlier? Maybe.
Would the girl in pink have been able to get away had the officer not shot her? - I can't tell.
Given that the police were on the scene - could he have done something else (like a taser)? I don't know.
Assuming the police were yelling blue lives matter (I couldn't tell from the video - but it wouldn't surprise me) -was that appropriate - absolutely not, and any police participating in it should be disciplined.

But it is clear that the girl who was shot was swinging her arm - with a knife in her hand attempting to stab the girl in pink - at the time he shot her.

It is tragic, and may well involve poor police training or equipment, and an utter failure to learn better public safety procedures, but it is not George Floyd.

[womanofthehills]

17. Why did he not just tase her? They always go for their guns

[Hoyt]

21. Because the lady was a split second away from stabbing the other girl.

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

[StarfishSaver]

22. They always go for their guns when Black people are in their sights.

[Catherine Vincent]

27. Agree

[greenjar_01]

26. Amazing that the guy who is trying to kick the other victim in the head

Then berates the cop, "She's a fucking kid, man. Are you stupid?" He was literally trying to kick a person in the head directly in front of a cop with a drawn firearm!