Police in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed a 16-year-old black girl. The agents, according to the newspaper Columbus Dispatch, they would have reacted to an attempted attack with a knife. A crowd of protesters had gathered near a house on the southeast side of town where the shooting took place, minutes before the guilty verdict was announced against the police officer accused of killing George Floyd the year. last. According to the newspaper, the police involved in the shooting responded to an emergency call for a robbery attempt by a young suspect.
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther confirmed the deadly shooting, saying on Twitter that “a young woman tragically lost her life”. The police officers involved had body-worn cameras, and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has opened an investigation into the case. “We will share the information we can as soon as it becomes available,” wrote the mayor on social media. “I ask the residents to remain calm and allow the investigators to examine the facts.”
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by our correspondent Federico Rampini
The victim is Makiyah Bryant. The girl’s aunt, Hazel Bryant, told al Columbus Dispatch that the teenager lived in a shelter and became involved in an altercation with someone in the residence. She said her granddaughter dropped a knife she was carrying before she was shot multiple times by a police officer.
Protests against the police when the news broke. A woman living in the shooting district, 50-year-old Kimberly Shepherd, told reporters she knew the victim: “The neighborhood has certainly undergone a lot of changes in recent years, this is the worst thing that has ever happened here and unfortunately for mamo of the police.
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