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More than 100 protesters took to the streets of Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday night to demonstrate against the police shooting of Ma Khia Bryant.
Bryant, a 16-year-old black teenager, was shot dead by a white police officer after she charged at two people with a knife.
On Wednesday night, protesters were heard chanting: Say her name. Ma Khia Bryant.
The demonstrators were seen protesting down a street in Columbus holding signs that read Black Lives Matter and Power to the People .
Protests and a vigil also occurred earlier on Wednesday with groups gathering to march and pray for the Bryant family.
Police bodycam footage on Tuesday showed a chaotic scene that happened within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd s killing and ignited outrage by many over the continued use of lethal force by police in Columbus and the US.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Body camera video shows a Columbus officer fatally shoot a Black teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife. Many people believe the Columbus police officer saved the other girl’s life.
Interim Police Chief Michael Woods said state law allows police to use deadly force to protect themselves or others, and investigators will determine whether this shooting was such an instance. Ohio’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is now reviewing the killing following an agreement with the city last summer for all police shootings to be handled by the independent investigators under Attorney General Dave Yost’s office.
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Apr 22, 2021
In an image from police bodycam video that the Columbus Police Department played during a news conference Tuesday night, April 20, 2021, a teenage girl, foreground, appears to wield a knife during an altercation before being shot by a police officer Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. Police shot and the girl just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd. State law allows police to use deadly force to protect themselves or others, and investigators will determine whether this shooting was such an instance, Interim Police Chief Michael Woods said at the news conference. (Columbus Police Department via WSYX-TV via AP)
"I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate," the Los Angeles Lakers star said.