Ma Khia Bryant Bodycam Video Shows Columbus Police Fatally Shoot Teen
On 4/21/21 at 4:46 AM EDT
Columbus police have released body camera footage of a teenage girl appearing to threaten two others with a knife before being fatally shot by an officer on Tuesday afternoon.
Police have not identified the Black teenager shot by the officer, but local children s services and a woman who said she was her aunt named the girl as Ma Khia Bryant, aged 16.
Authorities released the officer s body camera footage at a press conference on Tuesday night, as Black Lives Matter protests began in the Ohio city. Normally we don t provide information this soon, said Michael Woods, the interim chief of the Columbus Division of Police, at the start of the press conference. But we understand the public s need, desire and expectation to have transparency of what happened.
/ Andy Chow A man prays on Legion Lane, the Southeast Columbus, street where witnesses say a 15-year-old girl was shot and killed by Columbus Police on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
Newspaper reports say Columbus police have shot and killed a teenage girl on the city s Southeast side. The shooting was reported Tuesday afternoon just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was at the scene on the city s southeast side. The newspaper reports that officers had been responding to an attempted stabbing call when police shot the girl at about 4:45 p.m.
By Jordan Freiman
Editor s note: The video this story links to is disturbing.
Police in Columbus, Ohio, released bodycam video Tuesday night of the fatal shooting of a teenage girl earlier in the day. Interim police chief Michael Woods said at a press conference that it is unusual to have video released so quickly but we understand the public s need, desire and expectation to have transparency.
Police did not identify the girl but her family and Franklin County Children Services identified her as 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant. The family also told CBS Columbus affiliate WBNS-TV that Bryant was the one who called the police for help, saying people were fighting outside her house.
While the verdict was being read in the Derek Chauvin trial, Columbus police shot and killed a sixteen-year-old girl, Brown said in a tweet posted Wednesday. Her name was Ma’Khia Bryant. She should be alive right now.
While the verdict was being read in the Derek Chauvin trial, Columbus police shot and killed a sixteen-year-old girl.
Her name was Ma’Khia Bryant. She should be alive right now. #MaKhiaBryanthttps://t.co/8SBdK4mxlE Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) April 21, 2021
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Police in Columbus have released a bodycam video of the incident that shows an officer with the Columbus Police Department approaching a driveway where a group of young people are standing. Among them was Bryant, who apparently pushes or swings at a person and falls to the ground, the Columbus Dispatch reported.