Ma’Khia Bryant: Columbus police release body camera footage in shooting of 16-year-old Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch
In an unprecedented move, Columbus police showed body camera footage of the shooting of a 16-year-old girl by a Columbus police officer just hours after the incident on the Southeast Side.
The shooting, which happened about 20 minutes before a guilty verdict was announced in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, prompted hundreds to protest at the shooting site and Downtown.
The video shows an officer approaching a driveway with a group of young people standing there. In the video, it appears that the 16-year-old, identified now as Ma’Khia Bryant, who was moments later shot by police, pushes or swings at a person, who falls to the ground.
A Black girl, 16, has been shot dead by a police officer in Ohio, just as the verdict in the George Floyd murder trial was handed down. WARNING: Graphic
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A couple embraces at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020. TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
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Andrew Ginther releases camera footage of the incident where teenage girl fatally shot by the police.
A black teenage girl was fatally shot by the police in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday afternoon, shortly before a US jury found former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin guilty of third-degree murder in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
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