https://www.thedailybeast.com/colum...ek-chauvin-guilty-verdict-comes-down?ref=home Columbus Police Fatally Shoot Black Teen Who Called Them for Help, Aunt Says Just as Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter, Columbus police killed another person. Eyewitnesses said the victim was a Black teenager. COLUMBUS—A Columbus police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl on Tuesday afternoon just as a guilty verdict was being handed down in the Derek Chauvin murder case, a family member said. The shooting victim has not been officially identified, but was named as 15-year-old Makiyah Bryant by a relative early Tuesday evening. “She was a good kid. She was loving,” Hazel Bryant, who said the child was her niece, told reporters on the east side of Columbus. “She was 15 years old. She didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street.” According to Bryant, Makiyah called the police because someone in her house was abusing her. She went on to say that police saw a knife on the ground near Makiyah and shot the teenager four times. A woman identified as Tay Jones wrote on Facebook that she had witnessed the shooting and posted video purportedly from the scene. She said the 15-year-old had a knife “because somebody tried to jump her.” The white police officer who shot her never told her to put down the knife, according to Jones. The teen was transported to a nearby hospital, Mount Carmel East, where she succumbed to the injuries sustained in the shooting, local station NBC 4 reported. The department has reportedly contacted the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to review the use of deadly force. The police department’s public information office did not respond to a request for comment. The 911 call that brought police to the scene had reportedly cited an attempted stabbing. A group of about 20 residents soon gathered in the neighborhood at the intersection of Legion Lane and Templar Street, near where police had the scene of the incident blocked off. The group was chanting “Black lives matter!” and “No justice, no peace!” and “No racist police!” Three neighbors who said they didn’t want to speak on the record told The Daily Beast police killed a 15-year-old girl. Video from the scene shortly after the shooting showed a person lying on the ground in jeans and bright sneakers as bystanders yelled at police. The killing occurred just as the verdict was being announced in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the death of George Floyd, an unarmed, 46-year-old Black man, in May 2020. Local Columbus activist K.C. Taynor of Exodus Nation told The Daily Beast the latest police killing made it impossible to celebrate the Chauvin verdict. “It’s another murder,” he said. “They’re animals. They treat us like animals.” witness claiming "tried to stab him"
So the conviction of Chauvin on all counts has just been negated by this killing of a black teenage girl. Wow. It was nice to have a reprieve from the rioting and looting for a whole 5 hours or so. Ahh well. All we can do is imagine a world when people were civil.
I forgot to finish my thought on this: "Because they hate the Cops and want them defunded and exterminated!"
Just a poor innocent Black girl with a knife about to stab another Black girl. Black life did not matter to the girl with the knife.
Beat me to it.Thats looks justified.She wasn't a threat to the cop but she was a threat to the girl she was attacking imo.That was also some precision shooting because the girl she was attacking was right in front of her.
will be interesting to find out if she did in fact call the cops herself and how she turned things around/escalated.