The White House said, without evidence, that Tuesday’s police shooting of a black teenage girl who charged another black teen with a knife was motivated by racism.
Sixteen-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot by a police officer whose body camera footage, released Tuesday night, revealed Bryant was charging another girl with a deadly weapon. Source
Body camera video released by Columbus Police in Ohio shows #MakiyahBryant attacking another female with a knife before she is shot by police. #BLM have been protesting, calling the shooting racist because Makiyah is black. pic.twitter.com/LY1HaJyI1F
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 21, 2021
Mayor of Columbus, Ohio: "We know, based on this footage, the officer took action to protect another young girl.” Full press conference and officer body camera video. #MakiyahBryant #BLM https://t.co/C3twyLhwM8
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 21, 2021
Mom of Ohio teen girl fatally shot by cop speaks out: ‘I want answers’
The mother of the 16-year-old Columbus, Ohio, girl who was shot by police said in a tearful interview that her “loving, peaceful” daughter called the cops “for protection — not to be a homicide.”
Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot after her family said she called police to report girls fighting about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, shortly before former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.
Video released by police shows an officer encountering the teen, who appears to be armed with a knife and chasing another girl, who falls in front of the cop.
The officer screams at the alleged suspect to “get down,” before the teen targets another girl, the video shows. As she swings the apparent weapon toward the second girl, the officer fires several shots at the alleged suspect, striking her. Source: NY Post
If the suspects were white, brown, or any other color, it would have been a justified shoot.