According to body camera footage from the officer who fired the shots just minutes just before ruling in George Floyd’s murder was read, Columbus police shot and killed a teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife on Tuesday.
When the officer takes just few steps toward a group of individuals in the driveway, a Black girl begins twirling a knife at another female, who falls downward. The officer orders everyone to get down several times.
The knife-wielding girl then charges at another woman or girl who is pinned against a vehicle.
The officer fires four shots from a few feet away, with people on either side of him, and the teen collapses to the pavement.
Source: KTLA
Hazel Bryant, Ma’Kiah’s aunt, told the Dispatch. She lived in a foster home near the shooting scene and had an altercation with another person at the home.
Bryant argues her niece had a knife but dropped it before being shot multiple times by a police officer.
Ma’Khia Bryant reportedly called the police for assistance because two girls were fighting outside her home.
