Chauvin Trial Outcome

[Ninurta]

Try and make sense of this, time-travel must be a thing in Ohio!
(I'm aware it's already been mentioned in the Shout Box.)

Black girl shot dead by police minutes before Derek Chauvin verdicts are read

'Police have shot and killed a young black girl just before Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd.
The shooting on Tuesday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, came after police responded to reports of an attempted stabbing.


Police body camera footage - Ma'Khia Bryant is in the blue jeans. Inset: Ma'Khia Bryant

The caller had said females were trying to stab them and put their hands on them, according to Columbus interim police
chief Michael Woods. No further details were gathered from the caller who hung up the phone, according to The Columbus
Dispatch.

It is unclear what then led to police shooting the girl but she was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Nobody else was injured.
Woods said: "This is a tragic incident for all involved, but especially for the family of the female.

"As I said earlier, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation is conducting the criminal investigation into this incident.
"At the conclusion of that investigation, the divisional police will conduct an administrative review of the actions
of this officer and all officers at the scene."

Franklin County Children's Services confirmed the teenager as Ma'Khia Bryant and that she was in foster care,
according to The Dispatch. Some reports said she was 15 and others said 16.

Columbus mayor Andrew Ginther said that police had body-worn cameras at the scene, adding: "We know, based on this
footage, the officer took action to protect another young girl in our community.
"But a family is grieving tonight and this young 15-year-old girl will never be coming home."

According to The Associated Press, the footage showed the officer shooting Ma'Khia as she appeared to attempt to stab two
people with a knife. A black-handled blade resembling a kitchen knife or steak knife appeared to be lying on the sidewalk next
to her immediately after she was shot and fell, the report said.

The death came about 25 minutes before a judge in Minneapolis read out guilty verdicts for former police officer Derek Chauvin
on three charges. These related to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died during an arrest in May last year, after Chauvin
knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.

Kimberly Shepherd, 50, has lived in the Columbus neighbourhood for 17 years, and said she knew the victim.
She and her neighbour Jayme Jones, 51, had celebrated the guilty verdict of Chauvin but things changed quickly.
"We were happy about the verdict, but you couldn't even enjoy that," Ms Shepherd said.

"Because as you're getting one phone call that he was guilty, I'm getting the next phone call that this is happening in my
neighbourhood."...'

Sky News:

This is probably going to sound like a crazy idea to some, but I dunno, maybe don't try to stab folks in front of cops and they might not feel a need to drop you like a pole-axed steer? I know, I know, that's just nuts... I dunno what I was thinking...

Maybe don't unnecessarily fight cops, and they won't feel a need to fight right back? Yeah, I know, just another one of my wacky ideas.

Maybe don't act frigging nuts, and they won't have an excuse to put you down like a rabid dog?

Just throwing these ideas against the wall, to see if any of them stick....

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