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6 police killings across America within 24 hours of Chauvin conviction
A group of women from Colorado and North Carolina react while paying respects to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Demonstrators march through downtown Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday night, April 21, 2021, protesting the fatal shooting a day earlier by police of 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant. (Barbara J. Perenic/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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USE-of-force expert Seth Stoughton said that the cop who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant had no other option but to use deadly force against the teen.
“With the caveat that I only know what is shown on the video, I don’t see any clear options or alternatives that were available to the officer,” Seth Stoughton told the Columbus Dispatch.
Police officer Nicholas Reardon was criticized for not using different methods to disarm the teen and de-escalate the situation instead of using a firearm.
However, Stoughton thinks that events of the incident happened too quickly for Reardon to take any other action.
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Haley Fielding writes out Ma Khia Say Her Name in chalk before the start of a community vigil for 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at Douglas Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio. Body camera video released Wednesday shows a Columbus officer fatally shoot Bryant, who swung at two other people with a knife.
Image Credit: Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP April 24, 2021 - 8:00 PM Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd even then, blood flowed on America’s streets.
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Democratic Congresswoman: Officer in Ma’Khia Bryant’s Death ‘Responded as He Was Trained’
Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) said the officer who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, last week appeared to have been “responding as he was trained” to deal with the situation, saying he had to make a split-second decision.
Bryant, of Columbus, Ohio, was seen on body camera footage being shot by an officer. She appeared to be holding a knife and was lunging at a young woman.
“I also was a patrol officer who was out there on the street having to make those split-second decisions,” Demings told CBS News on Sunday. “You know, now everybody has the benefit of slowing the video down and seizing the perfect moment. The officer on the street does not have that ability. He or she has to make those split-second decisions, and they’re tough.”