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Democratic representative Val Demings justifies police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant
US Representative Val Demings, Democrat from Florida and former chief of the Orlando Police Department, said the officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant last week in Columbus, Ohio responded as he was trained to do. In an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Demings recalled her 27 years as a cop, saying her time as police chief informed her perspective on the killing.
Val Demings, Official Portrait, 115th Congress (Source: Wikimedia)
Demings, an African American congresswoman who was vetted in 2020 as a potential Vice President for Joe Biden, echoed an argument often used to defend officers that use excessive force, stating police do not have the benefit of hindsight and must make split-second decisions.
Columbus, Ohio officer who killed Ma’Khia Bryant was trained in military marksmanship
The Columbus, Ohio police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant on Tuesday, Nicholas Reardon, is an active duty US Air National Guardsmen trained as an expert marksman, it was revealed Thursday.
Police quickly released body cam footage of the incident earlier this week which shows Reardon approaching an altercation between a group of young people in a driveway. Bryant, facing away from the officer, can be seen pushing another female to the ground before Reardon drew his weapon and repeatedly shouted “get down.” After Bryant, armed with knife, turned to fight another woman, Reardon fired four times into Bryant. She died shortly after.