'It can't stop here': Biden, after Chauvin verdict, calls for passage of George Floyd bill 'We are able to breathe again': George Floyd's family relieved, thankful for guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin
"How do we as a city and community come together to ensure that our kids never feel the need to resort to violence as a means of solving disputes or in order to protect themselves?"
"We don't yet have all of the facts, but we do know that a 16-year-old girl, a child in this community, tragically died last night," Ginther said. Mayor Andrew Ginther urged residents to wait for the facts before rushing to judgment and pointed to the shooting as a reflection of larger issues related to violence in communities. Ma'Khia was transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5:21 p.m., police said.įrom George Floyd to Pamela Turner: Civil rights attorney Ben Crump shifts legal fight Interim Columbus Police Chief Michael Wood said 90 seconds after shots were fired, a medic was called.Ĭolumbus Fire medics were cleared to come to the scene at 4:46 p.m., police said. We also know that there are particular vulnerabilities that children in foster care, like Ma’Khia, face.” We know that police violence disproportionately impacts Black and Latino people in communities and that Black women and girls, like Black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence. “We're thinking of her friends and family in the communities that are hurting and grieving her loss. “She was a child,” press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday.
The White House called Ma’Khia’s shooting “tragic.” It requires us to pause and take a close look at the sequence of events and, though it's not easy, wait for the facts as determined by an independent investigation." But the video shows that there is more to this. Under any circumstances, that is a horrendous tragedy. "A teenage girl is dead, and she's dead at the hands of a police officer. "I understand the outrage and emotion around this incident," he said. During a news conference Wednesday, Columbus Public Safety Director Ned Pettus urged patience. The case remains under federal investigation.Less than six hours after the incident Tuesday afternoon, Columbus police released body camera footage, in which the teen apparently has a knife.
Less than three weeks before Hill was killed, a Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy fatally shot 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in Columbus.
#Columbus ohio shooting trial#
The officer in Hill’s case, Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran of the force, is now facing trial for murder, with the next hearing scheduled for April 28. It also took place less than 5 miles from where the funeral for Andre Hill, who was killed by another Columbus police officer in December, was held earlier this year. The shooting happened about 25 minutes before a judge read the verdict convicting former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaughter in the killing of Floyd. Ohio’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is now reviewing the killing following a recent agreement with the city. Woods said state law allows police to use deadly force to protect themselves or others, and investigators will determine whether this shooting was such an instance. Neighbors stood in open doorways filming and behind cars shaking their heads, eyewitness footage showed. Hazel Washington is embraced after addressing a crowd with her anger at the Columbus Police at the shooting of her niece following a fatal police shooting on Tuesday, Apnear Legion Lane on the east side of Columbus, Ohio.
0 kommentar(er)
