What We Know About The Police Killing Of A Black Teen In Columbus Tuesday | Talking Points Memo

The city of Columbus, Ohio has been gripped by protests after a police killing of a Black girl was reported within 20 minutes of the Derek Chauvin verdict being announced in Minneapolis on Tuesday.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1370741

There’s no reason to shoot someone in the back! Cops need to stop using lethal force as their go to method.

OK now that I’ve gotten that off my chest.

Reading the article, the implication seems to be that the officer shot the girl as she was running towards another girl with a weapon (TBD).

So let’s here from the other girl. Was she in danger/afraid? Did she see a knife?

I need more details and, seriously want to know this girl has a freaking knife in the first place.

I’m not saying one excuses the other. I’m just curious as to why she has a knife and if that other girl was in danger

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Q: [What We Know About The Police Killing Of A Black Teen In Columbus Tuesday]

A: That it will happen again, and again, and again, ad infinitum, until policing in the USA is wholly and totally reformed.

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You can’t expect a cop to miss a chance of killing a black person do you? That’s the reason they joined the police.

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Did I get that right? 10 seconds from arrival to firing shots? Just like Tamir Rice no time to even minimally assess the situation, and unlike with Tamir Rice they knew in advance from the call that the weapon was a knife, not a gun, so they knew they were not in immediate danger for their lives. I’m not a 100 percent defund advocate, but clearly public safety needs a total overhaul and rethinking from the ground up, not just incremental reforms, with way more focus on situational reconnaissance and assessment.

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This seems like a taser gun situation, not a real gun.

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Yes. I did not hear “drop your weapon” nor “put your hands up” nor STOP!

The officer instead pulled his gun & yelled “get down” as he shot & killed a child.

The craziest part is the kid he killed called for the police to come.

Smdh

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More facts will be illuminating, and we may learn that this killing was completely at odds with policy and wholly unjustified. It still seems worth drawing a distinction between a police officer making a potentially terrible split-second error in judgment and the sort of extended and depraved indifference that was immediately obvious in the Chauvin-Floyd murder.

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Agreed, lethal force should be a last resort, not the first. What’s the point of cops carrying tasers if they just reach for the gun every time? :worried:

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Watch the video. It’s everywhere. Just Google it.

The officer literally shot the girl mid-stab. Another second of hesitation and the girl’s target might have suffered a life-threatening knife wound.

Like all of you, I was sick when I first heard of this incident. Then I saw the tape.

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Watch. The. Video

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The goons with guns and badges strike again.

Getting off on power, abusing power, and enjoying immense legal protections: the police force is a magnet for goons.

I get your sense of outrage. I felt it too.

Watch the video.

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I suspect we will learn that the kids who came to “jump” the honor roll student killed were not academic scholars. It’s sickening that she called police knowing she was in danger & she’s dead.

I taught my children to never call police unless they are safely indoors & to not answer the door when/if they knock. They were allowed to call EMT & fire department as they are unarmed & trained to help & assist.

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The female in the jeans is clearly wielding a substantial knife, has barged another female wearing pink onto the hood of a car and is swinging the knife in to stab. That girl was intent on doing serious harm.

Given the situation, I’m not sure a taser would have been sufficient. The dispatch was for “female with knife stabbing people.” The policeman draws and points his gun as he approaches a chaotic situation. A male pushes a female down to the ground and kicks her right next to him as the girl in jeans charges the girl in pink, knife in hand.

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I’ve taught my boy the same.

Because I imagined it goes without saying, I’ve never got around to teaching him that when he hears approaching sirens, it’s time to stop stabbing people.

Might talk about that this afternoon.

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I said this after the Tamir Rice killing, and I keep saying it, seconds to react to someone who is yelling at you is not enough time to process what they are saying.
If I’m focused on another person, and you come up behind me it’s going to take time to register that 1) you are there, 2) who you are, and 3) what you are saying. This is especially true if I happen to be in a heated argument with someone.
And this goes triple if I’m walking down the street and have my headphones on.

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I think that’s the crux of the problem right there. Twenty goddamn seconds from putting a the car in park to the death of a child

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Ffs watch the video. It’s everywhere.

It’s so difficult to accept contradictory facts once you’ve dug in at a position. It’s humiliating. Spare yourself that. Watch the video before digging in further.

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It’s truly unfair and tragic people can’t brandish knives and guns and wave them around menacingly in public without having to suffer negative consequences as a direct or indirect result of doing so.

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