Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

(1) Columbus, Ohio: Officer-involved shooting death of 15 year old Ms #MakhiaBryant, 4/20/2021.

https://twitter.com/MayorGinther/status/1384729336725524480

(2) Yes, the suspect appeared to hold a knife, while fighting with another girl. (The residence is a foster home and fighting had broken out.)

However, you can hear the same level of screaming/fighting noise after she is shot, so I wonder if other cops were covering that?

(3) Like, usually when people hear shots they stop and seek a place of safety. I want to know how many cops were there and if some were focusing on the other people still fighting. What if one of them turned a gun on the cops? They should have been ready for that possibility.

(4) Like most OIS bodycam videos released on the day, this one needs context you can't see in the screen. I will need some convincing if shooting the suspect was the ONLY option available to the officer at the time.

For me it's not as simple as just "she had a knife."

(5) The death of #MakhiaBryant needs investigating on it's own.

Aside from that, this incident forms part of the context of April 20, 2021 in US history, and of this period of increased violence since May 2020.

The country has had periods like this before.

(6) I've got to go offline for a while but when I return I'll look into this video in more detail.

There are screenshots etc gathering at this thread by @shanermurph:

https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1384703331877130241

(7) 24 hrs after the OIS death of #MakhiaBryant, there's a lot more evidence and info available in the public domain.

I still have the same questions I asked above in this thread. The officer appeared to act very quickly & only said "get down" once. I doubt she could hear him.