The Gateway Pundit reported Wednesday, April 21, that a police officer in Columbus, Ohio’s capital city, responded to a stabbing alert Tuesday afternoon and shot and killed a girl at 4:45 p.m. The black girl was pronounced dead at 5:21 p.m. at Mount Carmel East Hospital and was identified as 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant. The shooting is being investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (Ohio Bureau).
Columbus police released three police cameras of the shooting of Bryant and and two 911 calls reporting the incident that eventually led to the shooting on Tuesday night and Wednesday, and identified the shooting officer as Nicholas Reardon.
A slowed-down video shows Bryant turning his attention to a woman in a neon sweatshirt and pinning her to a parked car. Officer Reardon pulls out his gun and repeatedly shouts, ‘Get down! Get down!’ . When Bryant raised his right hand, clutching a knife, and aimed it at the woman in the sweatshirt, who cowered against the blow, Reardon fired four shots and Bryant fell to the ground.
In one of the 911 calls, a frantic young woman could be heard pleading with the emergency operator to send an officer to an address on the east side of Columbus Tuesday afternoon, shouting into the phone, “We have girls here …… trying to fight with us and trying to stab us. We need a police officer. “
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther told reporters at a news conference Wednesday, “Based on this video, we know that this officer took action to protect another young girl in our community
However, NBC deceptively edited the police video so that viewers could not see the victim attempting to commit the murder with a murder weapon before being shot by the officer. NBC also edited the 911 call to omit the 911 caller’s statement that the girl was “trying to stab us. Anchor Lester Holt also showed a photo of Bryant smiling at the beginning of the show to make her look innocent, but ignored the fact that the teenager was wielding a large knife and trying to stab someone. The Gateway Pundit said that was intentionally deceptive.
In stark contrast, the CBS Evening News, aired a significant portion of the 911 call. The caller said, “These grown girls are here trying to fight with us, trying to stab us.” CBS also slowed down the video to zoom in on the knife in the girl’s hand.
Newsbusters reported that ABC and CBS, this time doing honest reporting, showed Bryant trying to stab another woman.
The Daily Beast, a U.S. news site, reported that Reardon, the officer who fired the shot, was a graduate of Bishop Watterson Catholic School in Columbus, a member of the school’s wrestling team, who graduated from Air Force basic combat training in August 2017 and then attended Security Forces Tech School at Lackland Air Force Base (LAFB), a Forces Tech School), a 65-day program to learn the basic functions of being a military police officer.
The Twitter account for Reardon’s alma mater said Reardon earned the Military M4A1 Fully Automatic Assault Rifle Expert Shooter badge. The younger Reardon joined the police department in December 2019.
The Daily Beast said the shooter received training from the armed forces, which could invite new questions about the militarization of the U.S. police.
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