Columbus police release body camera footage in shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant
A Columbus, Ohio, police officer fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant while responding to an attempted stabbing call on the city's Southeast Side.
The Columbus Dispatch
Hazel Bryant told The Dispatch that she is the aunt of Ma’Khia Bryant. The girl lived in a foster home there on Legion Lane and got into an altercation with someone else at the home, she said.
Bryant said her niece had a knife, but maintained that the girl dropped the knife before she was shot multiple times by a police officer.
Protesters with Black Lives Matter signs, megaphones and a loudspeaker joined the crowd gathered behind crime scene tape about a half-block away from the shooting scene. About 50 people had gathered by 8:30 p.m.