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RE: Columbus Shooting
Columbus, OH Police Shooting: What the Columbus PD Got Right
Quote:Sometimes it feels like there are two different universes in which left and right respectively reside. Today is one of those days.
As I reported last night, an officer-involved shooting of a 16-year-old girl (initial reports were that she was 15) occurred in Columbus, OH. Upon release of the body-cam footage, it became clear that the officer acted appropriately, only firing when Ma’Khia Bryant went to stab another girl she was in an altercation with.
Immediately, rumors that Bryant was unarmed or that police didn’t warn her became prominent on social media. Protest crowds gathered and the hot takes started to flow about how the officer should have tased her or tackled her.
Now, the White House is getting in on the act. Joe Biden released a statement that I can only describe as absolutely disgusting.
This shooting has nothing to do with race. There is not a single piece of evidence to support such an assertion nor would it make any sense anyway. The police were called to the scene and presented with a deadly weapon. This wasn’t some setup to hunt black people.
Yet, Biden (or better yet, his handlers) highlight race and supposed “police violence” while ignoring that this was a justified shooting of someone who was attempting to murder another, unarmed girl. It doesn’t get much more clear-cut than this, but if you read the statement, you’d get the impression a racist white cop went and shot a black, teenage girl out of racial malicious.
It’s hard to put into words how gross and dangerous that is. It propagates a clearly false narrative about the shooting while inciting more violence and unrest. Disinformation is already rampant surrounding the incident in question. We didn’t need Joe Biden adding to that.
Jen Psaki was asked about this today and she doubled down.
Again, two separate universes. What does implicit bias have to do with a cop discharging his weapon to stop someone from stabbing another person? Is the suggestion that the officer would have not acted and allowed the stabbing to happen if the aggressor was white? Nothing of what Psaki says makes sense, but as I’ve said many times before, it’s not meant to make sense. It’s meant to push a narrative, and she knows she won’t be called on it.
At this point, what other conclusion am I to draw except that Democrats and their media allies want racial unrest?
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Quote:Columbus Police Department Interim Chief Michael Woods gave a live update on the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting and took questions.
Woods confirmed that it is not the police department policy for officers to yell their intent before discharging their firearm.
“If there is time and opportunity, we try and include that. But we do not require it if that time and opportunity is not there.”
From the video footage, and reporting from multiple sources, it does not appear this was the case.
Another reporter asked if it was known what the altercation that led up to the shooting was about. Woods confirmed that he did not, and that this was the purview of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
“They are getting that first crack, they want to have that information, they want to have that information fresh.”
Woods gave more clarity on the role of BCI in the investigation.
“[To] your question about the timeliness, and how quick we were able to get this information out there. One of the things that has to occur before we get that, is that BCI wants to have that opportunity to look at that body worn camera footage. So we send a homicide detective to that scene, with a computer that allows them to watch that. They want to review all that body worn camera, so that when they’re doing their investigation, the scene, any evidence, they want to make sure they have collected any evidence. So they’re getting that first opportunity.”
The fact that the Columbus Police Department was able to release any body cam footage so quickly is unprecedented. Woods continued,
“So, last night that opportunity to review that happened quickly, then that body worn camera was brought into police headquarters, we uploaded it into the system, and then we got that out as quickly as we could, I believe about 5 and a half hours.”
“That’s extremely fast, and I’m not going to say we’re going to be able to do that every time.”
When asked about his thoughts on the incident, Woods got choked up.
It’s a tragedy. There’s no other way to say it. It’s a 16-year old girl. I’m a father, her family is grieving. Regardless of the circumstances establishing this, a 16-year old girl lost her life, and I really wish this wasn’t happening.”
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Media coverage of Columbus shooting exposes their BLM agenda as a fraud
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