Calls seeking comment from the police union have not been returned, CNN reported.Īsked about the policy on the use of Tasers versus handguns, Woods declined to comment on the specific incident but said: "If there's not deadly force being perpetrated on someone else at that time, an officer may have the opportunity to have cover distance and time to use a Taser." The officer is off street duty pending an investigation. Police identified the officer who fired the shots as Nicholas Reardon, who was hired in December 2019. Ginther said state investigators will determine "if the officer involved was wrong, and if he was we will hold him accountable." Some are guilty but all of us are responsible." "How did we get here? This is a failure on the part of our community. "Bottom line: Did Ma'Khia Bryant need to die yesterday?" he added. "We don't yet have all of the facts but we do know that a 16-year-old girl, a child of this community, tragically died last night," Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther told reporters. “The reality is that felony warrants are executed every day in daylight hours,” he said.īryant has said the city is committed to holding officers responsible if there was any wrongdoing but the state investigation needs to play out.Just before Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict was announced, a 16-year-old girl Ma'khia Bryant was killed by a Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon Tuesday afternoon.ĬOLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus, Ohio, officials released additional body camera video on Wednesday of a police officer fatally shooting a Black teen who charged two females with a knife. In his remarks, Elliott also questioned the need for an early-morning operation.
In such cases, “we are expressly forbidden from using 20/20 hindsight, because unlike all of us, officers are not afforded the luxury of armchair reflection when they are faced with rapidly evolving, volatile encounters in dangerous situations,” Collins said. The investigation must look at “the totality of the circumstances,” Mark Collins, an attorney representing Anderson, said Thursday. He said Anderson shot well before he could have perceived a threat. In the bodycam footage, Anderson is seen after the shooting raising a hand in demonstration to another officer and saying Lewis lifted his hand “like this.”Įlliott disputed this version of events, saying it’s unclear from the bodycam footage if Lewis was holding anything. Anderson has been placed on leave under city procedure. Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant has said Lewis appeared to be holding a vape pen before he was shot, a notion disputed by Elliott.īryant has not addressed whether police believed the device was a weapon, a determination that will come during the probe by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Police bodycam footage shows Anderson opening a bedroom door in an apartment and in a second or less shooting Lewis, who was in bed.
A police dog was unleashed in the apartment during the search. Police took two other men in the apartment into custody without incident. Lewis was Black and the officers were white. to arrest Lewis on multiple warrants including domestic violence, assault and felony improper handling of a firearm. Columbus police say officers had gone to the apartment around 2 a.m. Lewis, 20, died at a hospital following the shooting early Tuesday morning.
“There is absolutely no way in the timeframe between when the door was opened and the gun was fired that Officer Anderson perceived a potential gun in his hand, got through to his brain, and then reacted by shooting his weapon,” Elliott said. Elliott made the point in criticizing suggestions by the police chief that Lewis had something in his hand when he was shot.
Elliott questioned on Thursday the speed of the shooting, which appears in bodycam footage to happen within a second or less of Officer Ricky Anderson opening the door to a bedroom where Lewis slept.
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