Ma’Khia Bryant’s military vet neighbor says his security camera footage proves Columbus cop had NO CHOICE but to shoot her: Second neighbor says knife-wielding 16-year-old ‘was in full attack mode and the other girl’s life was at stake’
- Home security footage taken from a garage across the street has captured a new angle of the police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday
- The 26-second video shows Bryant walking down a driveway toward other people at the same time that a police car pulls up outside the home
- Bryant appears to stop and stand still in the driveway facing some other yound women before appearing to suddenly charge at one of the women
- Neighbor Donavon Brinson who handed the footage to police said after viewing the footage he believes more people could have died if the cop hadn’t shot her
- Another neighbor said he believes police bodycam shows Bryant was in ‘full attack mode’ and ‘needed to be stopped’ as a ‘young lady’s life was at stake’
- Her family questioned the use of force and said her death was avoidable
- Questions mount over the fatal shooting and the events leading up to it
- Cops released a 911 call Wednesday, in which a young woman asks the dispatcher to send a police officer ‘now’ as some girls are ‘trying to stab us’
- Bryant’s family say the 16-year-old called 911 after a group of other girls were threatening violence, but police are yet to confirm if it is her voice in the call
- Columbus Police released three body camera videos Wednesday and identified the cop who shot her as Nicholas Reardon, who joined the force in 2019
- In the footage, Bryant is seen holding a knife and charges at two other women
- Her death has sparked protests, coming just minutes before Derek Chauvin was convicted of George Floyd’s murder