Police in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday fatally shot a Black teenage girl they confronted as she lunged at two people with a knife, as seen in police video footage of the encounter, authorities said.
The incident, sparking street protests in Ohio¡¯s largest city, came as the U.S. was focused on the guilty verdict a Minneapolis jury returned against a white former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd last year by kneeling on his neck.
Releasing police body-camera video of Tuesday¡¯s shooting hours later, the interim Columbus police chief, Michael Woods, said officers involved there were responding to an emergency call from someone who reported an attempted stabbing at a home on the city¡¯s southeast side.
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