and further video footage of the shooting. “We need a police officer here now,” a girl says in the 911 recording, according to NPR. “We got these... grown girls over here, trying to fight us.”In the footage, Reardon arrives alone at the scene and repeatedly asks what is going on as Ma'Khia fights with two girls. “Get down,” he shouts, before shooting Ma'Khia four times until she falls to the ground.
Columbus’ Interim Police Chief Michael Woods said the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation will conduct an “independent and transparent” investigation into the shooting. What is clear, though, is that Reardon should be dismissed as an officer. When he shot Ma'Khia four times — which happened in the wake of several other police killings, and in the midst of the
'He brought a gun to a knife fight' He should have brought a knife? Good Grief. If he had not acted the other girl could be dead and you would be sniveling because he did not act adn let a black girl get stabbed to death
He was in the Air Force, the most intensive thing about their basic training is if is summer it is hot. The Air Force, except for some specialties is more like IBM in uniform.
You do that one of the teen girls had a knife and was trying to kill the another? Lethal force was already in play. You don't deescalate from that, you remove the threat.