“As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting,” tweeted Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing Floyd’s family. The shooting occurred as advocates warned that while the Chauvin verdict should be hailed for holding police accountable, it does not amount to justice for George Floyd, and that far more work must be done to tackle systemic racism and police brutality. “Because as you’re getting one phone call that he was guilty, I’m getting the next phone call that this is happening in my neighborhood.” But you couldn’t even enjoy that,” Shepherd said. Shepherd and her neighbor Jayme Jones, 51, had celebrated the guilty verdict of Chauvin. Since that year, a third of all black people shot by police in Ohio (19 of 56) have come at the hands of Columbus officers, including three of four so far this year, the Post database shows. “But this is the worst thing that has ever happened out here and unfortunately it is at the hands of police.” “The neighborhood has definitely went through its changes, but nothing like this,” Shepherd said of the shooting. Kimberly Shepherd, 50, who has lived in the neighborhood for 17 years, said she knew the victim. “In the end, you know what, you can’t be Black.” “We don’t get to celebrate nothing,” said KC Traynor, one of the demonstrators who spoke with the Dispatch. A crowd of protesters gathered on Tuesday night at the scene on Legion Lane, which police had partially blocked off to traffic, while other demonstrators rallied at the city’s police headquarters. The shooting, which took place approximately 25 minutes before the judge handed down the guilty verdict against Chauvin, cast a shadow over the celebrations across the country that followed the trial’s conclusion. The video then shows what appears to be a kitchen knife lying on the pavement near the teenager. Police arriving at the home encountered several people on the front lawn of a house where the female youth, seen brandishing what appeared to be knife, was charging toward another female who fell backwards, the video showed.Ī police officer then opened fire on the youth as she collapsed against a car parked in the driveway. Releasing police body-camera video of Tuesday’s shooting in Ohio’s capital hours later, the interim Columbus police chief, Michael Woods, said officers were answering an emergency-911 call from someone who reported an attempted stabbing.
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