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The grand jury in Franklin County, Ohio, refused to indict the police officer who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant , an African-American teenager, in April of last year , reported the state attorney general, Dave Yost.
The prosecutor disclosed investigation materials, where there are more than twelve interviews, crime scene photos and evidence, among other records.
Back then, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation investigated the incident involving a police officer, terminated the investigation and referred the case to the district attorney in July of 1536, Yost said.
Of years Ma’Khia Bryant, was shot by Officer Nicholas Reardon on 20 April 2021, outside her foster home, after a dispute with two teenagers over housework, Ma’Khia’s mother had said.
According to the City of Columbus Department of Public Safety, the next The next step in the case is “an administrative investigation to determine if the officer’s actions were within Division policy.”
“Due to that pending investigation, at this time we cannot make any further comments”, he said in a statement this Friday.
On the day of the incident, police officers came to the house for reports of disturbances.
The camera The officer’s body footage showed Bryant assaulting a woman outside the foster home before being shot. Then it was observed that the teenager fell to the floor, while a man who was present told the police officer “She is a… girl.” So the agent replied that the girl was approaching the woman with a knife.
The teenager He was shot four times, in the back, the lower part of the torso, the right shoulder and the right thigh, the forensic report said.
Ma’Khia’s cause of death was chest injuries, and manner of death was homicide,
according to the registry of the Franklin County Coroner’s Office.
According to the experts, at that time they said that the official used force justifiably because someone else was in danger. “In my opinion, I had no choice but to take some action because of what was going on,” Charles Ramsey, a former Philadelphia police commissioner, told CNN.
Several weeks after the teenager’s death, several legislators from the Democratic Party requested a federal investigation into Bryant’s foster care, so they wrote in a letter that “when a child dies in foster care, the system has failed”.
“Unfortunately, it is clear that the many systems responsible for Ma’Khia’s protection failed her”, said Michelle Martin, the lawyer for the Bryant family, in a statement after his death.
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