An Ohio police officer was accused of shouting “blue lives matter” to a group of shocked residents at the scene where another officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl in Columbus, reports The Daily Beast.
Just minutes before a guilty verdict was being handed down in the Derek Chauvin murder case on Tuesday afternoon, a Columbus officer shot 16-year-old Ma’khia Bryant dead after responding to a 911 call about an attempted stabbing.
In a Facebook video taken shortly after the shooting, upset residents can be seen talking about what happened when a nearby officer appears to yell to them: “Blue lives matter.” One of the residents can be seen reacting angrily, saying: “Blue lives matter?