“Think you mean the officer who saved Ma’Khia Bryant’s victim” – Press frames dismissal EXACTLY how you’d expect

by Fred T

The police officer who saved the life of a young black girl in Ohio has been cleared of any wrongdoing as a grand jury dismissed all charges against him for the fatal shooting of the person who was attempting to murder her.

The press treated this right from the start as White versus Black – white cop kills black teenager – rather than as brave cop reluctantly did what was necessary in the heat of the moment to save an adolescent life from being extinguished by murder before his very eyes.

Bryant was lunging with the knife in a killing blow. She was not waving the knife or wielding the knife she was lunging with it in an attempt to plunge the deadly weapon into the abdomen of her intended victim. That is what the officer prevented.

Here’s more from the New York Post.

In announcing the grand jury decision, special prosecutors Tim Merkle and Gary Shroyer noted, “Under Ohio law the use of deadly force by a police officer is justified when there exists an immediate or imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another.” They said the decision followed a full review of the shooting.

The woman Bryant was attacking, Shai-onta Craig, had formerly lived at the home but had returned and argued with her that day, according to Craig’s statement to police released Friday.

Reardon told investigators he didn’t think using mace or a “hands-on” approach would have worked because of the knife in Bryant’s hand, because he thought he was the only officer on scene and because Bryant appeared much bigger than him.

“At the time I fired my weapon, I was in fear for the life of the female in pink,” Reardon said, referring to Craig.

The city will now conduct an internal review to determine whether Reardon’s actions followed department policy, the Columbus Public Safety Department tweeted.

But how do you think the press are treating it? GO AHEAD AND GUESS.

I don’t know what this website is, but the only difference between their headline and ones from The Hill, CBS, NBC News, etc. is they say the part out loud the rest are only implying.

This is a great reply that could be applied to ANY of them.

This internal investigation will probably be a witch hunt but you never know.

Consider this an OPEN THREAD.

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