Killed 16-year-old African American Macaian Bryant in the city of Columbus, Ohio, the policemen explained their actions. Law enforcement officers provided video from their native cameras. It is reported by TV channel 10TV.
On recording from the camera of the first officer, which arrived at the scene, can be seen how the girl is trying to hit two people with a knife. Only after that, the policeman applies its tablet weapon. It is noted that after the injury of the girl, police officers aroused her ambulance and had the first help.
The police also told that the dispatcher received a call about the attack with a knife, but he could not clarify the details before the connection was cut off.
According to the family of the deceased Macaiani Bryant, the girl shot a policeman who arrived at her own challenge. Her relatives claim that it was she who caused police officers because of a quarrel of girls near her house.