A 16-year-old girl in Ohio was shot and killed by Columbus police on Tuesday, and bodycam footage from the officer who fired the shots caught the incident, BBC reported. It appeared that the girl swung a knife at two other girls. The incident occurred minutes before the verdict on George Floyd’s killing was read.

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Officials of the Columbus Division of Police showed a part of the footage on Tuesday. The footage was released due to immense scrutiny, and clashes that high-profile police killings have led, reports WSAZ. The 10-second footage starts with the police officer coming out of his car at a house where the police were summoned due to a 911 emergency call because it was told that the caller was being physically threatened, told Interim Police Chief Michael Woods at the news conference.

The officer took a few strides in the direction of a group of people in the driveway when the teenage girl started swinging a knife at another girl who falls backward. The officer screams several times to warn her and to ask her to get down. The girl with the knife then turned her focus at another girl who was pinned against a car, to attack her. The officer, who was only a few metres away with people on either side of him, fired four bullets at the teenage girl who then fell to the ground.

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A man immediately shouted at the officer, “You didn’t have to shoot her! She’s just a kid, man!”, to which the officer responded, “She had a knife. She just went at her”. Police said that she was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.