{"id":452772,"date":"2021-04-25T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=452772"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:51:25","slug":"val-demings-goes-to-bat-for-officer-in-makhia-bryant-shooting-it-appears-he-responded-as-he-was-trained-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/val-demings-goes-to-bat-for-officer-in-makhia-bryant-shooting-it-appears-he-responded-as-he-was-trained-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Demings Goes To Bat For Officer In Ma\u2019Khia Bryant Shooting: \u2018It Appears\u2019 He \u2018Responded As He Was Trained To Do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fval-demings-goes-to-bat-for-officer-in-makhia-bryant-shooting-it-appears-he-responded-as-he-was-trained-to-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=452772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3688.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Congresswoman Val Demings (D-FL), the former Police Chief in Orlando, on Sunday said she believed the Ohio officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant appeared to have \u201cresponded as he was trained to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I served as a police chief, what I prayed for daily was that my police officers would respond as they are trained to do. Now, after every incident, we\u2019d have to go back and look at our policies and make sure that the policies met the moment. Look, I worked as a social worker with foster care children so it\u2019s a sad moment for me,\u201d she explained on CBS News\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d \u201cBut I also was a patrol officer who was out there in the street having to make those split-second decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman pointed to cell phones and video cameras as evidence of a change in reviewing police responses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow everyone has the benefit of slowing the video down and seizing the perfect moment. The officer on the street does not have that ability,\u201d Demings explained. \u201cHe or she has to make those split-second decisions and they\u2019re tough, but the limited information that I know and [in] viewing the video, it appears the officer responded as he was trained to do, with the main thought of preventing a tragedy and a loss of life of a person who was about to be assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5079872204473\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Orlando police chief <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepValDemings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepValDemings<\/a> weighs in on the Ma\u2019Khia Bryant shooting: <br \/>&#8220;It appears the officer responded as he was trained to do,&#8221; she tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdickerson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jdickerson<\/a> based on footage she&#8217;s seen.<\/p>\n<p>She calls the incident a &#8220;sad moment.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HuVs13MBsJ\">pic.twitter.com\/HuVs13MBsJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1386336807839748098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Minutes before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-jury-finds-derek-chauvin-guilty\">guilty verdict<\/a> came down in the Derrick Chauvin trial, a video surfaced on social media of a white officer shooting a black teenage girl.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/news\/local\/16-year-old-girl-shot-and-killed-by-police-officer-in-southeast-columbus\/530-c77bb47e-97d1-47b5-8ed8-099c105a0f20\">WBNS-TV<\/a>, officers in Columbus, Ohio received a 911 call from a distressed individual saying multiple women were attempting to stab her. Bodycam footage from the incident showed officers arriving to find 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant wielding a knife at two girls, at which point the responding officer stepped in and fired his service weapon as she appeared to be attempting to stab one of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came at her with a knife,\u201d an officer can be heard saying in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was later identified as Nicholas Reardon, who was hired in December of 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/nation-world\/police-identify-officer-who-shot-killed-16-year-old-girl\">WOAI-TV<\/a> reported. Columbus Interim Police Chief Michael Woods indicated Reardon was pulled from street patrol.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-three-important-things-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-makhia-bryant-case\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported, lefty pundits were quick to claim Reardon\u2019s actions were unjustified. Almost all of those claims failed to take into account that Bryant was wielding a knife at two other teenage girls. Ben Crump, the attorney for the families of George Floyd, Duante Wright, and Trayvon Martin, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttorneyCrump\/status\/1384667861642358785?s=20\">also perpetuated<\/a> that narrative.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Val Demings (D-FL), the former Police Chief in Orlando, on Sunday said she believed the Ohio officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant appeared to have \u201cresponded as he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276677,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3688.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Val Demings Goes To Bat For Officer In Ma\u2019Khia Bryant Shooting: \u2018It Appears\u2019 He \u2018Responded As He Was Trained To Do\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3688.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Val Demings Goes To Bat For Officer In Ma\u2019Khia Bryant Shooting: \u2018It Appears\u2019 He \u2018Responded As He Was Trained To Do\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}