US, shooting after the Floyd sentence: police kill a sixteen-year-old African American

Within hours of the Minneapolis court ruling which handed down a guilty verdict on former police officer Derek Chauvin, for all three homicide crimes he was charged with in the case of George Floyd, fear returns to the United States. A Ohio police officer, while responding to a stabbing attempt, he shot and killed an African American teenager, according to reports from the BBC. The shooting took place in the state capital Columbus at 4:45 pm local time yesterday, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported. An angry mob then gathered on the scene, US media reported. An investigation is underway to establish the dynamics of the facts.