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In the most recent incident, the police in Columbus, Ohio, received an 911 call about a knife threat.

When the investigators arrived on site, several people were standing between two cars in a driveway, as can be seen on recordings from a body camera that the police published at a press conference on Tuesday evening (local time).

It was the body camera of the first police officer who arrived on site and ultimately fired the shots, said the interim police chief of the city of Columbus, Michael Woods.

The video shows a young girl with a knife trying to attack two other people before being shot by the police.

The investigation is still in its infancy.

Black Lives Matter activists demonstrated in Columbus after the shooting

Source: AFP / Stephen Zenner

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"We know, based on these recordings, that the police officer took action to protect another young girl in our community," said the city's mayor Andrew Ginther.

"But a family is grieving tonight, and this young 15-year-old girl will never come home." Ginther had previously asked residents of the city via Twitter to keep calm.

It is unusual for the police to publish the recordings of the body camera so shortly after the incident, wrote the newspaper "Columbus Dispatch".

Mayor Ginther had said at the press conference that it was important to publicly show the material "incomplete as it is at this point in time".

Girl lived in a care facility

A woman who claimed to be an aunt of the victim told the Columbus Dispatch that her niece had lived in a care facility and had an argument with someone there.

Hazel Bryant said she had a knife, but dropped it before she was hit by multiple police shots.

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The newspaper reported on minor protests in the city with signs that read, among other things, “Black Lives Matter”.

George Floyd's family lawyer Ben Crump responded on Twitter by saying, "As we breathe a sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus is feeling the sting of more police shots from @ColumbusPolice killing an unarmed 15-year-old black girl." some media reports said the victim was 16 years old.