memeorandum: Columbus police shooting updates: Aunt says teen girl killed; crowd protests (Mark Ferenchik/The Columbus Dispatch)

11:40 AM ET, April 21, 2021

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Columbus police shooting updates: Aunt says teen girl killed; crowd protests — An angry crowd protested near a home on the Southeast Side where a Columbus police officer fatally shot someone while responding to an attempted stabbing call. — The shooting happened just minutes …

Vanessa Romo / NPR:

Columbus Police Shoot And Kill Black, Teenage Girl — A 16-year-old Black girl was fatally shot by an officer outside of her home after she called the police for help on Tuesday afternoon, according to her family. — The girl has been identified as Ma'Khia Bryant by her aunt, Hazel Bryant.

Discussion: WBNS-TV, National Review, HotAir, The Root, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, WHDH-TV and TheBlaze

Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:

Anti-Anti-Chauvinism — Conservative trolls are the REAL victims! — We all saw it. It was captured on video. It lasted nine interminable minutes. It ignited our righteous indignation—an oil fire floating on an ocean of grief. — Most people felt this way about the video of the murder …

Discussion: National Review, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, The Moderate Voice, ABC17NEWS, CNN, BizPac Review, WISH-TV, Media Matters for America and Twitchy

Associated Press:

AP source: Garland to announce Minneapolis police probe — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis a day after a former officer was convicted in the killing of George Floyd.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Politico, BuzzFeed News, NBC News, CNN, Fox News, Forbes, POLITICUSUSA, WISH-TV, WTTV CBS4Indy, Crooks and Liars and The Guardian

Tucker Carlson / Fox News:

Jury verdict in Derek Chauvin trial a cry of 'please don't hurt us' — Can we really trust the way by which the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty? — Tucker: No politician, media figure has the right to intimidate a jury — The jury in the Derek Chauvin trial came …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill, Washington Post, NOQ Report, RedState and Human Events

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

Tucker Carlson: Public support for George Floyd is an ‘attack on civilization’ — On Fox News Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson did not appear to be pleased with the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. — Indeed, according to Carlson …

Discussion: RedState, Insider and New York Times

Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:

Tucker Carlson says protests intimidated Derek Chauvin jury into guilty verdict: 'Please don't hurt us' — After a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday in the death of George Floyd, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Moderate Voice, spiked, alicublog and Politico

The Daily Beast:

Columbus Police Release Body-Camera Footage of Fatal Shooting of Black Teen — The footage shows an officer fire his weapon within seconds of arriving at the scene of a brawl where a girl appeared to lunge at someone with a knife. — COLUMBUS—Hours after crowds in Minneapolis celebrated …

Discussion: New York Daily News, WCMH-TV, TheBlaze, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, UPI, The Sun, BizPac Review, ABC17NEWS, Summit News, IJR, Breitbart, Twitchy, Townhall and Washington Examiner

New York Times:

Teenage Girl Is Fatally Shot by Police in Columbus, Officials Say — The police in Ohio, who released body camera footage, said the girl had threatened two other girls with a knife before an officer opened fire. — A teenage girl who the police say threatened two girls with a knife …

Discussion: The Columbus Dispatch, HotAir, Twitchy, Insider, The Sun, The Hill, Mediaite and Raw Story

Azi Paybarah / New York Times:

How a teenager's video upended the police department's initial tale. — The Minneapolis Police Department's initial inaccurate and misleading description of George Floyd's death last May “might have become the official account” of what took place, had it not been for video taken by a teenage bystander …

Discussion: Forbes, TMZ.com, Real Clear Politics, Balloon Juice, SPD Blotter and The Week

Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:

What Facebook Did for Chauvin's Trial Should Happen All the Time — On Monday, Facebook vowed that its staff was “working around the clock” to identify and restrict posts that could lead to unrest or violence after a verdict was announced in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Discussion: Newsbusters, Tech Xplore, Missoula Current and CNN

ABC News:
AG Garland announces DOJ probe into policing practices in Minneapolis

Discussion: Washington Examiner, CBS News, CNBC, KNSD-TV, NPR, WAVY-TV, Twin Cities, ABC17NEWS, IJR and Mediaite

Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post and The Western Journal

Yahoo News:
Columbus Police Fatally Shoot Black Teen Who Called Them for Help, Aunt Says

Discussion: Twitchy, Fox 8 Cleveland WJW, The Sun, The Week, Breitbart, Politico, The Daily Beast and New York Post

Associated Press:
Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife

Discussion: ARLnow.com, KTLA, Twitchy, WHDH-TV and Townhall

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
By bearing witness — and hitting ‘record’ — 17-year-old Darnella Frazier may have changed the world

Discussion: Roy Edroso Breaks It Down, BuzzFeed News, Los Angeles Times, Poynter, The Intercept and The 19th

MSNBC:
After Chauvin verdict, VP Harris calls on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

Discussion: IJR, NBC News, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller and Fox News

Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Minnesota Attorney General Calls Chauvin Guilty Verdict ‘First Step’ Toward Justice

Discussion: The Guardian, The Daily Register, The Hill, WGN-TV, Twin Cities, Fox News and New York Post

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
It's time to ‘be mindful’ of the police reaction now Chauvin has been convicted: Professor Eddie Glaude

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA

Alayna Treene / Axios:
Chauvin verdicts reduce pressure for police reform

Discussion: Vox, Fox News and Raw Story

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Scoop: Chris Christie friends believe he's running in 2024 — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is seriously considering running for president in 2024, three people familiar with his thinking tell Axios. — Driving the news: While Christie isn't saying anything publicly about his thinking …

Discussion: Insider, IJR, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., The Week and Twitchy

Reuters:

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump — Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Discussion: Raw Story and The Intellectualist

Washington Post:

‘The wheels fell off’: How Biden's misgivings on border surge upended plan on refugees — President Biden overruled his top foreign policy and national security aides, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, when he kept in place the Trump administration's record low cap on the number …

Discussion: HotAir, Politico, The Hill and Townhall

New York Times:
An Early Promise Broken: Inside Biden's Reversal on Refugees

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Althouse, FiveThirtyEight, UPI and PolitiFact

Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:

John Kerry in Earth Day wonderland — It is not encouraging to see John Kerry returning from talks in China and suggesting he's achieved some sort of climate change breakthrough. The last time he trumpeted success on an allied diplomatic mission, he was touting the 2016 Paris Agreement …

Discussion: ABC News

Wall Street Journal: Biden to Propose Cutting U.S. Emissions in Half by 2030

Michael Grunwald / Politico: Biden assembled an all-star climate team. Now he has to deliver.

Financial Times:

‘It is much worse this time’: India's devastating second wave … Every night funeral pyres blaze on the banks of the Ganges, a grim symbol of the ferocious Covid-19 wave sparking a health crisis and human tragedy in India that is far surpassing anything seen last year.

New York Times:

How the G.O.P. Is Creating Harsher Penalties for Protesters — As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests. — Republican legislators in Oklahoma …

Discussion: NBC News, The Week, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post

Dan Diamond / Washington Post:

'I'm still a zero': Vaccine-resistant Republicans warn that their skepticism is worsening — Johnson & Johnson pause appears to have little effect, but other messages continue to alienate GOP holdouts — Stop talking about the possibility of coronavirus booster shots. Don't bully people who are vaccine holdouts.

Discussion: eVille Times

Leana Wen / Washington Post:
The covid-19 vaccines are an extraordinary success story. The media should tell it that way.

Discussion: HotAir

Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:

Fox News Thinks Tucker Carlson Is Still Good for Business — Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, asked advertisers gathered Tuesday for Global Marketer Week to press Fox Corp. to fire its resident flamethrower and ratings-magnet, Tucker Carlson.

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost, Mediaite and The Rational Optimist

Washington Post:

Now we know what Pompeo's ‘swagger’ at the State Department was really about — SECRETARY OF STATE Mike Pompeo adopted the term “swagger” to describe the department's style under his leadership. It was a curious approach to diplomacy, and it led to some notable disasters …

Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Pompeo returns to Capitol Hill to push Iran sanctions bill

Discussion: Townhall and Responsible Statecraft

Barak Ravid / Axios:

U.S.-Israel tensions build as Iran talks progress — As nuclear talks in Vienna enter a critical stage, the gaps and suspicions over Iran between the Israeli government and the Biden administration are growing. — Why it matters: Both sides want to avoid the kind of public fight …

Discussion: Informed Comment

Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:

Andrew Yang Wins Endorsement from Left-Wing Rival — Carlos Menchaca, who bowed out of the New York City mayoral race last month, will endorse his former opponent. — Andrew Yang may be leading early polls in the New York City mayor's race, but he has nonetheless faced skepticism …

Discussion: The Hill and NBC News

Bill Press / The Hill:

GOP making big mistake on infrastructure — Please! Will somebody explain to me how Republicans, who always boasted about their support for infrastructure, are now suddenly against it — and think this is good politics? — Infrastructure's a magic word.