{"id":354250,"date":"2017-09-18T06:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T06:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=354250"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:20:05","slug":"armed-lgbt-student-shot-dead-by-atlanta-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/armed-lgbt-student-shot-dead-by-atlanta-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed LGBT student shot dead by Atlanta police"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police in the US state of Georgia have shot and killed an LGBT student activist, leading to an independent investigation.<\/p>\n
Police encountered Scout Schultz at a campus in Atlanta after a call about “a person with a knife and a gun” late on Saturday, officials say.<\/p>\n
Footage has emerged apparently showing Schultz, 21, refusing to obey multiple police commands to drop a knife.<\/p>\n
Schultz’s mother said police should not have used lethal force.<\/p>\n
In a video filmed by fellow students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Schultz is heard saying “Shoot me!” while continuing to advance on the officers. One of them then opens fire.<\/p>\n
Schultz – who identified as neither male nor female – did not appear to be holding a gun, investigators said, despite what had initially been reported to police.<\/p>\n
The computer engineering student later died in hospital,\u00a0the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.<\/p>\n
No police officers from the Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
The officer who opened fire has not been named.<\/p>\n
Schultz’s mother Lynne later said Scout, who was born Scott Schultz, was politically active in progressive causes,\u00a0the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.<\/p>\n
She added that Schultz had numerous medical issues, suffered from depression and had attempted suicide two years ago.<\/p>\n
“Why didn’t they use some nonlethal force, like pepper spray or Tasers?” she was quoted as saying by the newspaper.<\/p>\n
Schultz was the president of the Pride Alliance at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n
“We are all deeply saddened by what has occurred,” the group said\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n
“They have been the driving force behind Pride Alliance for the past two years,” the group said, using Schultz’s preferred pronoun. “They pushed us to do more events and a larger variety events.”<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police in the US state of Georgia have shot and killed an LGBT student activist, leading to an independent investigation. Police encountered Scout Schultz at a campus in Atlanta after a call about “a person with a knife and a gun” late on Saturday, officials say. Footage has emerged apparently showing Schultz, 21, refusing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[3,4856],"yoast_head":"\n