Columbus shooting: Protesters call for abolition, defunding of law enforcement, reports say

Protesters gathered again in Columbus to demonstrate against the fatal officer-involved shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, chanting her name and calling for the defunding of the city’s police department, reports say.

The demonstrations began Wednesday afternoon on the campus of Ohio State University, where organizers told a crowd of more than 400 people that the protest was for the abolition of police, The Lantern student newspaper reports.     The crowd then went inside the Ohio Union student activity center and staged a 16-minute sit-in -- symbolizing Bryant’s age – before marching toward the Ohio Statehouse, where they chanted her name and called for the defunding of the Columbus Police Department, the newspaper adds.