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Georgia Tech Students Protest Police Shooting of LGBTQIA Group’s President

HeadlineSep 19, 2017

And in Atlanta, Georgia, police officers arrested three people on riot charges Monday evening as they clashed with students at Georgia Tech over the police killing of the president of a gay and transgender student group last Sunday. Video of the killing shared online shows officers ordering 21-year-old student Scout Schultz to drop a knife, as Schultz refuses to comply, at one point shouting, “Shoot me!” After a brief standoff, one of the officers then kills Schultz with a single shot to the heart. Schultz had dialed 911 to report a man with a knife and gun, though Schultz’s family says the student was armed only with a small multipurpose tool and was having a mental health crisis. Schultz was president of the Georgia Tech Pride Alliance and identified as “bisexual, nonbinary, and intersex.”

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