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September 19, 2017

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