Georgetown College’s girls’s basketball workforce is catching flak for honoring a former participant who was fatally shot by a police officer who she slashed with a knife.
The Hoyas’ official X account posted a tribute to ex-player Sydney Wilson, mourning her “tragic loss” final month … however now the submit is drawing criticism as a result of newly launched police physique cam footage exhibits her attacking the cop — reducing his face — earlier than he shoots and kills her.
Georgetown girls’s basketball mourns the tragic lack of Sydney Wilson (C’13). Eternally a Hoya.#HoyaSaxa pic.twitter.com/vqwD8M6x4t
— Georgetown WBB (@GeorgetownWBB) September 20, 2024
@GeorgetownWBB
The tribute submit has been on the Georgetown girls’s basketball workforce’s X web page since September 20. Sydney, who performed for GU from 2009 to 2013, died Sept. 16 within the police capturing — and the video of the deadly altercation was simply launched Monday.
Now that it is clear what led to her loss of life, numerous of us on-line are calling on GU’s girls’s hoops workforce to take down the submit … and there is a neighborhood be aware saying “Sydney Wilson was fatally shot after attempting to stab a police officer in Fairfax County, VA.”
The physique cam footage exhibits Fairfax County police officer Peter Liu conducting what cops say was a welfare test on Wilson. The cop knocks on her condominium door and Wilson opens the door and slams it closed.
The officer knocks once more, tells Wilson she’s “not in trouble,” and when she lastly opens the door she raises a knife in her proper hand and lunges towards Liu’s face.
Liu walks backward and Wilson follows him down the hallway, knife in hand … and he tells her to “please back up.” Wilson lunges at Liu with the knife, after which he opens hearth.
Police say Liu shot Wilson 3 occasions within the higher physique, and she or he was taken to a neighborhood hospital, the place she was pronounced useless.
After the capturing, you may see officer Liu bleeding profusely from the knife wound, however police say his harm was not life-threatening.
