Georgetown College’s girls’s basketball staff 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 put up is drawing criticism as a result of newly launched police physique cam footage reveals 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). Without end a Hoya.#HoyaSaxa pic.twitter.com/vqwD8M6x4t
— Georgetown WBB (@GeorgetownWBB) September 20, 2024
@GeorgetownWBB
The tribute put up has been on the Georgetown girls’s basketball staff’s X web page since September 20. Sydney, who performed for GU from 2009 to 2013, died Sept. 16 within the police taking pictures — and the video of the deadly altercation was simply launched Monday.
Now that it is clear what led to her demise, numerous people on-line are calling on GU’s girls’s hoops staff to take down the put up … and there is a group notice saying “Sydney Wilson was fatally shot after trying to stab a police officer in Fairfax County, VA.”
The physique cam footage reveals Fairfax County police officer Peter Liu conducting what cops say was a welfare test on Wilson. The cop knocks on her residence door and Wilson opens the door and slams it closed.
The officer knocks once more, tells Wilson she’s “not in hassle,” 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 again up.” Wilson lunges at Liu with the knife, after which he opens fireplace.
Police say Liu shot Wilson 3 occasions within the higher physique, and she or he was taken to an area hospital, the place she was pronounced useless.
After the taking pictures, you possibly can see officer Liu bleeding profusely from the knife wound, however police say his harm was not life-threatening.
