A 16-year-old Black girl, Ma’Khia Bryant was shot multiple times by police in Columbus, OH on the same day that Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter, including two additional charges that prove beyond a doubt that George Floyd was a Black victim of police brutality.
Why is Ma’Khia Bryant dead?
We’ve been given varying versions of the unfathomable event involving police officers that were called to the scene, allegedly by the teenager they ended up killing.
Shortly after the arrival of police officers, a Black girl reportedly wielding a knife with a threatening stance against the other teen girls around her was mercilessly pummeled with four bullets.
Ma’Khia Bryant is dead because she’s a Black girl.
Remember that the same institution that endorsed the slaying of a Black boy, playing in the park with a toy gun is the same biased system that wants us to believe that the cop who shot a Black girl dead, had no other choice but to shoot to kill.
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