Posted on 04/30/2021 12:40:35 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Last week, a police officer fatally shot a Black child. Sixteen-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was shot outside her foster home while she was engaged in a fight and holding a knife. The officer who shot her did not attempt to de-escalate the conflict, but instead fatally fired upon arrival. The event has stirred debates about her behavior, with some justifying her death. But these debates miss a key perspective: Ma’Khia was a child who deserved protection. Rather than scrutinizing her behavior, we need to understand the systems that failed her and factored strongly in her death.
And it isn’t just about policing, and the disproportionate violence targeting Black and Latino children by law enforcement officers, as was the case in the recent killings of Adam Toledo, 13, and Anthony J. Thompson Jr., 17. Bryant’s situation was also greatly shaped by her experience in foster care. In the United States, systems of care and protection of children have been racialized at their inception, something that has only intensified between the 20th century and today.
The first orphanages in the United States were established in the antebellum North in cities with growing free Black populations. Yet, these institutions refused to admit Black children. The New York Orphan Asylum, founded in 1809, did not have any Black children and in Philadelphia, the Orphan Society explicitly identified Whiteness as a requirement for admission. In both cities, White Quaker women established private, segregated orphanages for Black children — the Philadelphia Shelter for Coloured Orphans (1822) and the New York Colored Orphan Asylum (1836). And yet these Black orphanages were fundamentally different: Rather than caring for Black children, they sent them out to complete indenture contracts at age 8....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yes, CPS is a mess and some foster mothers make Cruella DeVille look like a saint, but we don't know as of yet if Ma'Khia picked up a knife because her life in that house was awful or her upbringing by her bio mother was what was awful.
My money is on the latter. The foster mom was getting a visit from a former foster daughter who had aged out of the system several years prior. That is who Ma’Khia was attacking with a knife. That visit indicates the foster mom has some at least one seriously thankful foster kid out there.
“Child welfare systems” in this case also includes public schools, and any welfare programs that provide financial incentive for women with children to never wed.
Translation:
Whitey’s fault.
96% of American mamas give up their kids to strangers 6 or 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for almost a year .... for 12 - 14 years of a childs' FIRST years.
Don't you think they know what power they have and all they have to do is pass legislation that demand you send your kids under penalty of law?
Shut down the public school system and mama will be forced to learn something or make enough money to get their child/children taught outside of indoctrination.
We didn't get here quickly and we're not getting out quickly .... but we CAN get out.
Where’s the damn parents...Foster parents can be money grubbing leaches.
Where was her father. That is the first question that must be answered. Deprive a child of her mother and father, and this is they result.
Ma’Khia was a child who deserved protection. Rather than scrutinizing her behavior, we need to understand the systems that failed her and factored strongly in her death.
So we aren’t supposed to ask, why in the sam hill did she grab a knife and almost kill someone? Instead they want to have a debate about the foster care system?????
“. The officer who shot her did not attempt to de-escalate the conflict”
Krystal’s full of BS.
The cop did initially try to break up part of the fighting. Then the ghettpotamus instantly got up and went to knife Ms. Pink.
WaPo: Oh well, “the system” is to blame. Won’t someone please fix the racist “system?”
the only surprising part of this whole mess is that SHE dint have a CHILD!
i am sick, to, death, of this shite.
so now, once and for all,
minorities/women&children hardest hit/most effected in everything in life, real or imagined, and it's ALL the fault of the evil whiteman. OK???
now... PLEASE STOP!
The Compost is lying. Again.
From what we know - Ma’K the Knife came from a very dysfunctional family. Her foster home was far, far better.
No one can blame CPS on this. As usual, blame a subculture that aborts most of its children. And raises the rest in single family environments.
Sad situation. However, one female was spread eagled on top of the bonnet of the car, the other was poised over her with a knife. One of those gals was going to be dead...and the officer shot the one with the knife. I feel for the dead woman, I feel for the officer...these are split second decisions. MaKhia was a big girl and looked like an adult. Officers have to make quick life and death decisions...bet he didn’t know he was dealing with 16 year olds but the one holding the knife would have been the logical target. Her family is going through hell, but I bet that officer is, too.
From the video is is apparent that there was no time to "d-escalate" anything. By the time the officer finished saying, "now be nice," the knife would have been three inches into the other lass.
Ma’K the Knife, ooooh sh1t... LOL
“The officer who shot her did not attempt to de-escalate the conflict, but instead fatally fired upon arrival.”
Has the Washington Post no fact checkers?
“As Officer Reardon arrived at the home, footage from multiple angles showed several people in the driveway, including Bryant, who had emerged from behind the house. Reardon can be heard saying, “Hey. What’s going on?” Bryant then pushed over a woman, 20-year-old Shai-Onta Lana Craig-Watkins, in front of Reardon and fell over her. As Bryant got up, Reardon drew his service pistol and shouted “Hey!” four times.
“Brandishing a knife, Bryant then lunged toward a second woman, 22-year-old Tionna Bonner, and pinned her to a car. As she did this, Reardon ordered Bryant to “Get down!” four times; Bryant was non-compliant. As Bryant reached back with the knife, Reardon then fired four shots, striking Bryant. Bryant immediately collapsed on the driveway.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ma%27Khia_Bryant
What failed was the mother and sperm donor.
Until black women stop giving birth to babies they will not care for and raise with a FATHER, nothing changes.
When will the propaganda turn to the fact.
” The officer who shot her did not attempt to de-escalate the conflict, but instead fatally fired upon arrival. The event has stirred debates about her behavior, with some justifying her death.”
RITFLMAO!
What about the role of drugs in the family?
“De-escalate the conflict”
She was seconds away from stabbing someone
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