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 ...
TLDR: certain folks do not need to take any personal responsibility for their actions. Its someone elses fault when they try and shank another human being.
<< while she was engaged in a fight and holding a knife >>
Half-truth. She was in the act of thrusting the knife at her intended victim.
Planned Parenthood is doing their best to fix this problem, but they’re obvious not up to the job no matter how much government funding they get.
“Sixteen-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was shot outside her foster home while she was engaged in a fight and holding a knife.”
Spot the lie.
Welfare programs caused all this. DemonRATs own this. It is entirely theirs.
“That is who Ma’Khia was attacking with a knife. That visit indicates the foster mom has at least one seriously thankful foster kid out there.”
This is the FIRST time I’ve heard THAT part of the story! Boy, our Enemy Media does a GREAT JOB omitting pertinent FACTS, don’t they?
Our adult Foster Son is currently painting our house. He paints for a living and is doing an excellent job.
He says, ‘it’s the LEAST I can do for you.’ He also installed new laminate flooring for us this past winter and has done many things for me on the farm - and not always FUN chores either; helping me muck out dog and livestock stalls, fixing my computer, helping get rid of some bats we had living under the siding, etc.
Beau and his wife (RIP) had FOURTEEN Foster Kids (mostly teen boys) through the years. ‘Joe’ is the ONLY one that has ever kept in touch and appreciated the GIFT he was given back during his teen years. The others are either dead, homeless or in prison.
And that’s not an unusual percentage of failure with foster kids. :(
How do we manage to keep G-d’s favor when we kill His creations in the womb, or neglect/abuse so many of them that make it out alive? :(
When the first paragraph completely ignores what happened, no reason to read further.
They should start saying “BLack” instead. Double capital letters conveys twice the racial respect.
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But, but...you’ve got to remember this:
“It was a mostly PEACEFUL stabbing of one girl to another.”
Prayers up for that policeman.
The reason for this is simple: The evidence that this was a fully justified police shooting has made it exceedingly difficult for the family to take legal action successfully against the police. Without that avenue to financial riches available, they have to find someone else (other than the ghettopotamus with the knife, of course) to blame.
This sh!t it so predictable. These mutant kids are nothing more than livestock to most of the adults in their lives -- worth only what they can generate in cash payments from taxpayers, non-profit groups, etc. When that all comes to an end, a cash settlement in a lawsuit is usually the last opportunity for this livestock to serve any purpose.
I'm genuinely surprised that we haven't seen more calls from misfits on the left to eliminate police video cameras. These leftists originally demanded them because they expected them to lead to a flood of police misconduct charges and a treasure-trove of financial settlements, but they invariably just end up casting certain racial/ethnic demographic groups in embarrassing light. This here was a perfect case in point.
And, they want you to condemn the police officer, who was pretty much obligated to kill her... because he didn’t take the time to figure out she should have been “protected”.
Her father was right there. She called him at some point. He was the one who kicked the first girl Makhia attacked. Makhia was right next to him. He could have grabbed her in a bear hug and made her drop the knife, but kicking a fallen girl in the head was more important.
If he gets one dime, one apology from the city, it is way more than he is owed.
Why was she in foster care? Where were her birth parents? There is a whole story right there.
Ther were 10 Foster kids in that home. One was Ma’Khia’s younger sister, who just recently (March) called the police to be removed from the home. They told her they weren’t the ones to make that decision at which time she told them if she wasn’t removed, she was going to kill someone. That’s when they did remove her to 5e hospital for Mental Evaluation.
She wasn’t “just holding a knife”. My Gawd quit Lying!!!!
She was literally in the act of stabbing someone when she was shot.
These leftists are pathetic. Disgustingly pathetic.
Thanks for posting his account from Wiki. It catches everything and its author probably had to watch the videos several times, as I did, to figure out what happened. Officer Reardon, OTOH, only had about two seconds of real time to take it all in, get it right, and fire four superbly well aimed shots to save innocent black woman’s life. KUDOS TO HIM!!
Makiah lost all presumption of childish innocence when she attacked another with knife in a way that gave the cop no opportunity to do anything other than what he did.
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