Posted on 04/24/2021 4:36:10 AM PDT by blam
Rutgers Professor Britney Cooper
Rutgers University associate professor Brittney Cooper said Ma’Khia Bryant, a black teenager whom a police officer fatally shot after the 16-year-old appeared to attack another with a knife, has been “adultified” because “she was a big girl,” making the remarks during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC.
Cooper discussed the fatal police-involved shooting of Bryant, who is seen on camera wielding a knife, lunging at another girl.
“Look, the arguments for our movement have never been that black people have to be perfect in order for them to deserve dignity, for us to have good policing, for us to be viewed with humanity, for cops to take a breath before they literally get out of the car, guns blazing,” Cooper (pictured) told host Joy Reid, later contending that some do not “understand black girls as girls.”
“But beyond all of that, what are we gonna do about the way we don’t understand black girls as girls?” she asked.
“Ma’Khia Bryant was a child … and the way that she has been talked about as this, you know, because she was a big girl, so people just see her as the aggressor, they don’t see her humanity,” Cooper asserted.
“They have adultified her. We turn black girls into grown women before they even are able to vote,” she continued.
“I have watched folks across the political spectrum really defend this and say … and empathize with the officer, say that he didn’t have any other set of choices,” she added:
What are we training police to do if they are not actually showing up on the scene and making the situation better for all involved? If you can’t figure out how to deescalate a 16-year-old, even with a kitchen knife, when you’ve got a gun .....
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Idiotic and moronic Left and their frakin’ neologisms......pathetic.
She was “adultified” because she had a knife and was going to carve the other girl like Thanksgiving turkey.
There are large volumes of case law on a minor acting in an adult capacity and necessarily accepting adult consequences. What a moron!
She was adultified because she was stabbing people with a knife.
When a cop rushes to a scene of a reported crime in progress and comes upon a ghettopotamus of this size attacking another person, he has no idea if she is 16 or 36 years old.
Doctor, my eyes, tell me what is wrong
Was I unwise to leave them open for so long?
I saw that blob before my first sip of French Roast coffee this morning.
“Adultified” Even Free Republic tells me that’s not a word.
Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one of the Butt sisters.
THAT is a professor?
From a Rutgers web page, “Brittney Cooper, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers who studies race and gender politics,”
So she’s a professional racial grievance monger funded by the many Leftist foundations we are blessed with. As in ‘bless their hearts.”
Thank you! I was about to say something similar.
According to Moore, Bryant had been feuding with several of the other foster children since she arrived.
The details are not known exactly, but the attempted stabbing event was the culmination of some running dispute. The media reporting has been confusing irresponsible
“Rutgers University associate professor”. LOL. Colleges that hire these idiots are going to be shunned by whites thus turning them into rotting corpses like big cities.
And further, this professor is another example of why we need to defund the universities.
The cops should have went for lunch rather than save that girl from being stabbed. It’s what the community wants, it’s what MSNBC wants, and I’d bet it’s what the kid who was saved (now) wants.
•African American women have the highest rates of obesity or being overweight compared to other groups in the United States. About 4 out of 5 African American women are overweight or obese.
•In 2018, non-Hispanic blacks were 1.3 times more likely to be obese as compared to non-Hispanic whites.
•In 2018, African American women were 50 percent more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic white women.
•From 2013-2016, non-Hispanic black females were 2.3 times more likely to be overweight as compared to non-Hispanic white females.
•People who are overweight are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, high levels of blood fats, diabetes and LDL cholesterol – all risk factors for heart disease and stroke.1
•In 2018, African Americans were 20 percent less likely to engage in active physical activity as compared to non-Hispanic whites.
Remind me to keep the fact that college is nothing more than advanced indoctrination in my mind. The woman looks ridiculous and does not present her self as a professor.
Just physically look a what professor means in this country. She was a adultified so she is excused by another sista.
that 16 year old ghettopotomus was singularly focused on killing the girl in pink.
She didn’t stop when the cop showed up, she didn’t care.
There was nothing the cop could have done to de-escalate because had he tried, the girl in pink is stabbed and on the ground.
It amazes me people sit down and watch what happened for 30 minutes in slo-mo and decide what should have happened.
The cop literally had 10 seconds to observe, digest, plan and stop the threat. He did that. A job well done.
I guess the police just needed to ask her how old she was and this never would have happened.
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