Posted on 04/24/2021 8:57:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The birth family of the Ohio teenage girl who was shot by police outside her foster home Tuesday is mulling a lawsuit, according to a report.
Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, was shot dead after calling police for help when two woman started fighting with her outside the Columbus home, her cousin Deja Torrence told Insider.
Police opened fire as she lunged at one of the women with a knife, according to dramatic footage released by police.
Nicholas Reardon, the officer who killed Bryant, has been assigned to desk duty while the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation looks into the shooting, the report said.
Torrence said her cousin was failed by the foster system, and her mother and Bryant’s biological mother are talking to a lawyer about pursuing unspecified legal action, according to the outlet.
“Someone has to be held accountable,” Torrence told Insider. “The family just doesn’t want this to be another senseless killing that goes under the rug and gets overlooked.”
Torrence reportedly said that Bryant was not a violent person, and must have believed her life was in danger. She told Insider that her family had talked to the teen about walking away from conflicts.
“We’re talking about a kid. She’s a kid. She’s 16 defending herself from 20-something-year-olds,” Torrence, 29, told the outlet.
Bodycam footage from Ohio police that shows Ma’Khia Bryant lunging at her attackers with a knife.AP
“If I felt threatened, if I felt that a group of individuals was coming on my property where I lived to fight me, I would get whatever I needed to protect myself.”
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"He just stood there as my daughter got slay'nt, dat bitch cut her up and da white officer just stood there dindoo nuffin! It's racism! He just let my girl gone die after she be callin' 911 for an HOUR trying to get this crazy bitch offs her. We be talking to Crump right now and negotiatin' numbers and stuff I ain'ts too good ats." < / SARC >
Who’s the lawyer on Seinfeld who is based on Johnny Cochrane?
You know, if my child had been killed, the VERY last thing on my mind would be suing someone. Guess the ambulance chasers got to her.
And I say that as a lawyer.
Seems like a good way to not get shot is to NOT try to kill someone in front of a police officer.
The parents should be shot.
“With any luck, the intended victim of Little Big Miss Stabby McStabface will countersue this lovely, “Family,” into oblivion.”
I agree with you. Let’s hope it’s Mexican lawyers vs black lawyers. That should get the pot boiling over in Wakanda in Ohio.
The City will settle. They always do. I was sued for false arrest even though I pulled 3 grand worth of Crack out of a suspect’s vehicle. The lawyers for the Jurisdiction that I worked in, told me they were going to settle and I got pissed off. Their reply “that’s just the way it is”.
You have raised the same question as I did. She has a father and mother essentially on site. So what in heck is she and her sister doing in a foster home?
Racist!!!!!!!!!
Really! I was wondering who that guy was. Did he loan her his knife too?
No wonder Mizz Stabby was a stabbin’ and living in a foster home.
But her real Mom said she was sweet and motherly. Saying that must be a good way to get a lawsuit going to cash in on Mizz Stabby’s demise.
Whatta crock.
Police officer needs to counter sue. I’m sure the have a BLM slush fund + go fund me. The emotional damage the cop has because the parents can’t raise their kids. I believe she was in foster care because the parent (aka single whore) couldn’t be trusted to raise the mentally ill animal.
funded by the NFL and others ...
i wonder if daddy’s going to sue for the foot injury he sustained kicking the other girl in the head?
Probably, he might win. You know that gal had a dangerously hard skull. LOL
Her family should be charged for the cost of the bullets expended.
The birth family of the Ohio teenage girl who was shot by police outside her foster home
and must have believed her life was in danger
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