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Family of Ohio teenage girl shot by police weighing legal action
New York Post ^ | April 24, 2021 | 2:58am | Jesse O’Neill

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.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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Bodycam footage from Ohio police that shows Ma’Khia Bryant lunging at her attackers with a knife. AP”


Ah, so it was self-defense according to AP?


41 posted on 04/24/2021 9:17:23 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: libh8er

“Someone has to be held accountable,”

Her parents should be held accountable. Everyone is accountable for their own actions. It was her choice to pick up that knife and go at everyone around. It was her choice not to put it down when ordered to do so.

When will her parents sell t-shirts like St. Skittles’ parents did?


42 posted on 04/24/2021 9:17:24 AM PDT by bgill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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

Her cousin was failed by her birth parents, else she would not have been in the foster system.

43 posted on 04/24/2021 9:18:01 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

That brave dude kicking the girl while she’s down is Stabbygirl’s dad, IIHC.


44 posted on 04/24/2021 9:18:19 AM PDT by OKSooner (With Republicans like these we have no need for enemies.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The police should send a bill for the bullet.


45 posted on 04/24/2021 9:18:33 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope the jury returns and gives money and a medal to the policeman.


46 posted on 04/24/2021 9:18:37 AM PDT by eddie willers
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That follows. Tamir Rice’s mother was sitting in jail while the young man was outside waving a gun at passersby. When the police were summoned and the boy (or whoever that was in the dark wearing a hoody waving the gun) was shot, the mayor of Cleveland apologized to the mother before finding out exactly what happened, and subsequently, after the mother made 8 or 9 million out of the court settlement, she, now that she wasn’t sitting in jail, demanded that the policemen involved get fired and be unable to ever hold down a policemen’s job. Now, she is back demanding a whole review of the incident after quite a few years.

So, she became a millionaire, the attorneys got their 33%, and she doesn’t seem to want to go away. Seems as though the family of this woman who tried to stab a girl to death want their fair share too. Seems like this is never going to be settled just like the Tamir Rice thing.

There’s money to be made!


47 posted on 04/24/2021 9:18:57 AM PDT by laweeks (The air is always different to a midget on a crowded elevator.)
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To: hillarys cankles

The city is thinking, why not pay (insert settlement amount here) to that poor

family? It makes BLM happy. Lebron James won’t angry tweet about how

mean we are. And its not our money. ITS JUST TAX MONEY! Plenty where

that came from!


48 posted on 04/24/2021 9:19:13 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: bk1000

It was one of those circumstances where the patrolman should have pulled up....stepped out....fired three shots in the air to get everyone’s attention and then demanded everyone to lay on the ground until ‘peace’ had been restored.


49 posted on 04/24/2021 9:19:49 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

You don’t fire into the air. Those bullets have to come back down and can hurt or even kill someone.


50 posted on 04/24/2021 9:21:43 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: bk1000

Iirc, she got up from the ground to go after the black in pink


51 posted on 04/24/2021 9:21:45 AM PDT by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! )
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To: RandallFlagg

How soon until they rename the street McStabface Avenue?


52 posted on 04/24/2021 9:22:02 AM PDT by bgill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

After being contacted by a money-hungry lawyer. This is how they live and thrive. They make money off of Whitey, blame Whitey for their self-inflicted failures, and then hate Whitey.


53 posted on 04/24/2021 9:22:26 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about the family of the girl in pink whose life the officer saved????? Any word from them>??


54 posted on 04/24/2021 9:22:34 AM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: Larry Lucido

You made me look up constructive trust. Great suggestion.


55 posted on 04/24/2021 9:25:40 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yup....cha ching! “Well that useless lazy woman is finally gonna pay off.”


56 posted on 04/24/2021 9:26:29 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The family of savages should be charged the fee for the 4 bullets.


57 posted on 04/24/2021 9:26:57 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: Mouton

“Loser pays” only means “person with less money loses.” No private individual would ever beat a corporation, no average Joe would ever beat a millionaire.


58 posted on 04/24/2021 9:27:35 AM PDT by Jagermonster ("God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:16, NKJV.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Someone has to be held accountable”

So long as it ain’t us.


59 posted on 04/24/2021 9:27:47 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the link “shot dead after calling police for help” points to an article that doesn’t mention her calling for help.

and that seems to be the narrative...she’s the one who called police.


60 posted on 04/24/2021 9:29:42 AM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.)
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