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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I suspect they don’t want a trial, they just want the city to fold and pay a settlement.
Or he’d be sued for not acting.
Her dad was the one that brutally kicked that other girl in the head. They want a big payoff. Scum wanting payoffs for being scum.
That’s the direction things are going. The the blacks have at it.
Rarely have I seen a more SENSIBLE killing.
The "senseless killing" was imminent when the raging lunatic tub of lard went after the girl in pink.
Daddy was the guy that kicked that other gal in the head.
Then the cops will be brought up on charges of NOT intervening to save lives.
It’s a no-win situation. Hence PDs all over the land not being able to fill open academy slots and losing staff to early retirement.
Thanks Revolutionary Commie Progs.
What’s a knife fight between friends?
One would think they don’t have a leg to stand on, legally speaking, but the city may pay something just to make this go away.
Black lives don't matter when it's a black killing a black. Do you see riots in the street over that? No, you don't.
It's clear that black lives only matter when a white cop kills a black perp.
The cops have every reason to stand back and let them kill each other at this point.
As for me, I'm glad my oldest son's last day as a LEO was yesterday. He'll find something else to do to earn a living, of that I'm confident. Something else that won't involve having to deal with all this "woke bullsh*t" as a LEO and that's fine by me!
Oh, BS!
If this was true, you'd tell the officers present and not try to kill someone in front of them.
Works for me.
Not necessarily.
We haven’t seen the riots yet because the police stood by and “let” blacks kill each other.
Whitey police be damned either way.
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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 4/24/2021, 11:57:03 AM by E. Pluribus Unum
pink lives dont matter
Of course, she's worth a few million dead, but they wouldn't give her the time of day alive.
Just send in lebrainless next time....he seems to have all the answers. Or a social worker.
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