A Black Lives Matter activist at Wednesday's demonstration holds a placard protesting the killing of Bryant.
Posted on 04/26/2021 4:00:28 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Destiny Brown, senior at Ohio State University, breathed a sigh of relief in her dorm room when the guilty verdict came down for Derek Chauvin. But minutes later, she learned that a 16-year-old Black girl, Ma’Khia Bryant, had been killed that afternoon by Columbus police.
“I can’t even begin to process the fact we live in a world where people’s lives — guilty or not, innocent or not — their lives just do not matter,” Brown said.
Overcome with a feeling of helplessness, Brown fired off a group message to her friends. Following the demonstration, the crowd marched to the Ohio Statehouse, chanting Bryant’s name.
As of Friday afternoon, many details surrounding Bryant’s death remained unclear. Police arrived at the home where she lived, and in police body camera footage, Bryant is seen holding a knife,fighting with another girl.
An officer approaches the girls, asking, “What’s going on?” before yelling at them to “Get down!” three times.
Moments later Bryant lunges at a second girl as a Columbus officer, Nicholas Reardon, fires four shots at Bryant.
“She’s just a kid,” a bystander is heard saying.
“As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting,” Floyd family attorney Ben Crump tweeted. “Another child lost! Another hashtag.”
Brown believes more could have been done to deescalate the situation.
“You have a choice,” she said. “There’s a gun and there’s a Taser. He made that choice to pick the gun up.”
“Black students here continue to feel left out as repeated instances of violence against our community go unaddressed and disregarded,” said a Black female OSUjunior.
“All we have asked of our university is to truly make us feel safe, seen and heard by divesting from CPD.”
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IMO, this is the beginning of the end for BLM. Illustrates clearly their blind spot for black-on-black victims.
Uhmm. OK.
A Black Lives Matter activist at Wednesday's demonstration holds a placard protesting the killing of Bryant.
And by not kicking out these idiots, another college proves that its standards have been reduced to those of the Democrat party.
How do “these people” come up with such creative names for their offspring when you know they couldn’t read a “Dick, Jane, and Sally” book?
Help help,I.m being raped in my dorm room...who ys gonna call....
Help help. some wit a gun is breaking into my dorm room. Who ya gonna call....
911: Social worker hot line...we’ll be there in 20 minutes and we will be armed with bouquets.
Ghostbusters!
Car and pharmaceutical commercials?
Someone needs to ask this thug how old was the girl Ma’khia was trying to stab/kill?????
Destiny Brown is too stupid to be in College.
The reason they don’t feel safe is that the white and black liberal leaders make them afraid. No one says to students, “Hey, don’t commit crimes and DON’T RESIST ARREST and you’ll be fine.”
She wasn’t “Killed’ for God’s sake she was STABBING ANOTHER PERSON..has this country completely lost their freakin mind I guess now stabbing is all good..get into a fight, use a knife but hey as long as its not one of those naughty guns right commies
Ma’Khia....a derivative of My Kia.
I give it two weeks.
Yes, after all we would not want the Columbus police stopping any stabbings........./s
“...IMO, this is the beginning of the end for BLM. Illustrates clearly their blind spot for black-on-black victims...”
Bwahahahaha!
Yeah, in a SANE world, maybe. Not in the world we currently live in, however. Seeing as how we now live in Bizarro World, hypocrisy amongst the “woke” community is actually a career-enhancer. And besides, they can always throw right back at you: “Only a white supremacist Nazi would say that!”
I disagree. There are many blacks who have been victimized by violent crime, and BLM is coming down on the side of the perps. That really makes the wrong impression. A lot of corporations are already quietly walking back their BLM support.
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