Posted on 04/22/2021 7:35:01 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Ma'Khia Bryant and two other young women argued over a messy house and unmade bed before a fight that ended with the fatal police shooting shooting of the Black teenager, the woman who cared for Ma'Khia in foster care said Thursday.
Angela Moore said two of her former foster children had come to her Columbus, Ohio, home Tuesday to celebrate her birthday when the young women and Ma'Khia bickered over housekeeping.
"It was over keeping the house clean," Moore said. "The older one told them to clean up the house because 'Mom doesn't like the house dirty,'" Moore recalled being told after she arrived home from work. "So that's how it all started."
Officials in Columbus have released body camera video of Tuesday's shooting -- during which Ma'Khia lunges at another young woman with a knife outside the house -- and urged residents to await the facts in the investigation.
Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Moore relayed for CNN the story she said she was told by one of the girls in the house at the time.
"You're not the guardian of me," Bryant replied, according to the story Moore said she was told.
"They argue all the time," Moore recalled, "but I never thought it would escalate like that."
Moore said she received a frantic call from one of the former foster children, who is seen in police body camera footage wearing pink and recoiling as Ma'Khia lunges at her with a shimmering knife.
"Mom, get home. Where are you? They're going crazy," Moore said the young woman told her. "She said they shot Ma'Kiah and I said, 'Huh?' It was just crazy."
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We’ll have to wait for Res. Biden to determine if the girl in pink is really black.
Oh no, in this case a man would likely bring out the big guns, Molotov cocktail in the window, a full mag into the house at 3 a.m. etc. In fact, there was just a video released of some angry woman walking up behind and shooting her "Girlfriend" in the back of the head, point blank, broad daylight....NY I think.
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She did, she started wearing body armor.
The hill to die on.
Well if the knife girl was living in foster care then its sort of interesting that her mother has been shown saying what a sweet kid she was.
I’m so sick of all the unwarranted virtue signaling. Bet they sure wouldn’t be doing this if both kids had been white. So in effect Ohio State is being racist.
Don’t shoot Ma’Kia! I just had it detailed.
Well, that was my question. If this kid was such a model student, from such a great family, what the hell was she doing in a foster care home. Looks like a pretty damn nice neighborhood. Does foster mom make the mortgage payments with the foster care checks?
We should assume MaKiah had a pretty hard life, wonder how many years she had been in foster care and how many homes?
I was a volunteer in a Columbus Realtors group for a reading program where we went into the public schools once a month and read to elementary kids. While I was reading one day to first graders, this darling little black boy raised his hand and asked if he could tell me something. I said sure, he then said “my daddy shot and killed my mom and I live with a foster mom now”. . I just melted, went to him and gave him a big hug, just heartbreaking. Afterwards, I talked to the teacher. He was six and had been in three foster homes in one year. So, God only knows what these kids have seen in their lives.
I wouldn't be surprised if she did. There are rumors going around that some foster parents are in it for the extra money and don't care about the kids.
Gee that household is strict...
if you dont make your bed you get stabbed...
Sounds like a domestic dispute. With a couple of sideshows on the side.
You can’t imagine how damaged some foster kids are. I know foster parents who have taken in many foster kids, and are specially trained to take in severely damaged kids. They adopted the last one several years ago, who had been physically, sexually, and emotionally abused from birth til he was taken in to their care at age 7. His birth father was a “preacher”, who will never get out of prison for what he and the mother did to him. The boy is sweet, but has some developmental delay and learning disabilities.
Probably does, and I don't see anything wrong with that.
The foster care checks are supposed to pay for feeding, clothing, housing and raising the kids.
Paying the mortgage is part of the housing. Or do you expect foster care to only be done in a slum? And a rented slum at that.
#9. Sounds like the title of a new movie, “Chase Momma Around the House With a Knife”.
Who got kicked and by who (the man in blue)?
From what I read somewhere the guy doing the kicking is Ma’Khia’s bio-dad. He’s kicking a girl that was fighting with Ma’Khia. Kicked her twice that I could see in the video. The girl is a minor also.
As a LEO... every day, you get called from one crappy situation to another. Then, you have to write reports about it. It doesn’t take long before you realize that you are like a lawn mower. NOTHING CHANGES! The grass grows. You mow it. It grows. You mow it...
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