Posted on 04/24/2021 1:12:07 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The family of Ma'Khia Bryant remembered her as a "beautiful" and "sweet" girl and questioned why a Columbus, Ohio, officer shot her.
Her mother, Paula Bryant said: "Ma'Khia was a sweet little girl. She didn't deserve what happened to her."
Police said the video shows a girl, identified as Ma'Khia, trying to stab a person on the ground, as well as another person leaning against a car. Officer Reardon fires his weapon four times, and Ma'Khia falls to the ground, the video shows.
She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
"Ma'Khia was a good student, a good person, and did not deserve what happened to her. We want to remind everyone Ma'Khia was only a 16 year old teenage girl. We are deeply disturbed by the disproportionate and unjustified use of force in this situation," the family said. "And while we remain encouraged by public support and all of the prayers shared with us; at the end of the day, we know nothing will bring back our beloved Ma'Khia. We respectfully request justice for Ma'Khia Bryant."
Ma'Khia was in the foster care system . Cousin Don Bryant declined to comment about why or how long.
Her business education teacher, Austin Owens, said she had big dreams for herself.
"She was going to run the world, and she wasn't going to be ostentatious about it," Owens said. "She was going to do it." She wrote in a five-year-plan assignment that she wanted to go to college and open her own eyelash salon.
Her Facebook profile shows her blowing a kiss at the camera.
The department said police picked up what appeared to be a knife near Ma'Khia's body.
Don Bryant questioned why police did not use de-escalation tactics.
"What's going on that we have to be so trigger-happy these days?"
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She was white. White lives don’t matter. /sarc
Ask Justin Trudeau of Canada.
I actually saw a girl of color here in jax that had eyelashes that I swear were 2 inches long and wondered, who in the h*ll thinks that’s sexy or nice or anything.
Just shook my head and kept on walking.
An eyelash salon? An eyelash salon? What the (!*^& is an EYELASH SALON?
“Rayshawn Whiting, who was among them, said , “I feel like a polar bear with the ice caps melting.””
You know what she is being taught in public school.
So many comments by the cousin. Even those predicting the future!! Wow. But just couldn’t bring himself to say why she was in “foster care”. He demurred.
That’s a tell.
Could they be any more stupid?
Could that someone be Ma’Khia the Knife?
I can imagine her, her five year plan, in an one on one with a guidance counselor.
“I seek a career where I get to stick people every other day....”
“She didn’t deserve what happened to her.”
Uh, yes. Yes she did.
“We are deeply disturbed by the disproportionate and unjustified use of force in this situation,”
Do they mean the ginormous female about to stab the unarmed smaller female?
BINGO!!!
What about the girl she was attacking?
“Why was this car parked where it was— half on the apron, half on the street?”
Don’t forget blocking the sidewalk.
It is a cultural thing. The impact of your actions on others is not a consideration. If someone has to walk or drive around your car it is a sign of how important you are. To think otherwise is indicative of white privilege.
Ma’Khia deserved what exactly what happened to her.
That cop stopped a murder in progress.
F’k Ma’Khia.
She was a beautiful, sweet girl who went by the nickname “Stabby”.
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