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  • Ohio police officer who fatally shot black teenager Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, is cleared of her April 2021 murder - as special prosecutors say 'deadly force' was justified

    03/11/2022 11:19:41 PM PST · by Morgana · 33 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 11, 2022 | Melissa Koenig
    The white Columbus police officer who fatally shot shot a 16-year-old black girl last year has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, Ohio prosecutors announced on Friday. Ma'Khia Bryant was killed last April by Nicholas Reardon after she swung a knife at another young woman. Reardon was 23 years old at the time. Police have said they were called to Bryant's foster home on April 20, 2021, because a group of girls was threatening to stab other members of the household. Body camera footage showed Reardon, who was 23 at the time, asking what was going on when he arrived...
  • ‘Breakfast Club’ Host DJ Envy Called a Race Traitor After Defending the Officer Who Shot Ma’Khia Bryant

    04/30/2021 2:11:21 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | April 29, 2021 | Warner Todd Huston
    ...Every case is different,” DJ Envy said. “And in this case, if I pull up to a scene and see a girl chasing another girl about to stab a girl, my job as a police officer is to make sure that girl doesn’t get killed. And the law allows me to stop that killing or that stabbing by any means necessary. That’s what the law allows me to do, on both sides.” Bryant was shot by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon when he responded to a 911 call about a fight between the 16-year-old Bryant and an adult woman. Bryant...
  • After Ma'Khia Bryant's killing, Ohio State University students demand the college sever ties with Columbus police

    04/26/2021 4:00:28 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 65 replies
    yahoo ^ | April 23, 2021 | Marquise Francis
    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...
  • Report: Ma’Khia Bryant’s Sister Called 911 in March, Asked Police to Remove Her from the Foster Care Home Where They Both Lived

    04/24/2021 12:44:36 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 31 replies
    The Ohio Star ^ | April 23, 2021 | Jack Windsor
    Janiah Bryant – Ma’Khia’s younger sister – called police in late March and threatened to kill someone if she was not removed from a Columbus-area foster home. A Columbus Division of Police report states that in the 911 call, Janiah told the dispatcher she wanted to leave the home and return to Franklin County Children Services. “When CPD officers arrived at the home, Janiah Bryant explained that she got into an argument with her sister, Ma’Khia Bryant, and foster mother, Angela Moore,” wrote Tom Sussi, the Central Ohio investigative reporter who broke the story. When officers informed Janiah Bryant that...
  • Family of Ma'Khia Bryant speaks out after teen is killed by Columbus police

    04/24/2021 1:12:07 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 125 replies
    nbcnews ^ | April 22, 2021 | MINYVONNE BURKE
    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...
  • Rutgers Professor Says Ma’Khia Bryant Was ‘Adultified’ Because ‘She Was A Big Girl’

    04/24/2021 4:36:10 AM PDT · by blam · 102 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 3-24-2021 | Hannah Bleu
    Rutgers Professor Britney CooperRutgers University associate professor Brittney Cooper said Ma’Khia Bryant, a black teenager whom a police officer fatally shot after the 16-year-old appeared to attack another with a knife, has been “adultified” because “she was a big girl,” making the remarks during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC. Cooper discussed the fatal police-involved shooting of Bryant, who is seen on camera wielding a knife, lunging at another girl. “Look, the arguments for our movement have never been that black people have to be perfect in order for them to deserve dignity, for us to have good policing, for us...