After Derek Chauvin conviction, Black people continue to die at hands police
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Students leave the Ohio Union on the campus of Ohio State University to protest the shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant a day earlier by Columbus Police, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)AP
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Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation.
The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who was swinging a knife during a fight with another person in Columbus, is in some ways more representative of how Black and other people of color are killed during police encounters than the death of George Floyd, pinned to the ground by Chauvin and captured on video for all the world to see.