Grim list of deaths at police hands grows even after Derek Chauvin verdict
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Police investigate a shooting in Wednesday which a man was killed by a deputy in Elizabeth, North Carolina. (Associated Press)
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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.