By Princess WeekesApr 21st, 2021, 11:56 am
Just after the news of the guilty verdict in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in last year’s killing of George Floyd, a new story of Black death flooded the news. A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, shot a teenage girl, 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, Tuesday evening while responding to reports of an attempted stabbing.
There has been a lot of conflicting information about what exactly happened, who called the police, and what Ma’Khia was doing.
One neighbor, identifed as Ira Graham III, said to
CNN: “I can certainly see why the police officer chose to stop her. Now, whether or not less lethal force could have been used, whether or not a Taser could have been chosen instead of a gun I don’t know.”