Ma’Khia Bryant’s funeral was filled with calls to protect Black girls
Ma’Khia Bryant loved styling her curly hair in front of her camera phone and posting about it on TikTok.
“This was a child that had so much love in her heart,” her cousin Don Bryant said at her funeral on Friday. “A smart girl, capable, and deserving of fulfilling all her hopes and dreams in this world.”
Ma’Khia, 16, died April 20 during an encounter with a Columbus, Ohio, police officer at her foster home. The mother of Breonna Taylor, elected officials and clergy members joined her family on Friday to mourn her passing and call for systemic justice.
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City leaders in Columbus, Ohio, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday asking for an investigation into the city's police department following several police killings of Black people, including the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant last week.
Ma Khia Bryant: Family attorney calls for federal investigation into teen s police shooting death
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Farnoush Amiri
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Police release bodycam footage of officer shooting teenage girl appearing to hold knife
Police chose to quickly release video of the incident, which Interim Police Chief Michael Woods called unprecedented. (Source: Columbus Police Department via WSYX/WTTE)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - There should be a federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant by a Columbus police officer, along with a probe into the handling of Bryant’s foster care placement, a lawyer representing the teen s family said Wednesday.
by: FARNOUSH AMIRI and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Report for America/Associated Press
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Apr 28, 2021 / 06:53 PM EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) While Ohio’s capital city has made significant progress enacting changes to its police department, the city needs additional help because of “fierce opposition” to reform within the agency, city leaders said Wednesday as they requested a Justice Department investigation following a series of police killings of Black people and other controversies.
The request by Mayor Andrew Ginther and City Attorney Zach Klein both Democrats capped several painful months for the city, culminating most recently with the April 20 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant as she swung a knife at a woman. Bryant was Black and the rookie officer who shot her was white.