COLUMBUS, Ohio â Rallies in the wake of MaâKhia Bryantâs death continued Saturday as a crowd gathered on the steps of City Hall to decry police brutality and demand change while listening to a host of speakers, including the girl s mother, Paula Bryant.
Bryant described her daughter â a 16-year-old who was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer on April 20 â as an honor roll student who loved the color blue and TikTok hairstyle videos. She had a great sense of humor and was kind to anyone she met, she said.
âShe had a beautiful smile, was loving and had a beautiful personality,â she told those gathered, many of whom wore neon butterfly hair clips in honor of MaâKhia. âShe was a protector and had a motherly spirit about her.â
Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Farnoush Amiri
COLUMBUS, Ohio The younger sister of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant called 911 a few weeks before Bryant’s fatal shooting by a Columbus police officer, saying the girls had been in a fight with each other and she wanted to leave their foster home, records show.
“I don’t want to be here no more,” the girl told a police dispatcher, adding that she’d been in the home more than a year.
The 911 call was one of more than a dozen placed from the Columbus foster home since 2017, most by Angela Moore the home’s foster mother seeking help with foster girls who had left without permission or didn’t return after being out, according to documents and 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press.
BUTTERFLIES were released at the funeral Ma Khia Bryant, the Ohio teen shot dead by police.
During an emotional ceremony at the First Church of God in Columbus, the “smart” 16-year-old was remembered for her kindness.
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Mourners hug each other at the ceremonyCredit: Reuters
Ma’Khia was shot four times April 20 by Officer Nicholas Reardon, a moment that was captured on police video.
Video showed the knife-wielding teen being shot multiple times amid an altercation with two other females in front of her foster home.
But at the memorial she was remembered as a loving family member and a good student with a promising future.
Teen’s sister sought help before shooting
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press/Report for America
Pallbearers carry the casket for Ma’Khia Bryant following the funeral Friday for the 16-year-old at the First Church of God in Columbus. Bryant was fatally shot by a Columbus police officer during an altercation on April 20.
COLUMBUS The younger sister of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant called 911 a few weeks before Bryant’s fatal shooting by a Columbus police officer, saying the girls had been in a fight with each other and she wanted to leave their foster home, records show.