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Protests continued Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, following the fatal police shooting of 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant last week.
Roughly 200 people gathered in the city s Goodale Park before marching to a nearby street, where the crowd stopped and blocked traffic for an extended period of time.
Many chanted Bryant s name, held Black Lives Matter flags, and called for police accountability, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Today we are here to continue to lift up the life of Ma Khia Bryant, organizer Hana Abdur-Rahim told the crowd. I don t need a video to know she was a child and she deserved to live.
Flanked by members of Bryant s family, organizer Hana Abdur-Rahim struck a somber tone before those gathered on a sunny April Sunday afternoon. Today we are here to continue to lift up the life of Ma Khia Bryant, she told the crowd. I don t need a video to know she was a child and she deserved to live.
She then introduced a woman named Myra Duke who said she was Bryant s aunt. Speaking to the crowd, Duke thanked them for their dedication to her niece and expressed how sorely the girl s family misses her. It doesn t seem real, said Duke, who later declined to talk to the Dispatch but said she lives out of town. Ma Khia was an angel. This situation didn t have to happen like this; the system failed her.
The deep sighs of relief drawn by the Black community, protesters, activists and allies after Chauvin s guilty verdict were punctured by news of the death of another Black person at the hands of police. Relief is just so tepid. It s tepid because I know this does not protect the next person from getting shot, protect the next person from being brutalized, Usmani said. The police just can t stop themselves from killing Black people even with all the attention on this.
The shooting comes as many advocates – from community activists to members of Floyd s family to high-profile civil rights attorney Ben Crump – around the country stress that progress is still needed in the areas of police reform and racial equity.