Hundreds gather for Black Lives Matter protest - bringing central Columbus to a standstill as they hold 16-minute silence over the shooting of Ma Khia Bryant
Around 200 people gathered in Goodale Park on Sunday in the latest protest over the death of Ma Khia Bryant
Bryant, 16, was shot and killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday afternoon
Demonstrators on Sunday blocked traffic at an intersection and held a 16 minute silence - one for every year of Bryant s life
They are demanding the resignation of top city officials and that the officer who killed Bryant be arrested
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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.
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A Laotian Buddhist shrine tucked into an East Side neighborhood? They knew it. Two virtually identical statues of an aviator? They located the right one.
The 16th annual contest challenged readers to decipher rhyming riddles pointing to the location of imaginary eggs. The winners of the always competitive early-bird prize are Steve Huggins, 54, of Bexley, and his daughter, Betsy, a 22-year-old Ohio State University student.
Their 10 correct answers arrived in my email inbox at 12:03 a.m. Tuesday, two minutes after the last riddle in the contest had been posted on Dispatch.com.
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