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Haley Fielding writes out "Ma'Khia Say Her Name" in chalk before the start of a community vigil for 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at Douglas Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio. Body camera video released Wednesday shows a Columbus officer fatally shoot Bryant, who swung at two other people with a knife.
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April 24, 2021 - 8:00 PM
Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets.