And more changes are coming. Mayor Andrew J. Ginther s is expected to name a new police chief this week the first ever to be hired from outside the division s ranks.
But the changes in the last year are a drop in the bucket compared to what needs to be done, according to local activists.
Hana Abdur-Rahim, an organizer with the Black Abolitionist Collective of Ohio, called the city’s actions performative. She said community members have pushed for a civilian police review board for years, and she believes it’s telling that the city didn’t move forward with it until after Floyd’s death.
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Don’t Blame Foster Care
The system has flaws, but Ma’Khia Bryant’s problems began long before she entered it. Min
When it became clear that even the most sympathetic observers would have a hard time blaming the police for the death of Ma’Khia Bryant whom an officer shot and killed as she was about to stab another girl with a knife activists instead turned their ire on the foster care system.
Bryant was living with her sister in what was apparently a neglectful, and possibly violent, foster home at the time of her death. Indeed, the fight she was engaged in when she was shot may have involved a former resident at the home; one report claims that the foster mother may have even asked the other girl to fight Bryant. Since 2018, according to records obtained by the
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Don’t Blame Foster Care The system has flaws, but Ma’Khia Bryant’s problems began long before she entered it.
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The Social Order
When it became clear that even the most sympathetic observers would have a hard time blaming the police for the death of Ma’Khia Bryant whom an officer shot and killed as she was about to stab another girl with a knife activists instead turned their ire on the foster care system.
Bryant was living with her sister in what was apparently a neglectful, and possibly violent, foster home at the time of her death. Indeed, the fight she was engaged in when she was shot may have involved a former resident at the home; one report claims that the foster mother may have even asked the other girl to fight Bryant. Since 2018, according to records obtained by the
The killing of Ma’Khia Bryant has galvanized foster parents to push for changes in how police and government agencies care for children who need a home.
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