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Ma’Khia Bryant was charging at two young women with a knife, police body camera video footage shows, when an officer arrived and fatally shot her outside the foster home she had been living in for about two months.
Ma’Khia’s foster mother Angela Moore, who wasn’t home at the time, said the dispute stemmed from an argument over a messy house and an unmade bed between Ma’Khia and some of Moore’s former foster children who had come to the house to throw Moore a birthday party. At least two of the women involved in the altercation were adults ages 20 and 22, according to a police report.
Ma’Khia Bryant.
If we believe the police and press accounts and chatter on social media, this honor roll student was some crazy girl lunging at two people with a knife and got shot four times in her chest for it by a cop who had to make a split-second decision.
Folks have been debating whether the cop should have used a taser instead of his gun. They’ve asked why he didn’t shoot her in the leg or arm. Why did he have to shoot her four times? Why didn’t she stay in the house after she called the police to report that she was being attacked by two women? Why didn’t she drop the knife once the police arrived? Why didn’t the officer try to de-escalate? How could he shoot a
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Cher received both praise and backlash from commentators who said she was acting like a quintessential “white savior.” Days earlier, she said in another tweet: “Feel so unbelievably sad for the brave ppl who stood their ground to bear witness, & chronicle the murder of George Floyd for all the world to see. These were Americans who didn’t/couldn’t walk from a fellow human being having his last breath … Crushed out of his body.”