Police in Columbus, Ohio, have reportedly just shot a 15-year-old Black girl in the chest and killed her:
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I have no words.
#BlackLivesMatter
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I have no words.
#BlackLivesMatter
Mayor of Columbus speaks out about the police shooting of the teenaged Black girl, asks for “residents to remain calm and allow BCI to gather the facts”:
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The information in @MsFlowersTweets and @LeslieMac tweets below matches what I’m seeing circulating in my searches:
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News media also now confirming family reports that Columbus Police shot and killed 15-year-old #MakiahBryant after *she* called *them* for help:
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This is #MakiyahBryant’s aunt:
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This is Ma’Khia Bryant.
Her mother says she was 16-years-old (not 15), an honor roll student, and a sweet child
Columbus Police reportedly responded to the child’s call for assistance and shot her in the chest four times, killing her.
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Her mother says she was 16-years-old (not 15), an honor roll student, and a sweet child
Columbus Police reportedly responded to the child’s call for assistance and shot her in the chest four times, killing her.
#MaKhiaBryant
#BlackLivesMatter
Columbus Police tell the gathering crowd on the scene that “Blue Lives Matter”—AFTER SHOOTING A TEENAGED GIRL TO DEATH.
There is NO reforming a system in which cops literally see themselves as victims immediately after they’ve killed children.
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There is NO reforming a system in which cops literally see themselves as victims immediately after they’ve killed children.
#MaKhiaBryant
#BlackLivesMatter
Protests in the name of #MaKhiaBryant have begun in Columbus, Ohio.
Bryant was a 16-year-old honor roll student shot to death by police this afternoon after she called them for help dealing with a threat at her home.
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Bryant was a 16-year-old honor roll student shot to death by police this afternoon after she called them for help dealing with a threat at her home.
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Thread of videos by Ohio State student paper covering the progress of the protest in Columbus in response to police shooting 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant to death after she called them for help:
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Ma’Khia Bryant’s mother describes her daughter.
From the video I saw, Ma’Khia was wearing brightly-colored rainbow Crocs when police shot her in the chest four times, killing her.
She died with the still apple-round cheeks of a young child.
#MaKhiaBryant
#BlackLivesMatter
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From the video I saw, Ma’Khia was wearing brightly-colored rainbow Crocs when police shot her in the chest four times, killing her.
She died with the still apple-round cheeks of a young child.
#MaKhiaBryant
#BlackLivesMatter