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Police officer shot and killed a Black teenage girl holding a knife

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by Sparko View Post

    where did you find that? I thought it was the mother?
    From one of the press conferences ---

    During a press conference, officials play sound from two 911 calls made by witnesses on site where 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was shot by a responding officer. The officials have not yet identified who made the phone calls.


    Witness from Columbus police shooting calls 911: ‘We need a police officer here now’ (msnbc.com)

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post

    The girl that called 911 was the one killed.
    where did you find that? I thought it was the mother?

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  • seer
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    Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post

    It's definitely a bit of a mystery at this point - one that will likely lend itself to misinformation and hothead responses before we know all the details.
    What details? She was trying to stab people. That is clear.

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  • oxmixmudd
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    Originally posted by seer View Post

    Yet she is still attempting to stab two people after the cops arrive!
    It's definitely a bit of a mystery at this point - one that will likely lend itself to misinformation and hothead responses before we know all the details.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

    I have to believe this is a very troubled girl - she was reportedly in the care of Social Services, yet her mother is speaking for her. And the fact that she is the one who called 911 doesn't change the fact that she is the one with the knife in her hand threatening others.
    So, I was doublechecking on this, and went back to the Columbus Dispatch...

    The girl's mother, Paula Bryant, and the Franklin County Children's Services identified her as Ma'Khia Bryant. Although local law enforcement identified her as 15 years old at a news conference Tuesday, the FCCS gave the girl's age as 16.

    "Ma'Khia was a foster child, who was under the care of Franklin County Children Services," the FCCS said in a statement. "This was a tragic incident and FCCS is continuing its involvement with the family throughout this difficult time."


    Not sure if "the girl's mother" is her biological mom (they have the same last name), or foster mom, but the fact that she was under the care of FCCS indicates a troubled childhood at best.

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  • CivilDiscourse
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    Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post

    The girl that called 911 was the one killed.
    *claimed by the Aunt, so far, I haven't seen that corroborated.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by seer View Post

    Yet she is still attempting to stab two people after the cops arrive!
    I have to believe this is a very troubled girl - she was reportedly in the care of Social Services, yet her mother is speaking for her. And the fact that she is the one who called 911 doesn't change the fact that she is the one with the knife in her hand threatening others.

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by seer View Post

    Yet she is still attempting to stab two people after the cops arrive!
    This looks a lot like someone who was, by the point police arrived, blinded with rage.

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  • seer
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    Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post

    The girl that called 911 was the one killed.
    Yet she is still attempting to stab two people after the cops arrive!

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  • oxmixmudd
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    Originally posted by mossrose View Post
    I'm sure the headlines would have been better if the police had done nothing.

    "White cops stand around watching as black teenage girl kills another with a knife".



    Who called the police? Was it one of the girls being attacked? Because isn't it ironic, in that case, that the police are summoned for help by a black person after all the crap throughout the past year with BLM, etc., demanding police defunding and/or dismantling?
    The girl that called 911 was the one killed.

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post

    It's also hard to buy the "self-defense" argument when she's raising a knife against an unarmed opponent who is cowering in fear.
    Kind of like when someone declares self-defense when they shot someone in the back who had been running away.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
    It's also hard to buy the "self-defense" argument when she's raising a knife against an unarmed opponent who is cowering in fear.
    And any officer in his right mind would see a lethal attack in progress, and is sworn to defend persons from such attack.

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  • Mountain Man
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    Originally posted by Sparko View Post


    Even if true there was no way for the cop to know that, and he would still have had to shoot the girl in black because she was about to murder the girl in pink. A half second more and she would have been stabbed.
    It's also hard to buy the "self-defense" argument when she's raising a knife against an unarmed opponent who is cowering in fear.

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post

    I don't know how true any of this is, but this is the story I'm seeing in social media:

    Some girls came to the house of the girl in black to pick a fight. The girl in black called the police and then proceeded to grab a knife and confront her attackers. This is why it is being claimed that she was acting in self-defense even though the bodycam footage shows that she was actively assaulting the other girls and attempted to stab one before being shot.

    Even if true there was no way for the cop to know that, and he would still have had to shoot the girl in black because she was about to murder the girl in pink. A half second more and she would have been stabbed.

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post

    Are you nuts? She would have an instant target on her back. Peaceful protestors might even burn her house down.
    She is black. It would cause cognitive dissonance as they tried to reconcile a white cop shooting a black girl to save a black girl.

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