Ma’Khia Bryant Another Victim of the Kill Squad
It is a somber world. Ma’Khia Bryant was shot and killed by a police officer. Four bullets went into her body. Police firearm training teaches officers to shoot until the threat is over. Ma’Khia Bryant was a minor female, any reasonable person knows that it doesn’t take many hollow point bullets to stop one minor female. On police officer body cam footage viewers see there was an altercation between Ma’Khia and another young lady; however, the officer decided to use deadly force before asking Bryant to drop the weapon she brandished. Is that what the justice system considers justified?
How is Columbus Going to Handle Another Killing?
In a press conference, a question was posed. “Can an officer shoot a leg…?” The interim Chief of Police answered the question, by stating officers train to shoot the center mass of the body.
The city of Columbus, Ohio has a right to be hurt, they have a right to be mad, and they have a right to flood Mayor Andrew Ginther with letters and calls to make them hold the officers involved in that shooting accountable. We live in a world now where when the police are called out to an altercation, the ambulance should follow along, because someone’s probably going to die.
This killing came just moments after George Floyd’s family heard the guilty murder conviction of the officer that killed their loved one. Ma’Khia was only sixteen years old when she was killed. This young lady had a story to tell, and now her words have been forever silenced.
According to U.S News, LeBron James took down a tweet he made about the killing of Ma’Khia Bryant stating, “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because it’s being used to create more hate,” the Los Angeles Lakers star said.
Written by: Tennile Friday