We are fighting for our lives.'ĭuring a council committee hearing Tuesday evening that allowed members to meet nominees for a new police civilian review board to investigate officers' uses of force, Council president Shannon Hardin announced that there had been another police shooting.

Hana Abdur-Rahim, with the Black Abolitionists Collective, said, 'We are in a literal genocide. 'Why did they kill this baby?' she asked aloud. Kiar Yakita of the Black Liberation Movement, said she is not surprised that another police shooting happened. '.In the end, you know what, you can't be Black.' Taynor said through a megaphone of the Chauvin verdict. 'We don't get to celebrate nothing,' K.C. Protesters with Black Lives Matter signs, megaphones and a loudspeaker joined the crowd gathered behind crime scene tape about a half-block away from the shooting scene. Many chanted, “Say her name!” While others signified the victim’s age by yelling, “she was just a kid.” Officers with bicycles pushed protesters back and threatened to deploy pepper spray on the crowd. Hundreds of protesters pushed past police barriers outside the headquarters and approached officers as city officials were showing the bodycam video inside. Others gathered at the city’s police headquarters to protest, a week after officers pepper-sprayed a group that tried to enter the headquarters over the police killing of a Black man who had a gun in a hospital emergency room. 'Say her name': Protests develop at shooting sceneĪ crowd had gathered Tuesday night at the scene on Legion Lane, which police had partially blocked off to traffic. The girl lived in a foster home on Legion Lane and got into an altercation with someone else at the residence, she said.īryant said her niece had a knife, but maintained that the girl dropped the knife before she was shot multiple times by a police officer. Hazel Bryant told The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network, that she is the aunt of Ma’Khia Bryant. It’s unclear whether anyone else was injured. The girl was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

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