Given yesterdays trial, I am curious to see how this plays out especially with what the media is saying. I know that this one is a tough call, but I am curious to here what everyone else thinks about it.
For those that don't know, Ma'Khia Bryant was a 16 year old Black girl. She called the police because she was getting jumped but when police arrived, she had a knife and was chasing after one of her assailants. Look up any more news source to read more.
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I understand a young person losing their life is always a tragedy, but I don’t really understand the outcry about something like this. A lot of it due to people jumping to reaction, like Lebron before he deleted his tweet and walked back his words. She was lunging at another girl with a knife attempting to stab and cause bodily harm to another youth. The officer responded to the scene while this is all happening and has to react. He fired shots after repeatedly pleading for her to stop. Also for the people saying why were multiple shots fired, that’s how cops are trained when discharging their weapons. If he doesn’t act, people are going to be up in arms on why he let a girl get stabbed. This one doesn’t make sense to me.
Tragic and gone too soon but not too surprising given the circumstances. Should obviously be reviewed in detail and the conduct of the police officer should be analyzed but probably no foul play. I don’t think this is the same as Derek Chauvin at all - the girl was charging someone with a knife. Of course a gun going off is a possibility in that circumstance.
They show a slow mo replay of it and there's what appears to be a grown man that kicks one of the girls in the face as she's down on the ground.
What happened was terrible but the replay from my perspective looks like she had intent and was bringing enough momentum towards that girl in the pink with the knife. She probably could have killed her if she connected with the knife by stabbing her once with that much force.
I've never shot a gun so 4 shots seems excessive but even in the body cam footage it's apparent he had to make a split second decision or the girl in the pink would have bleed out had she been stabbed.
I'm also confused about how she was getting jumped with all of those people around. Typically when you get jumped the people run away after beating you up and there isn't a crowd around or you don't have time to get a knife or call the police.
I think four shots seems excessive to the layman, as his/her frame of reference is usually a movie where someone downs a bad guy immediately with a single shot to the chest. If you ever watch footage of real shootings, you see that a single shot of 9mm, .40 S&W, or .38spc (most popular police carry calibers) anywhere other than the brain or straight into the heart rarely stops a determined individual in their tracks. There was a video a few months ago of a suicide-by-cop where the dude takes like an entire magazine of 9mm from the officer's Glock before he drops. Seriously, he takes like 8-10 shots to the chest before he finally goes down. It was incredible. Here's a link to the vid: https://usacrime.com/2021/02/07/montgomery-county-deputy-fatally-shoots-man-struck-him-piece-wood/
Likely a single shot anywhere other than the brain or heart in this scenario would not have guaranteed the girl wouldn't have stabbed the other girl. From my understanding, that's why police are trained to fire several shots center mass in life-or-death situations like this. A shot to the brain or heart is never guaranteed in these fluid and high stress scenarios, and pistols are not generally as accurate as people think.
The same guy who stomped the girl can be seen later saying "you shot a little girl" or something to that effect, which is a quote that a lot of people have homed in on, while ignoring that the same person was stomping someone out two frames before.
I don't think this scenerio is as cut and dry as some of the other accidents. But, what is the point of training if so many officers are incompetent? Their training policies need to be improved so cops are actually qualified to do their job.
Not really sure how what this cop did is considered incompetent?
This cop should be praised for having saved a life.
The cop basically gets out of his car and within seconds is shouting stop. Bryant is fighting some other girl, knocks her down, a guy kicks that girl in the head, then Bryant turns around and lunges with a knife at a girl who was just standing there when the police arrived. It looked like there was zero chance she didn’t know the police were there. Also kids fight plenty, and girl fights have almost no chance of being fatal. Unless someone brings a big knife. 100% justified, not questionable at all.
Go on twitter and look at liberal responses. They’re completely fucking insane.
"Plenty of kids try to stab people in the street. That's just part of growing up! No reason for the cop to respond that way. Straight up murder. sHe wAs a gOoD GiRL aNd aN hOnOr sTuDeNt!"
Lol. I literally just read a story where the guardian/mom said “she was the kindest girl who wouldn’t hurt anyone, and always loved others with the biggest heart.” Like wtf??? Let’s not act like the cop just walks up and fires four shots at a random teenager. If this cop was to somehow get charged of anything or fired, we may see some sort of nationwide cop boycott at this rate
I think a fatal shot is not necessary, but the video showed that she was going to stab 2 girls.
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