A funeral service is held for 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant at the First Church of God on April 30, 2021 in Columbus, Ohio. Bryant was shot and killed on April 20 by a Columbus police officer answering a domestic dispute call.
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After watching 15 seconds of police body camera footage last week, viewers of various races and political affiliations had made a decision: 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant was “the aggressor” — the “fat,” “huge,” “knife-wielding attacker” and “maniac” who deserved to be fatally shot by the police on April 20 in Columbus, Ohio.
According to these viewers, Nicholas Reardon, the police officer who immediately shot and killed Bryant, who was holding a knife, was justified. That she was a teenager in the middle of an altercation, in which she was presumed to be defending herself, did not matter.
CNN played Cahill’s remarks from the trial where he criticized Waters:
"I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trail being overturned. …
"I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law, and to the judicial branch and our function. …
"A congresswoman’s opinion really doesn’t matter a whole lot.
"Anyway, so motion for mistrial is denied."
Asked to respond to those comments, Waters claimed that the judge
“walk[ed] it back.”
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Protests against police killings flared across the US this weekend, from Minneapolis to Chicago to Portland, as Americans wait for a verdict in the trial of the white police officer charged with murdering George Floyd last year. Closing arguments are expected in the Derek Chauvin trial on Monday. The most serious charge the former Minneapolis officer is facing in Floyd’s death is second-degree murder, but the jury might choose to find him guilty...
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State Legislators Celebrate Life of Rose Ochi
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SACRAMENTO — The California Legislature on Jan. 11 adjourned in memory to celebrate the life of civil rights activist and attorney Takayo Rose Matsui Ochi, led by Assemblymembers Chris Holden (D-Pasadena), Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), and Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance).
Rose Ochi
Ochi, who endured her early life in American concentration camps during World War II, was the first Asian American woman commissioner on the Los Angeles Police Commission and the first Asian American woman U.S. assistant attorney general. She passed away on Dec. 13, 2020.
“Rose Ochi is a national treasure,” said Holden. “She not only survived the internment camps but used that experience to make a positive impact for Japanese Americans with redress movement, and fought for justice and fairness for all Americans.”
Rose Ochi, 81; Attorney, Civil Rights Leader
Nisei broke barriers as an Asian American woman in a career that spanned Washington and L.A.
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Rose Ochi shattered glass ceilings throughout her career. In 2012, she posed for a portrait at the California Forensic Science Institute, where she served as executive director. (MARIO GERSHOM REYES/Rafu Shimpo)
By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor
Takayo Rose Matsui Ochi, an attorney, civil rights activist and political strategist who shattered numerous glass ceilings such as becoming the first Asian American woman commissioner on the Los Angeles Police Commission and the first Asian American woman assistant attorney general, passed away on Dec. 13, two days shy of her 82