And someone who left a mark in a short time.
“This little girl has touched and shaken the world,” said Bishop Timothy J. Clarke, pastor of First Church of God, which prompted applause from the more than 100 in attendance at Bryant s funeral at the Southeast Side church.
“And she made a difference.
Speakers at funeral of Ma Khia, the 16-year-old shot and killed by Columbus police officer Nicholas Readon seconds after arriving on a 911 call reporting an attempted stabbing, also said her death never should have happened.
“We are here because injustice is here, ”said Jamal Harris Bryant, pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Ma Khia Bryant s family gathers for her funeral in Ohio
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