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Ma’Khia Bryant shooting – Hundreds of protesters take to the streets after black teen holding knife was shot dead by cop
Updated: Apr 22 2021, 11:02 ET
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HUNDREDS of protesters took to the streets on Wednesday night to demonstrate against the police shooting Ma’Khia Bryant.
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Chants of say her name and black lives matter thundered out from the crowdCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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Ma Khia Bryant is pictured aboveCredit: Makhia Bryant/Facebook
Just one day after the fatal shooting, a group of between 200 and 250 activists marched through the streets of Columbus, chanting black lives matter and say her name .
the man shot and killed by police at Mount Carmel St. Ann s medical center in Westerville but they also were about much more.
All of those Black men were killed by law-enforcement officers in central Ohio in recent months.
Yet it takes just one look at the signs that many protesters carry such as “Columbus is Not Safe for Black People” and “The Whole Damn System is Guilty As Hell” to see that the protests represent pain and anger that have grown over many decades.
They are an expression, activists and experts say,
of the collective frustration that has built up in the Black community for being held down by systemic inequities in American institutions. Those institutions include housing, education, banking and government, but the results of this racism are felt most sharply and consequentially when it comes to law enforcement.
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