Context Although Ma'Khia Bryant's family says she made the 911 call to the police, an independent investigation is still ongoing. Origin This is a trending topic but has not yet been rated by Snopes for reasons we’ll outline below. On April 20, 2021, around the same time a jury in Minneapolis convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering a Black man named George Floyd, a Black teen named Ma’Khia Bryant was fatally shot by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio. As the news media spoke to the 16-year-old’s family and the Columbus Police Department, questions grew about who called the police to the scene. We break down all the information currently available here.