Columbus police fatally shoot teen girl as Chauvin verdict announced

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Cynical Sindee: Even after Daunte Wright, were you actually still clinging to the idea that a guilty verdict would nix another season of wild in the streets and mitigate calls to abolish the police? Get ready for more annoying months of pretentious, virtue-signaling theater from opportunistic white people playing their guilt/remorse card for career ascension...
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skb...e-shooting

EXCERPT: A teenage girl was fatally shot by police in Ohio Tuesday afternoon, minutes before a judge announced that a jury found former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the the killing of George Floyd.

[...] Family members identified the girl who was killed as Ma’Khia or Makiyah Bryant, who was 15 or 16; relatives provided different ages and spellings for the girl's name. The girl's aunt Hazel Bryant told reporters her niece lived in a foster home and got into an altercation with someone else at the house, the Dispatch reported. According to the Daily Beast, the girl's aunt said the teen called police, as well as her father and grandmother, for help and grabbed a knife to defend herself.

She said her niece dropped it before an officer shot her multiple times. “She was a good kid. She was loving,” Hazel Bryant said. “Yeah, she had issues but that's OK. All of us go through shit. ... She didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street.”

The girl's mother Paula Bryant told reporters her daughter was an honor-roll student and a sweet kid... (MORE - details)
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Predictably, the verdict in the Chauvin case is "just a start" or "not enough". The mob won't settle for anything short of a lynching.
You can't appease a mob. They are inherently irrational.
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