#Ma'Khia Bryant

[bossymarmalade]

Installation view of Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at the Chicago Cultural Center

The exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center opens with the installation “Homegoing.” The work is a suspended image depicting a screenshot from Ma’Khia Bryant’s personal TikTok. In the photo she’s laying her edges, her jet-black hair shining, her baby face clean and free of makeup. Below the printed photo is a collection of candles, stuffed animals, and a bouquet. On April 20, 2021, Ma’Khia was killed by an Ohio police officer in what was later determined a justifiable homicide. She was 16 years old. 

In the gallery titled Rest and Recess: The Courtyard, the exhibition transports the viewer to the Caribbean where Black girls play together unburdened and hopeful. A tree, sculpted by Robert Narciso and made from branches from Rekia Boyd’s family home, sits in the center of the room casting a protective shadow over everything. From its branches hang yellow paper hearts scribed with the hopes and dreams of little Black girls. The sound of their joyful cacophony activates the space.

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#chromatic voice #ma'khia bryant #rekia boyd #a long walk home #scheherazade tillet #robert narciso #we all make art #usermarmalade #police brutality #missing and murdered black women #say her name #black lives matter

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Tumblr only allows 30 pictures, and there's another 48 of these, so I'm going to skip ahead to the punch in the gut that is the last one in the thread, #77.

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Ask yourself why you know the names "Michael Brown" and "Ma'Khia Bryant" - and were even scolded to "say her name" - who was shot to stop her from trying to murder another girl (anyone remember her name... anyone?) ...

... but you don't know the name "Romelo Jones, Jr." who was shot and killed the same year he was born. Say his name. More importantly, ask why?

Now ask yourself whether black lives actually matter to BLM. Or are they just useful?

#Ma'Khia Bryant #Romelo Jones Jr. #BLM #black lives matter #gun violence #black on black violence #black on black #violent crime #religion is a mental illness

[mos-twin-mattress]

Thinkin ab you Trayvon.

You should be 29. You should have celebrated your birthday with family, you should be gettin hugged by your momma. Maybe you would have your own son or daughter by now...

What happened to you, should never happen to anyone. I wish they had held him accountable. I wish you were here... You were so young.

I cried when i heard what happened to you...

You were a bright light in this world, and I love you sib. I will continue to fight for us. I will never stop. We (Black people) are so deserving of love and care.

The things they do to keep us down, we wont buckle, not ever. I will fight for you, for Breonna, for Casey, for Mike, for George, for Eric, for Ma'Khia, for Sandra.

I HAVE to fight... I can't stop, I cant even slow down... I love being Black, I love how amazing Black people are, I love how resilient we are. But I HATE that we HAVE to be resilient...

#black is beautiful #black pride #black history month #trayvon martin #blacklivesmatter #black lives fucking matter #black lives matter #happy birthday Trayvon #I'm so tired... #ma'khia bryant #sandra bland #eric garner #casey goodson #george floyd #mike brown #breonna taylor

[wakandamama]

Now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, why ain't there 100 bands on Zimmerman's shit? Someone shoulda made him chalk lines day 1 of the acquittal.

Emmet Till, Latasha Harlins, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Ma'Khia Bryant, all the Black children's who names are loss in the Mass amount of them dead. From the babies tossed into swamps by slave master to poor Ralph Yarl who has to suffer for the rest of his life because some evil white bigot who was proably in post card picnic in his youth decided him being lost in his neighborhood was cause enough for a death sentence.

If they feel bold enough to kill innocent Black kids with no justice for the lives loss. Welp, we should be bold enough to correct that shit🤷🏾‍♀️ they obviously only speak violence and it's time we speak they language to get the fucking message across atp.

#rant #im just so exhausted of seeing Black children be fucking hunted at this point #killed with no justice #given no peace in life then mf want to get mad at Black people if we dont beg for their justices #they love the 2nd amendment so much lets give it to them #atp violence is the only thing these monster fucking respond too #blacklivesmatter #Black Children matter #whites AND non-Blacks dni yall opinion will never be needed on this topics #antiblackness

[emelinet]

say their name.

Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Rumain Brisbon. Tanisha Anderson. Bettie Jones. Jason Washington. Robert White. Botham Jean. Ronald Greene. Sterling Higgins. Cameron Lamb. Steven Taylor. George Floyd. Dion Johnson. Keenan Anderson. Keshawn Thomas. Jayland Walker. Christopher Kelley. Donnell Rochester. Jason Walker. Alvin Motley Jr. Ryan Leroux. Latoya Denise James. Winston Smith. Ma'khia Bryant. Jenoah Donald. A'donte Washington.

no justice, no peace.

#say their names #blm #activism #speak out #tamir rice #petition #call to action #lakeith smith #justice #no justice no peace

[andthatshowtomdied]

Children Have Died

Children have died

says the safety label on the carseat

and it’s true

but I pay attention to the news

so I already knew about the

3,360

children who have died

in Gaza over the past three weeks

I already knew about the

20 dead children at Sandy Hook

17 dead children at Parkland

19 dead children at Uvalde

I already knew about the killings of

Trayvon Martin

Tamir Rice

Ma'Khia Bryant

It’s not that I don’t appreciate the warning label

just thinking we should put them also

on the bombs

on the bullets

on the badges

so that people with guns being told

by society and their commanding officers

to points weapons at children

stop choosing to pull the trigger

Or maybe it’s just about the wording

it shouldn’t say

children have died

it should say

children are dying

and we have the power to stop it.

#poem #wrote a poem a while back and wasn't sure what to do with it #it's your problem now

[sighphi]

[jooshthepunished]

Maybe the cops should have let Ma'Khia Bryant stab an unarmed girl ¼ her weight

[rebeleden]

Body camera video released in police shooting of 11-year-old

CC AMERIKKKA

BLACK KKKILLER KKKOPS REIGN

RIP MA'KHIA BRYANT

#Youtube

[mrichie10]

Watch "RED PILLED! Candace Owens CHANGED my mind on George Floyd and Ma'Khia Bryant" on YouTube

#Youtube

[yourbeast247]

The media is LYING to you about George Floyd and Ma'Khia Bryant.

I SEE HER BEING PRESIDENT SOMEDAY

#youtube

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Episode 2: Why don’t police “shoot them in the leg”?

A good example of a naïve notion would be when Joe Biden was running for president, he talked about "maybe the officer could shoot the guy in the leg.”

Joe Biden: “So instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do is shoot to kill is you shoot ‘em in the leg.”

Anybody that has any experience with firearms understands that's a ridiculous notion. But there's probably many Americans who looked at that and thought, "Well, that makes sense. Why didn't he shoot him in the leg?" Then they're going to have misguided opinions about what a particular police officer did or didn't do in a given situation because they don't understand how violence works. Just to give you a brief overview on that: most gunfights, most exchanges with firearms, occur at very close range and most of the shots miss. So a police officer who doesn't even get that much training with his weapon to begin with—it's not like we're dealing with a SEAL Team six member—is looking to hit center mass on the target.

The reason they're shooting is not to kill anybody. They're shooting to stop. They're shooting to stop the threat from other people, like recently happened when that police officer had to shoot the girl who's about to stick the giant steak knife into another child. He shot that girl because he had to stop the threat. If he hadn't shot her, she would have stabbed that young lady.

They're shooting to stop and they're shooting center mass. The idea that in a conflict like that, your adrenaline's going, you pull your firearm and you're going to shoot the gun out of his hand or shoot him in the leg is stupid, number one. Number two, there's big arteries in the leg. So it's just as deadly to shoot somebody in the leg as it is anywhere else. And number three, you can shoot someone in the leg and they can be on the ground, and if they have a weapon on their person, draw their weapon, shoot and kill you, or shoot other people and kill them. You have to stop them and stop them from accessing whatever tool they have on their body at the time so that they don't hurt anyone else. That means in any given situation, officers are going to be shooting to hit the target center mass.

Joe Biden's been around long enough that he should know better. He doesn't. I think he said it out of ignorance. That's fine. Unfortunately, he obviously has a big platform and people might listen to that and think, "Oh, that makes a lot of sense." The more people are educated on violence, how violence works, how these conflicts work, why officers are actually doing what they're doing, the better able they are to vote on public policy.

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"I mean, it seems to me in a situation — this is what it looked to me. And I looked at the tape and still can’t figure it out. Shoot the gun in the air as a warning. Tase a person. Shoot them in the leg. Shoot them in the behind."

-- Joy Behar ("The View"), armchair firearms, gun violence and law enforcement expert

🤡🤡🤡

People really be out there thinking real life is like the special effects on a movie or TV show.

Do I think Ma'Khia Bryant deserved to die? No. But through her own choices and actions, she deserved to be stopped, and in doing what she did, she surrendered her right to safety. By making herself a threat to others, she forfeited the right to not be treated as a threat. She lost the right to expect to be safe from whatever anyone, including police, might do to stop that threat to protect others from her actions.

As Matt said, the point isn't to kill, it's to stop. If the point had been to kill, then the officer didn't do a very good job of it, since a) she didn't die on the spot, and b) the police tried to save her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ma'Khia_Bryant#Incident

Police officers administered CPR until emergency responders arrived. Bryant was transported to Mount Carmel East, where she was pronounced dead at 5:21 pm EDT.

If the point was to kill, not to stop, then they'd aim for the head.

P.S. That last thing with Joe Biden seemed unnecessarily weird.

#Matt Thornton #Tionna Bonner #Ma'Khia Bryant #gun violence #police shooting #center mass #policing #defund the police #religion is a mental illness

[twistedsoulmusic]

So the latest show for the lovely folks at Blue-In-Green:RADIO is here, and it's a jazzy, dubby, ambient-sedated, electronic meandering, stylistically fluctuating affair. Jump in and enjoy.

📻 (www.blueingreenradio.com)

1. Leoni Leoni - Langsam müed 2. Jasmine Myra - Words Left Unspoken 3. Braxton Cook - MB (for Ma'Khia Bryant) 4. Helsinki Headnod Convention - It's All Our Turf 5. Yako Trio - Indian Dream 6. Dan Berkson - The Court (Rework) 7. Rich Ruth - Older But Not Less Confused 8. Emeka Ogboh - Lekki Aiah Freeway 9. Glue Trip - Tempo Presente 10. mejiwahn - lumaby ft. hrlum 11. Carlos Niño & Friends - Dreamsishappening ft. Shabazz Palaces, Jamael Dean and Sharada 12. Carlos Niño & Friends - Actually ft. Deantoni Parks, Jamael Dean and Nate Mercereau 13. Carlos Niño & Friends - Dreamsishappening (Instrumental) ft. Jamael Dean and Sharada 14. Addis Pablo - East of the Blue Nile

#SoundCloud #music #Twistedsoul #Radio #Blue-In-Green:RADIO #New Music #soundcloud

[morrison818]

Almost half of those who died were aged 30-44. Seventeen were aged under 18.

They included Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old girl shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio, after she lunged at another girl with a knife.

[origamihrts]

TW// Child Death!!

#ma'khia bryant #black children #black lives have value #black lives are beautiful #black lives are precious #black lives matter #blm #blm movement

[radicalurbanista]

PC @redguju

4.22.21. Columbus, OH

Community support for Ma'khia Bryant has included her neighbors and broader community members, and Ohio State university students who occupied Ohio Union demanding that the university cut ties to local police.

Police have murdered at least 4 children in the past two weeks.

Anthony Thompson Jr

Petyon Ham

Adam Toledo

Ma'Khia Bryant

#ma'khia bryant #adam toledo #peyton ham #anthony thompson #death tw #child death tw #ask to tag #columbus #chicago #Leonardtown #maryland #knoxville #tennessee #ohio #ohio state #black lives matter #blm #say her name #tweet #4.22.21