VIDEO THREAD: Black Lives Matter activists protested for Ma'Khia Bryant this afternoon outside the Minnesota Governor's mansion in St. Paul.
"Say her name! Ma'Khia Bryant! Say her name! Ma'Khia Bryant!"
#makhiabryant
In addition to policing, speakers focused on the foster care system, which they say can be "genocide" for children.
"A Black child is 42% more likely to die in foster care after they have been removed to so called 'safety and protective custody' just as Ma'Khia Bryant was."
Activists compared police shooting of Ma'Khia Bryan to Kyle Rittenhouse, who left Kenosha unharmed before turning himself in.
"I don't wanna hear about 'this girl had a knife.' She was defending herself. Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't defending himself. He wasn't defending anything."
"You should not be a cop if you cannot break up a fight between teenage girls," one said to cheers. "This cop came to a knife fight with a gun."
She added that as a foster child, she and her sister "pulled knives on eachother."
She fears what could have happened if cops came.
Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jerrell Perry (G) describes an evolution in his political thinking.
He says that like scientists solved COVID-19 in less than a year, public safety should be solvable without cops.
He promises to disband Minneapolis PD within two years if elected.
Here is my full @N2Sreports video of today's march/rally for Ma'Khia Bryant this afternoon outside the Minnesota Governor's mansion in St. Paul.
As always, all footage is available for license.
Uncut livestream here as well:
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