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On April 20, 2021, Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old girl, [2] was fatally shot by police officer Nicholas Reardon in southeast Columbus, Ohio. [3] Released body camera and security camera footage show Bryant brandishing a knife and charging two women consecutively, leading up to the moment Officer Reardon fired four shots; Bryant was struck at least once.
On June 24, 1969, Vivian Strong, a 14-year-old Black American girl, was killed in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, when a white police officer shot her in the back of the head without warning. The white police officer, and his Black partner, had been dispatched to the location because there were "juveniles breaking in." When they arrived at the ...
Ee Lee (c. 1984 – September 19, 2020) was an American woman who was raped and murdered by two black teenagers in a racially-motivated [3] daylight attack in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The two perpetrators, Kamare Lewis and Kevin Spencer, pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide and second-degree sexual assault in 2023. Later that year ...
Hazel Bryant reacts after her niece, 15-year-old Makiyah Bryant, was fatally shot by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse (Gaelen Morse / reuters)
At about 10 p.m. on Oct. 15, a black Chevy Equinox pulled up to a ranch house in the southern New Jersey city of Bridgeton. A group of men in ski masks hopped out and headed for the front door. A ...
In 1982, when Latasha was six years old, her father took a job in a steel foundry while her mother worked as a waitress in a local tavern. [7] [8] Acoff Sr. was known to be abusive towards Crystal, attacking and beating her in front of Latasha and her younger siblings. [7] [9] Their unstable marriage ended in 1983. On November 27, 1985, Crystal ...
One post-holiday party in Signal Hill, Calif. ended in tragedy on Saturday, Dec. 28. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shared a statement about the incident which left a 17-year-old girl ...
Carey's name and story has also been featured in the Say Her Name publication "Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women". [37] Carey has been mentioned by critics of the Black Lives Matter movement as an example of the perceived lack of intersectionality within the movement, citing the lack of coverage and continued discussion of her death.