Ma’Khia Bryant

Neighbor Ira Graham III said that he had just come home from work when he heard shots and ran outside to see a teen girl on the ground badly wounded. It was disorienting coming so close to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, he said. “It’s just so ironic,” he said. “This stuff just never ends.” Body-camera footage shows a White officer emerge from a vehicle as the victim appears to chase someone, who falls onto the sidewalk. The teen then turns toward someone else wearing a pink sweatsuit and takes a swing at her head. The officer fires four shots at the girl, leaving her sprawled next to a car in the driveway. “She had a knife. She just ran at her,” one officer says on the footage. One neighbor says, “He shot her four times.” The victim’s aunt said the victim had a knife but dropped it before the officer shot her… One police officer on the scene was wearing a “blue lives matter” face mask.