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MarineCombatEngineer

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Reply to Treefrog (Reply #26)

Sun May 9, 2021, 10:31 AM

May 2021

a bunch of keyboard kommandos.

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Ma'Khia Bryant's Journey Through Foster Care Ended With an Officer's Bullet [View all] WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 OP

Our system is broken. sheshe2 May 2021 #1

If we want to give more money to social services in an effort to reduce police involvement, WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #13

so horrible Kali May 2021 #2

He saved the other girl's life, and you call him a chicken shit? Treefrog May 2021 #8

seems concerned citizens are capable of doing so, would I? Kali May 2021 #64

You have no fucking idea of how dangerous it is to tackle someone with a knife. MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #15

Thank YOU! Treefrog May 2021 #26

Yep, MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #27

It's funny that I have a picture of them in my mind when I see one of those posts. Treefrog May 2021 #32

Perfect description. MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #44

Oh come on! BGBD May 2021 #35

LOL. MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #43

Funny how police - and teachers and social workers and nurses manage to do it all the time StarfishSaver May 2021 #45

You really think this officer had the time to charge the girl, MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #47

I don't know and neither do you StarfishSaver May 2021 #51

We'll just have to agree to disagree, MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #53

Your argument about it being foolhardy to engage someone with a knife as an excuse for this shooting StarfishSaver May 2021 #63

I hadn't seen the distance until you mentioned it, so I don't know all the facts Kali May 2021 #65

A Taser would not have worked in this split-second action, the cop saved the girl in pink's life Celerity May 2021 #16

... MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #18

I saw that Lemon show. Very well explained. Treefrog May 2021 #33

maybe not, we likely won't ever know that Kali May 2021 #66

This is heartbreaking StarfishSaver May 2021 #3

Fuck that girl in pink, right? NickB79 May 2021 #5

"..and countless people who should have more empathy" EX500rider May 2021 #46

Calling this teenaged girl "a large adolescent" StarfishSaver May 2021 #48

"Calling this teenaged girl "a large adolescent"" EX500rider May 2021 #50

"She was a large adolescent." WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #49

They're not even pretending anymore StarfishSaver May 2021 #52

They don't feel they have to. Shameful. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #54

Do tell us what is shameful about telling the truth? MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #55

"Childhood ends at 12"? Only for Black kids. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #56

"Ma'Khia Bryant was a child" StarfishSaver May 2021 #58

As young as FIVE. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #60

That's not what I said, MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #61

Service agencies should have helped the grandmother. raging moderate May 2021 #4

Per the article, foster parents are expected to have full time jobs. LisaL May 2021 #7

Exactly. That's where things really went off the rails. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #14

So please don't slam me after my first paragraph. But read the second. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #6

I hear you and appreciate and agree with most of what you said in this very sensitive post StarfishSaver May 2021 #9

re: "It was not the cop who failed that girl. It was America." discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2021 #17

+100. nt MarineCombatEngineer May 2021 #19

This article is not about a cop shooting and killing Ma'Khia. It's about how the system kept WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #10

Whatever happened to the girl/woman ChazII May 2021 #11

Tionna Bonner, the adult who had originally pulled a knife on Ma'Khia and her sister? WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #12

Thank you. Somehow I missed getting her ChazII May 2021 #20

It's because msm wasn't naming her, especially considering she is getting death threats. LisaL May 2021 #21

I read two articles which gives her name and age ChazII May 2021 #22

Any BGBD May 2021 #23

What proof to you have of anything that happened not on the video other than what someone said? StarfishSaver May 2021 #24

A witness BGBD May 2021 #25

OK. Right StarfishSaver May 2021 #28

She also BGBD May 2021 #34

You have no idea who has and hasn't "backed up" any stories since you are not involved in the StarfishSaver May 2021 #38

No stories BGBD May 2021 #40

Ma'Khia isn't the one who called 911. It was her younger sister. LisaL May 2021 #36

OK. Not Ma'Khia. A witness. StarfishSaver May 2021 #39

No BGBD May 2021 #41

Again, this article is not about a cop shooting and killing Ma'Khia. It's about how the system kept WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #29

I hear you StarfishSaver May 2021 #30

It's true -- and tbh this was more at posters who are obsessed with knife angles, "witnesses" WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #31

I really appreciate you posting this OP. It is very thought-provoking StarfishSaver May 2021 #37

. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #42

sorry Kali May 2021 #67

No apology necessary -- someday I'll learn you can't put rules on a GD thread. ;) WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #68

My niece is 12 years old and 6 feet already. Incredibly tall parents. I'm the shorty in the family. Solly Mack May 2021 #57

I am glad for the community your niece has, and I am sorry that even that is not always enough. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #59

It is a bone-deep paralyzing fear. Knowing you can't protect them from racism. Solly Mack May 2021 #62