…Hazel Bryant told The Dispatch that she is the aunt of the 15-year-old girl who was shot. The girl lived in a foster home there on Legion Lane and got into an altercation with someone else at the home, she said.
Bryant said her niece had a knife, but maintained that the girl dropped the knife before she was shot multiple times by a police officer.
Protesters with Black Lives Matter signs, megaphones and a loudspeaker joined the crowd gathered behind crime scene tape about a half-block away from the shooting scene.
“We don’t get to celebrate nothing,” K.C. Taynor said through a megaphone of the Chauvin verdict. “…In the end, you know what, you can’t be Black.”
Kiar Yakita of the Black Liberation Movement, said she is not surprised that another police shooting happened. “Why did they kill this baby?” she asked aloud.
Hana Abdur-Rahim, with the Black Abolitionists Collective, said, “We are in a literal genocide. We are fighting for our lives.”
The crowd on Legion Lane is growing (language warning). This is a very raw scene. Many are screaming and crying. pic.twitter.com/IaakFXs6NV
— Lacey Crisp (@LaceyCrisp) April 20, 2021
Democrat Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for being killed pic.twitter.com/2r2e2Ffz9Z
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 20, 2021
Meanwhile in NYC reconciliation reigns…
the protest turns it’s sights on sidewalk diners as the crowd chants, “get the fuck out of new york, we don’t want you here.” they then make references to it being owned by white people and gentrifiers.#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #ChauvinTrial #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/y3bxgKNaRe
— eric thomas (@justericthomas) April 21, 2021
