
MSNBC guest suggests Ma'Khia Bryant was shot for 'not being perfect,' having a 'bad day'
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MSNBC host Joy Reid led a panel discussion Thursday during which one guest argued that the imperfections of Ma'Khia Bryant did not justify her fatal shooting by a Columbus, Ohio police officer, despite the fact that the 16-year-old was attacking another Black teen.
During the segment, Rutgers University Associate Professor Brittany Cooper said that the Black Lives Matter movement never argued that Black people "need to be perfect in order for them to deserve dignity" and "good policing." "This was never the argument for the movement of Black lives ... that you just get to kill Black people, particularly when they're not being perfect," Cooper told Reid. "I think about how perfect ... the prosecution had to be in order to get the conviction for George Floyd. It had to be impeccable, they had to leave no stone unturned.More Related News