{"id":445534,"date":"2021-04-23T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=445534"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:50:55","slug":"makhia-bryant-adultified-because-she-was-a-big-girl-rutgers-professor-says-describes-attempted-stabbing-as-regular-old-everyday-community-confli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/makhia-bryant-adultified-because-she-was-a-big-girl-rutgers-professor-says-describes-attempted-stabbing-as-regular-old-everyday-community-confli\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma\u2019Khia Bryant \u2018Adultified\u2019 Because She Was A \u2018Big Girl,\u2019 Rutgers Professor Says; Describes Attempted Stabbing As \u2018Regular Old Everyday Community Conflict\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmakhia-bryant-adultified-because-she-was-a-big-girl-rutgers-professor-says-describes-attempted-stabbing-as-regular-old-everyday-community-confli%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=445534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3433.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>A Rutgers University associate professor of gender and Africana studies argued Thursday that Ma\u2019Khia Bryant is being \u201cadultified\u201d because she was \u201ca big girl.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Responding to MSNBC host Joy Reid, who suggested that people believe 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant deserved to die, professor Brittney Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2021\/04\/23\/msnbc-guest-says-people-adultified-knife-wielding-makhia-bryant-because-she-was-a-big-girl-1064083\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">said<\/a>, \u201cLook, the arguments for our movement have never been that black people have to be perfect in order for them to deserve dignity, for us to have good policing, for us to be viewed with humanity, for cops to take a breath before they literally get out of the car, guns blazing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis has never what the argument for the movement for black lives has been is that you just get to kill black people, particularly when they\u2019re not being perfect,\u201d she continued. \u201cI think about how perfect\u2026the 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. If that is the standard, then no black person is really truly going to be safe if we cannot be having a bad day, if we cannot defend ourselves if we think we\u2019re gonna get jumped, if we call the cops and they can\u2019t show up and tell who the victim is, and who the perpetrators are, and they can\u2019t use their training to adjudicate regular old everyday community conflict.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut beyond all of that, what are we gonna do about the way we don\u2019t understand black girls as girls? Ma\u2019Khia Bryant was a child\u2026and the way that she has been talked about as this, you know, because she was a big girl, so people just see her as the aggressor, they don\u2019t see her humanity,\u201d Cooper charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey have adultified her. We turn black girls into grown women before they even are able to vote,\u201d she added. \u201cI have watched folks across the political spectrum really defend this and say\u2026and empathize with the officer, say that he didn\u2019t have any other set of choices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat are we training police to do if they are not actually showing up on the scene and making the situation better for all involved?\u201d Cooper continued. \u201cIf you can\u2019t figure out how to deescalate a 16-year-old, even with a kitchen knife, when you\u2019ve got a gun and you\u2019re a grown man, you shouldn\u2019t be a cop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday evening, protests broke out in Columbus, Ohio, after reports of a police shooting in the city. Ben Crump, a lawyer who can frequently be found at the forefront of police shooting cases, rushed to declare that Bryant was \u201cunarmed\u201d when she police shot her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting as [Columbus Police] killed an unarmed 15yo Black girl named Makiyah Bryant. Another child lost! Another hashtag,\u201d Crump tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5119047619048\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbusPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ColumbusPolice<\/a> killed an unarmed 15yo Black girl named Makiyah Bryant. Another child lost! Another hashtag. \u270a\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JusticeForMakiyahBryant?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JusticeForMakiyahBryant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ssR5gfqm5\">https:\/\/t.co\/9ssR5gfqm5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttorneyCrump\/status\/1384667861642358785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to video footage obtained shortly after the event, however, Bryant appeared to be holding a knife and was about to stab another teenage girl before a police officer intervened.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6842105263158\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WARNING, GRAPHIC: Columbus Police show body cam footage of officer shooting, killing knife-wielding teen girl \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/627TrzbD9n\">https:\/\/t.co\/627TrzbD9n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bW6wgWlFsb\">pic.twitter.com\/bW6wgWlFsb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1384721705004933122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rutgers University associate professor of gender and Africana studies argued Thursday that Ma\u2019Khia Bryant is being \u201cadultified\u201d because she was \u201ca big girl.\u201dResponding to MSNBC host Joy Reid, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276548,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3433.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Ma\u2019Khia Bryant \u2018Adultified\u2019 Because She Was A \u2018Big Girl,\u2019 Rutgers Professor Says; Describes Attempted Stabbing As \u2018Regular Old Everyday Community Conflict\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3433.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Ma\u2019Khia Bryant \u2018Adultified\u2019 Because She Was A \u2018Big Girl,\u2019 Rutgers Professor Says; Describes Attempted Stabbing As \u2018Regular Old Everyday Community Conflict\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}