Hey everybody. I'm here with our executive producer of Erlin Williams and we're dropping into the feed ahead of Sunday show to share something special with you.

This past weekend as we were preparing for the show the New York Times published a deep dive into the life of

Makaya Bryant. And Makaya, as you may remember, was shot and killed by police

officers in Columbus, Ohio at almost the exact same moment that a jury declared

Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis.

She was 16 years old and the time story was one of the first

detailed reports that at least I've seen about her life and Verilyan I think it just to me it just said so much about the violence that came way ahead of her death, you know?

What stood out for you?

That for sure, particularly the moment where her mother lost

custody of her and she went to live with her grandmother and she so desperately wanted to be with her

grandmother. Her grandmother really fought to have her and her siblings and

there were other children in the house so she had to literally let her go into foster care because her

landlord wouldn't allow that many children to live in the house because we have a

system that would pay out a stranger versus your own family member to raise you.

And just to clarify those details, you know,

Macaya and her three sisters were removed

from her mom's home for neglect. when her grandmother took her in the state

doesn't pay they pay foster homes way more money and so she couldn't afford it and then

the landlord when they found out that she had brought four kids into the

apartment evicted her and so that is how Makaya and her sisters ended up in

foster care. And the system that we have that's not based on real people, just continually doesn't

see black girls, black children as children.

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