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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

While the world waited in anticipation for the final verdict in the Derek Chauvin

trial on Tuesday, 16-year-old Mackiah Bryant was shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio.

Hours later, the body cam footage was released and appears to show that the officer delivered

the fatal blow, moments before

Bryant, who was holding a knife, could do the same to another young woman. Do those circumstances

alter the tragedy of Bryant losing her life at such a young age? Absolutely not. But they do give it

context, and that context is important for understanding what really

happened and how we should respond. You see, even the few hours between when the news of

Bryant's death was first reported, and when the footage was released, were enough for many to form

and voice very strong opinions about the heartbreaking event.

And for many, those opinions were not greatly changed by the video.

NBA star LeBron James, for example, was among the most prominent and controversial voices to weigh in.

On Wednesday, he tweeted and then quickly deleted a picture of a Columbus police officer

with the caption, You're Next, hashtag accountability. He later explained that he removed the tweet

because people used it to create more hate, and that anger does not do any of us any good, and that includes myself. Gathering all the facts

and educating does, though. My anger is still here for what happened that little girl, my sympathy

for her family, and may justice prevail. As the protests over Bryant's death in the days since

demonstrate, many share LeBron's anger and frustration.

And while we can debate the degree to which those emotions are warranted and well-placed in this instance,

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