Despite bodycam footage to the contrary, Benjamin Crump's tweet claiming Ma’Khia Bryant was 'unarmed' is still up

Despite bodycam footage clearly showing Ma’Khia Bryant was armed with a knife and attacking two other girls, attorney Benjamin Crump has yet to delete this tweet claiming a Columbus, Ohio police officer “killed an unarmed 15yo Black girl” on Tuesday:

As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting as @ColumbusPolice killed an unarmed 15yo Black girl named Makiyah Bryant. Another child lost! Another hashtag. ✊???#JusticeForMakiyahBryant https://t.co/9ssR5gfqm5

— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) April 21, 2021

“Unarmed,” he says:

"Unarmed" https://t.co/3f7ACk19Xh pic.twitter.com/Hfa96ZtYVz

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 21, 2021

We all saw it!

I didn't know wielding a knife and trying to stab two people was "unarmed!"

It's like you profit when people of different races hate each other and there's unrest in the streets. https://t.co/a3rY8VTxxm

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 21, 2021

And where’s that little Twitter warning when you need it?

I wonder if Twitter will flag this as disinformation, given that it's provably false and it stokes existing tensions.

It could be the cop is guilty of her death, but she wasn't unarmed. She was attacking someone with a knife, by all appearances. https://t.co/eInQoDiyc9

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) April 21, 2021

The NYT quoted from Crump as well:

What the tweet says & what The NY Times publishes. https://t.co/EN0rZ9AWNG pic.twitter.com/vdH7gSYiKY

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 21, 2021

But notice how they edited out the part where Crump called her “unarmed”? What hacks:

So the New York Times just edited out part of tweet they didn't like. https://t.co/HL7UPRNXTf

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 21, 2021

Good luck with that:

Would love an explanation on how this is ethical in any form whatsoever.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 21, 2021

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Editor’s note: We’ve changed the spelling of Ma’Khia Bryant’s first name from “Makiyah” in our headline and post to align with the correct spelling as reported by the media at large.