releases: https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/beatty-brown-and-wyden-request-investigation-into-events-leading-up-to-the-death-of-ma-khia-bryant
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| https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/beatty-brown-and-wyden-request-investigation-into-events-leading-up-to-the-death-of-ma-khia-bryant | Beatty, Brown, and Wyden Request Investigation Into Events Leading Up to the Death of Ma’Khia Bryant | 2021-06-01 | 2021 | 2021-06 | Democrat | House | OH | Joyce Beatty | B001281 | beatty.house.gov | beatty | https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases | scraper | WASHINGTON, D.C.— U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (OH), and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (OR) are requesting an investigation into the events prior to the tragic death of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant on behalf of her parents Paula Bryant and Myron Hammonds. Before she was tragically shot to death by a police officer responding to a domestic dispute call, Bryant spent two years moving between at least five different foster care homes. State-level data show that Ohio children are placed in the foster care system at a rate 10 percent higher than the national average. Despite research indicating that kinship care is beneficial to children's health, well-being, and cultural identity, the State of Ohio provides far less financial support to a child who is placed with a kinship caregiver than it gives to a child placed in a licensed foster care setting. "The federal government has an obligation to protect the civil rights of all individuals, especially those children, young people, and parents involved in federally-funded child welfare systems," wrote the lawmakers. "When a child dies in foster care, the system has failed." They continued, "It failed Ma'Khia Bryant, who lived in her foster family home for about two months before a police officer shot and killed her in front of that home on April 20, 2021." A copy of the letter is available on Beatty's website. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T19:57:00Z |