The foster care system is failing Black children and the death of Ma'Khia Bryant is one example, experts and attorney say

Ma'Khia Bryant was charging at two young women with a knife, police body camera video footage shows, when an officer arrived and fatally shot her outside the foster home she had been living in for about two months.

Ma'Khia's foster mother Angela Moore, who wasn't home at the time, said the dispute stemmed from an argument over a messy house and an unmade bed between Ma'Khia and some of Moore's former foster children who had come to the house to throw Moore a birthday party. At least two of the women involved in the altercation were adults ages 20 and 22, according to a police report. While there are still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the April 20 incident and the investigation is ongoing, one thing is clear: 16-year-old Ma'Khia died while under the care of a system that was created to provide safe, temporary homes for children whose biological parents are unable to raise them.