Movement builds to #FreeBresha as teen endures jail for killing abusive father

Bresha Meadows, 15, is being held in juvenile detention for fatally shooting her father while he slept. But her family claims Meadows acted to protect them from decades of abuse.

Meadows’s mother called her daughter a “hero” for defending the family, and her aunt also came to her defense, telling the Washington Free Beacon, “They’ve all been through it, and nobody in that county would help that we called, would do anything. She told on him, and nobody would do anything. She did what [she was] supposed to do, and nobody helped her.”

On Friday, an online campaign saw hundreds of tweets and posts with the #FreeBresha hashtag, as supporters shared petitions demanding that Meadows be released from a juvenile detention center in Ohio.