#breona Taylor

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[queenvlion]

[yournewdadxxx]

Today would be an excellent day to arrest and charge the people who murdered Breonna Taylor.

[arizona-mary-jo]

Say Her Name, Breonna Taylor: Protests that inspired a community

Walking around Louisville Ky, you could see her everywhere. Everyone knew the name Breonna Taylor there. I would often go to the extreme skatepark nearly everyday in 2020. Wanted posted of police officers would be pasted on the outside, faces I’ve come to know very well to where I can describe them with my eyes closed. Murals and political statements where everywhere you gave attention to them. A community of artists coming together, and of people who heard this story and felt the pain all will never forget her name. Protests began middle of May 2020 after news of what had happened became more well-known and spread like wildfire. People who could have come from anywhere all came together and gathered in places such as in front of Louisville’s town hall and posted in front of the LMPD station to chant out her name. “Say her name, Breonna Taylor” and “No justice no peace, prosecute the police” are two of the most famous lines I remember shouting with hundreds of others. A community formed after it came out in the local newspaper 2 months after, that Breonna Taylor suffered a tragic murder at the hands of the Louisville Metro Police Department.

Breonna Taylor born June 5th, 1993, in Grand Rapids Michigan, served others as an EMT and showed great pride in taking care of others who needed it. Well respected in her line of work and loved by all her family. She lived to be the age of 26. It didn’t take much but a rumor and one lie to set the events in motion that made her time short. On March 13th, 2020, at 12:43am, LMPD preformed a no-knock warrant on the home address of Breonna Taylor seeking an individual involved with the mass sell of narcotics. The suspect lived 10 miles away and had only briefly dated Breonna Taylor in the past, as stated in a New York Times video from December 28th, 2020, How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor. At the time of the raid, the suspect had been long out of her life and was also already arrested. Due to poor communication and negligence, Officers and former detectives Jaynes, Goodlett and Meany had knowingly submitted an affidavit containing falsified information stating “that an officer had witnessed the suspect going to the home and leaving with a package believed to have narcotics” and other false information that they “questioned the local post office to confirm he packages going to the home of Breonna Taylor” which was later proven to be false by the postal office in question.

The night of the raid, 7 officers went to the home of Breonna Taylor, and banged on their front door. In a CBS interview, the then current boyfriend of Breonna Taylor who was at the home at the time of the raid, states Breonna was falling asleep while watching and movie and sprung up from bed after hearing the banging and followed it up by yelling “who’s there!” over and over with no answer being heard. Boyfriend Kenneth Walker grabbed his gun to protect himself from what he believed to be a dangerous intruder. After the door had been busted down, Walker aimed low to fire a shot, and was met with a barrage of 32 rounds riddled in theirs and neighboring apartments, 6 making contact with Breonna Taylor. After dust had settled, Walker had called 911 while holding Breonna, stating that “someone broke in and shot his girlfriend”, this showing he did not know they were the police as he would have not called the police on them. Some moments after the call, he heard voices outside believing it to be EMT and police to help his girlfriend, but was soon face to face with shouting police, dogs, and guns pointed at him. He was aggressively arrested, and met with coldness from the police, showing no concern for Breonna’s condition as EMTs did not arrive until 30 minutes after the start of the raid. From this aggression for only a few moments later having officers tell him there was a miscommunication and letting him roam without handcuffs around the police station. Later neighbors acting as witnesses to the raid claimed the police never announced themselves as law enforcement before the barrage to bullets. Days after the raid was when Walker found out about Breonna passing by hearing it on the news, leaving her nameless. The police department tried to convict Walker of attempted murder to a police officer, later dismissed. December 28th, 2020, it was announced that the officers would not be charged for the murder of Breonna Taylor.

Uproars of protesters gathered every day in many different locations to exercise their right to peacefully assemble, as shown by large protester picket signs written with the amendment to peaceably assemble. This sparked the entire community to wake up and take notice, leading people to learn more about all the people who have suffered the same fate. Posters of numerous different people who all suffered like Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. This was important to my community and my life as it has shown me so many more people just like me and my community the truth about roles is systemic oppression. People forming groups to create buttons and posters of so many people who suffered to be spread to protesters in the community. Organizations and lawyers providing food and drinks for people protesting in solidarity and supported by BLM. The fight will continue, shown it started long ago.

After 874 days of waiting for women of color to finally see justice, Goodlett had publicly come out and admitted to conspiring with Jaynes about falsifying documents and misleading the state and federal police on the case of Breonna Taylor. All 3 officers are to be charged with conspiracy and officer Hankinson charged with endangering the lives of the neighboring apartments. Only the start of the justice the community still seeks.

Works Cited

·      O’Donell, L., “Kenneth Waler remembers Breonna Taylor as his ‘best friend’” on CBS This Morning. 13th October 2020.

/https://www.cbsnews.com/video/kenneth-walker-remembers-breonna-taylor-as-his-best-friend/

·      O’Donell, L., “Breonna Taylors boyfriend Kenneth Walker details the night of her death in an exclusive interview” on CBS This Morning YouTube Channel. 14th October 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOEOKc_q4e8&t=5s

·      New York Times “How the police killed Breonna Taylor” on New York Times YouTube 28th December 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDaNU7yDnsc&t=9s

·      Becket, S., Legare, R., “Justice Department charges 4 Louisville police officers connected to Breonna Taylor killing” on CBS news website.

https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/breonna-taylor-4-louisville-police-officers-charged-justice-department/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

·      McAllister, S., WHAS11 Focus Team, “Timeline: what we know the night Breonna Taylor Died” on WHAS11 YouTube 4th August 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-lmunO6Om8&t=3s

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The LMPD was implicated of deliberately destroying and concealing 738,000 records of sexual abuse of youth in the department’s program for aspiring police officers and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/doj-investigation-into-breona-taylor-death-finds-widespread-rights-abuses-by-dept-that-murdered-her

[getinvolvedyoulivehere]

In a press release, the DoJ writes that the LMPD and Louisville Metro knowingly engaged “in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law," and that's the tip of the iceberg. Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/doj-investigation-into-breona-taylor-death-finds-widespread-rights-abuses-by-dept-that-murdered-her

[rebeleden]

KKKILLER KKKOPS REIGN

CC RABID MISOGYNOIR AND BLACK FEMICIDE

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[surviving-ardor-thriving]

I haven’t said this recently, but BLM. black lives matter until all lives matter. Rip to George Floyd, Breona Taylor, and many others.

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[queenvlion]

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[leewhitaker]

June 1, 2020. a few shots from yesterday’s protest in downtown Manhattan captured by my dear friend Malik Chatman, an NYC based photographer. support Black artists today and every day! © instagram and portfolio. 

[safe to reblog, faces are blurred to protect protester identities. do not remove credit.]

[safari-black]

REAT EASY YOUNG QUEEN : Breona Taylor

[whiskeydown]

An Open Letter To The Person Sitting In Your Car Watching Us March

Hello. You may have seen me standing in front of your Honda Civic as you blared your horn. I stood in front of your car and didn’t move. I’d like to take a minute, well maybe a few minutes, and let you know why.

I marched yesterday. At first I gathered with a large group at Bushnell park to chant and to pray, but I knew in my heart that that wasn’t it. Then we marched on the first building, and the second, and still I knew I hadn’t found it, I had not found what I had come to this place seeking. Then a man spoke up. I had drawn myself to the front of the crowd so I was close enough to hear him when he said, quietly at first, and then into the megaphone, that we had the numbers. We had the people we needed to march down Main Street and bring the city to a halt. And that was it, that was what I’d needed. I needed to be disruptive.

I found my way to the head of the crowd for this one. I wanted to be there first, on the frontline, watching as people sat in their cars, frozen at green lights, annoyed. Annoyed for the first ten minutes because we wouldn’t move, because you had places to be, you needed to get to work or to the grocery store. Angry after twenty minutes because now you might even be late to work, now your plans are being ruined. I wanted to see you furious after thirty minutes, because now this is ridiculous, it’s gone too far. Now you are late to work, now you’re being punished for this, it’s not like you hurt anybody, you didn’t kill anyone, why can’t you just be on your way? Now you’re laying on your horn because why won’t we just MOVE already.

I needed that. I needed you to feel after thirty minutes what we felt watching another unarmed black man get killed by police. Year after year, time after time, watching Eric Garner, watching Walter Scott, watching Freddie Gray, watching Sandra Bland, watching Breonna Taylor, watching Goerge Floyd. I needed you to feel outraged, to feel disrupted because you can’t just go to work, can’t head home, can’t go on with your life without this rearing up and stopping you dead in their tracks. I needed you to get it, even if it was just for half an hour. To understand that to be black in America today is to be frozen at a green light, knowing there’s no legitimate reason you shouldn’t be able to move forward but here you are, stuck, screaming at the barriers in your path to just MOVE already.

I get it. I’m stuck too, just like you are. But I think I have a plan to get us unstuck. Talk has already begun about what comes next, the steps we have to take. Steps like putting an end to sovereign immunity, creating citizen panels to police the police, voting. The powers that be aren’t ready to hear those steps, not yet, but soon they will be. For now, the disruptions have to continue. Not just at Main Street in Hartford on a Saturday afternoon, but at the precinct. At city halls and town halls across the nation. If you’re gonna be in your car, find a row of cars and park somewhere. Block traffic. Stop people from going to work. Interrupt people’s lives and routines, make them sit there and bear witness the same way you had to, the same way I have to. There will be marches and protests and voices that will demand to be heard, and at times these will turn violent, I know. Sometimes I want to be violent too. But if you don’t want us to burn everything down then join in and help us shut everything down.  Help us make them MOVE. You’ll have your chance the next time you see me. I’ll be the one standing in traffic.

Sincerely,

A Young Man Who’s Had Enough and Needs Your Help

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