On March 13, 2020 Breonna Taylor was murdered in her sleep by 3 Louisville police officers illegally
executing a drug raid at the wrong address for a person they had already arrested earlier that day.
On September 23, 2020 a Kentucky grand jury refused to charge any of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor with murder or manslaughter.
Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron has refused to release the grand jury transcripts related to the case despite growing public calls to do so.
Meanwhile, State Representative Attica Scott (who wrote
"Breonna's Law," a bill seeking to end no-knock warrants across the state) has been charged with a rioting felony for
participating peacefully in a protest.
Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old emergency room technician who planned to eventually become a nurse.
According to articles that quote Breonna Taylor’s friends and family, she really loved singing, cooking, and spending time with loved ones.
You can read more about Breonna's life via this public, online
eulogy
and this
obituary via which you can also send flowers to Breonna Taylor's family.
Since March 13, only one of Breonna Taylor’s murderers has been fired from LMPD. The other two are still working as police officers.
None of her murderers have been arrested or otherwise meaningfully held accountable.
Arresting the men who murdered Breonna Taylor should have been an immediate response. But arresting those officers won’t serve justice.
The white supremacist systems of policing that have weaponized and empowered police to murder Black folks throughout American history have to be entirely abolished and rebuilt in a way that centers nonviolent emergency response, mental healthcare, housing crisis prevention/support, community building, education, and restorative justice.