“That broke me.” The grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case has been a painful gut punch to protesters. Many of them were tear gassed by police, arrested, threatened online, shot with pepper bullets. Some also lost jobs, friends and homes.
ame down to charge one officer with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing wildly into the apartment building. But the charges were for endangering Taylor’s neighbors. No one was charged in connection with Taylor’s death.not seen since the start of summer, along with a rising sense of doom and despair.
“Breonna got featured on covers of magazines, she got TV specials, she got streets named after her,” he said. “But she didn’t get justice. All these things seem nice, but it’s nothing compared to justice.” The Taylor case “is a watershed moment for the Black Lives Matter movement,” said Alvin Tillery Jr., an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University. “The activists are going to have to supplement their disruptive protests with political organizing and voting if they are going to change the environment in Kentucky.”
“It’s reiterating to me that my life does not matter, that I’m unsafe,” said Millicent Cahoon, a therapist who started a counseling network for the movement. “You get tired of fighting after a while,” she said. “We want to make sure hope stays alive, so we can keep going.” Lines of officers in riot gear descended on the square, and a loudspeaker ordered everyone to disperse, threatening to use chemical agents if they stayed.She and Woolfolk both cried themselves to sleep, and cried again when they awakened the next morning.
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