LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Some of them raised their fists and called out “Black lives matter!” Others tended to the letters, flowers and signs grouped together in a square in downtown Louisville.
All of them said her name: Breonna Taylor.People dismayed that the officers who shot the Black woman in her apartment during a drug raid last March wouldn’t be charged with her death vowed to persist in their fight for justice.
The big question for a town torn apart by Taylor’s death and the larger issue of racism in America was how to move forward.Many turned to the streets — as they did in several U.S.
cities — to call for reforms to combat racist policing.“We’ve got to take it lying down that the law won’t protect us, that they can get away with killing.