After more than 100 days with no police officer held accountable for her death, the ad is clear in its message: “Fire. Arrest. Charge. The police officers who killed her. Today.”
A police squad “deliberately misled” narcotics detectives to target Taylor’s home in an effort to clear out the block , according to documents filed by lawyers for Taylor’s family.
Thousands of researchers, journal publishers and university departments stopped work on June 10 to fight against “anti-black racism in the world of research.”
The ACLU and Movement for Black Lives call for the role of officers moving forward to be “smaller, more circumscribed, and less funded with taxpayer dollars.”
The family of Breonna Taylor, 26, filed a lawsuit claiming Louisville officers forced their way into the victim’s apartment and began “blindly firing.”
The city’s police chief apologized for the shooting death, but the victim’s relatives say the former officer’s arrest is just the beginning of their fight for justice.
