DEAR BREONNA TAYLOR, I don't even know where to begin. I am outraged, like so many people are outraged, undoubtedly more folks than you might ever have imagined, that our democracy has failed you. Three cops barged into your apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, with a no-knock warrant and murdered you in cold blood. They didn't even identify themselves as police, and to compound the tragedy, they had the wrong person and the wrong house. Yet the police officer who killed you was neither arrested nor charged, and the lone cop who was indicted was charged only with wanton endangerment of your white neighbor. Your valiant boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired on the invaders, but he couldn't save you. And while the city pledged to pay your family $12 million and implement changes to prevent future deaths by cops, your killer remains free and justice is denied.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 99-100
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