EMT worker, Breonna Taylor, has yet to get justice after being fatally shot in her sleep. Months, weeks, hours, and days continue to go by without true progress concerning her death. It seems her name is being mentioned less and less as the days go on. Her name has stopped trending in the press. It’s stopped trending on social media. It was barely ever trending in the news.
This 26-year-old life saver was sound asleep in her bed at her own residence when officers Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly entered her home on a “no-knock warrant” attempting to bust her ex-boyfriend with drugs.
After the shooting, her current boyfriend was taken into custody after opening fire and striking an officer, unknowingly, with intent to protect. He was later released after having a valid concealed carry license.
As time continues to pass, we,as a community, are saddened. It hurts to see our people killed by law enforcement. It hurts to see them not receive justice. It hurts to know there is no way for blacks to be safe when the police are involved. The same people who are supposed to save our lives, are killing us.
The kill us on the street; at the stores; in our cars; in jail; on the sidewalks; on the highways; and even in our homes; in our beds.
A routine traffic stop makes our heart beat like crazy. We automatically feel the need to put our hands up. We feel like criminals just by the color of our skin.
As parents, we live in fear that our teenage boys and girls and men and women of any age will be harassed by an officer. We pray deeply for our black men and women. We don’t know what else to do.
It’s heartbreaking. It hurts. It brings tears to our eyes. We just want justice. We just want peace. We don’t want to be a target. We don’t want to die and go unnoticed.
Just arrest the police. Arrest the police. Arrest the police.
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