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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
They’re using Breonna Taylor’s death as a jumping off point. Otherwise, why have so many pages been dedicated to her death? It’s almost all dedicated to the racism. Almost no one is talking about merits of the case. It’s only about the racist cops and how they should go to jail.
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Despite someone's previous statement that this was the latest, it unfortunately wasn't.
Both Floyd and Brooks' killings occurred after Taylor's. But with Floyd, charges were laid 4 days later and with Brooks you had officers facing charges 5 days after the shooting. That doesn't bring back their lives, but wheels appear to be moving towards some form of justice...for now.
With Taylor you had six months of investigating and the narrative spun originally, that still resonates with a lot of people, is that she was asleep in her bed and this was the wrong house with the suspect already in custody. It looked like a complete and utter mess if you took that narrative at face-value and those that did can't believe the police weren't charged much earlier (or eventually at all).
Then there's the nuance of it. I've said since the beginning that the only charge there could be was some form of reckless shooting and maybe going after the signing-officer if there was intentional mistakes on it. But otherwise, legally speaking, there wasn't much chance (read: none) of convicting the officers. But when you still believe this was the wrong house and she was just sleeping in her bed, that seems absolutely crazy to get your head around. And then even when you get all the information, it still looks like a travesty of justice that no one will be legally blamed for her killing despite neither her or her boyfriend doing anything legally wrong that night (ignoring that they dropped the search after her killing).
And on top of that it's politicized. Defund the police vs Blue Lives Matter. Hard-stances against criminals vs those who recognize the war on drugs as a failure. Etc. etc. Stupid policies like no-knock warrants with no-body cameras despite having them available.
So I think with Breonna Taylor, politics, misinformation, lack of justice, legal nuances, time taken, media wanting to sell the story, distrust of police and then all of this on top of all the other injustices in the Black community added up to a powder keg.
Oh and you almost certainly have Russian bots fanning the flames on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit to sow discourse that makes it way into threads like this.