And they’re all like Breonna Taylor. Which is an interesting hot take, since Taylor had a long relationship with a big time drug dealer with plenty of violence in his background and Breonna was the one who was handling all the drug money
No one sets out to be a Black Lives Matter martyr. But somewhere along the way last year, as masked marchers from Louisville to Las Vegas chanted her name, Breonna Taylor became a symbol of change.
Using a criminal as your martyr is probably not the best, eh?
Taylor’s fate was sealed in the wee hours of March 13, 2020, when three Louisville Metro Police officers burst into the 26-year-old’s apartment on a no-knock warrant, firing 32 bullet rounds and killing the emergency room technician as she stood in her hallway with her boyfriend, who survived.
Now her death is bringing new life to the stories of other Black women who have died at the hands of police or in police custody, those whose names and identities have largely gone unknown and unacknowledged.
While the names of too many Black men and boys killed by police – Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice – are widely known, Black women’s cases have rarely garnered national attention.
Probably because there aren’t that many. And a lot of the men were criminals attacking the police
There’s not a lot of data on the police-involved deaths of Black women; no national registry exists. But The Washington Post has noted nearly 250 women, including 48 Black women, have been shot and killed by police since the newspaper began tracking police-involved shootings in 2015.
So, according to the article the headline is 100% a lie. 48 in 6 years is rather below the threshold of one a day, right? And nowhere in the rest of the screed, which is less an article and more a propping up of the #SayHerName movement, along with the normal hatred for police, is the headline backed up. 48 in 6 years is not many. And, most of them were involved in criminal activity and/or attacking police officers. This is the height of journalistic malpractice.
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