Content Warning: this email discusses police brutality
In March, police officers burst into Breonna’s apartment in Louisville, Kentucky on a no-knock warrant, looking for someone else, and shot her eight times. Another Black woman killed by police.
Today, the edges of this most recent shard of injustice are especially sharp.
The Grand Jury in Kentucky brought no charges against the police officers for murdering Breonna Taylor — the only charges brought today were against Brett Hankison for shooting a wall.
I am gutted. I am heartbroken. Breonna, you saved lives, and yet, yours was brutally taken. I am not resigned to this outcome, I am resolved. We won’t rest. This isn’t over.
We must fight back against this flagrant lack of justice or accountability by supporting the organizers and protestors on the ground in Louisville, Kentucky. Being a part of the progressive movement means showing up for our brothers, sisters, and siblings, who are organizing against injustice.
Since our country’s inception, Black and Brown bodies have been profiled, surveilled, policed, lynched, choked, brutalized and murdered at the hands of police officers. The system isn’t broken — the violence and cruelty were intended. It is past time to dismantle this system of criminal injustice.
One of the most meaningful ways you can take action right now is by supporting the protestors and organizers in Louisville who are demanding that their voices be heard and calling for real accountability. If you can afford to, please support these freedom fighters today by chipping in any amount.
In solidarity,
Ayanna Pressley
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