Justice for Breonna Taylor
On the early morning of March 13th, 2020, Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in her apartment. Unknown to them around 12:40am, three police officers would issue a no knock warrant at this residence for possible selling of drugs. The warrant failed to mention the targets of this raid, and only Breonna’s name appeared in the warrant.
The officers used a battering ram to force the apartment door open, and thinking that there was a possible break-in, Walker fired a single shot upon the officers. Police then returned fire and fired more than 20 rounds into the apartment. Six of those rounds entered Breonna Taylor, and she then died in the hallway of her apartment. The other rounds struck Taylor’s apartment and a neighboring apartment.
It wasn’t until three months later on June 23rd, 2020 that the main officer involved, Brett Hankison, was fired by the police department, with the other two officers on administrative leave. On September 23rd, 2020, a Grand Jury charged Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing upon the neighboring apartment, where a family of three lived. No charges against him or the other two officers were brought upon for Breonna Taylor’s death.
Before the unjustified death of Breonna, she was an ER technician working at two local hospitals and was a registered EMT. She had planned on working her two jobs until she obtained enough money to return to school and become a nurse. She wanted to buy a house, marry her boyfriend, and start a family. She loved her family and was always organizing events like BBQs and loved to eat spicy food.
Breonna Taylor was a hard-working young woman with dreams to help others has a nurse and start a family. But her life was taken away by the wrongful actions of the Louisville Metro Police Department. No justice has been served for her wrongful death and those three officers walk free. Breonna Taylor and her family deserve justice by seeing those officers who slayed her in cuffs.
On the early morning of March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor lost her life for no justifiable reason. She had three circumstances against her, the background of her past boyfriend, a no knock warrant, and the color of her skin.