“What does a world look like where Black women matter?”
On March 13th, Breonna Taylor was asleep in her Louisville home with her boyfriend. Around 12:30 AM that night, police officers barged into her home utilizing a no-knock warrant and killed Ms. Taylor after shooting her eight times. Taylor’s boyfriend was initially charged with a crime after shooting at who he thought were intruders in the officers, but charges were later dropped for the time being. Since the killing, serious questions have emerged about the officers’ conduct that night, why they were there to begin with, their reporting of the killing in official documentation, and as to whether the officers’ presence was part of a larger plot to gentrify the neighborhood.