Understand The Outrage

The fact is, there are people who don't understand the outrage people are feeling from the latest justice failure in Louisville, Kentucky. All of us, yes all of us, should step back for a moment and understand the reality of why people are outraged.

Breonna Taylor was a young Black woman who's life was erased by the Kentucky Attorney General and the Grand Jury that looked at the incident leading to her death. She isn't the first Black woman or the only Black person whose life has been erased by various Police Departments, States, and Grand Jurys. Think about that. Her life was literally erased from the incident that occurred in her apartment so many months ago. Her name didn't seem to appear anywhere in the indictment that was issued by the Grand Jury. People dwelling in other apartments at the time of the incident were named, but Breonna Taylor, shot as a bystander was not mentioned. 

That in itself is a major part of the outrage. The pain that Breonna's family must feel is incomprehensible to me. A young woman, an EMT and first responder in her community, shot six times and killed in an incident where the actual facts of the warrant and process continue to be under investigation. Yet her name, her person and her being are erased from the entire affair. 

So yes, we can condemn violence and condemn looting but in the end that will make little difference if we don't begin to understand the injustice of a judicial and investigative process that erases people from receiving any justice. This is why we have to say her name - Breonna Taylor - over and over, until more people associated with administering what is supposed to be equal justice begin to understand. The justice system has to change. There has to be transparency when police officers are involved in the death of citizens. Until we have those kind of changes, there will continue to be righteous outrage and anger and people will continue to say her name - Breonna Taylor......Breonna Taylor shot and killed as a bystander with no justice.