The Breonna Taylor case, the other case of police violence that shakes the United States

Breonna Taylor would have been 27 years old on Friday June 5. On that day, hundreds of protesters descended on downtown Louisville, Kentucky, to demand the arrest and charge of the police officers involved in the death of this medical technician killed on 13 last March at his home. Some have intoned a "Happy Birthday" while others have sent birthday cards to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to demand justice, according to the New York Times.

At the same time, on social networks, the fervor is also keen for this young African-American who dreamed of becoming a nurse. "#BreonnaTaylor should celebrate her 27th birthday. Instead, she was shot and killed while sleeping in bed. The police were not charged," tweets from angry Internet users said. .

We demand justice for Breonna Taylor. She should be alive celebrating her birthday with family & friends. Instead her life was cut short by senseless police violence. The officers should be arrested & held accountable. #SayHerName #BirthdayforBreonna pic.twitter.com/o8cXMo9X52

Since then, the name of Breonna Taylor has become inseparable from the hashtag #SayHerName, a social movement born in 2015 in the tradition of the "Black Lives Matter" movement and intended to remind that black women in the United States are just as victims of police violence. only men. Senator Kamala Harris shared this sentiment on Twitter. "We cannot forget black women in our quest for justice," she wrote.

Black women killed at the hands of law enforcement cannot be forgotten in our fight for justice. #Saytheirnames https://t.co/sSHkqfx3cs

"Her life has been tragically taken by the police and we will not stop walking for justice until she has served her and her family. #SayHerName," said Democrat, Senator Cory Booker. New Jersey.

Today would've been Breonna Taylor's 27th birthday. Her life was tragically taken by police and we will not stop marching for justice until it's served for her and her family. #SayHerName

Personalities such as actresses Millie Bobby Brown, Emily Ratajkowski or even singer Cardi B also joined this mobilization on the Web.

Happy Birthday #BreonnaTaylor .She looks so pretty and fine in this pic.Her story it's so sad and unfair and it almost didn't get picked up by the media.Kentuky police department really tried to sweep her case under the rug, but got is BIG.The fight ain't over till you get justice pic.twitter.com/LuZFu4tlFF

"We are not trying to compete with Floyd's story"

"All Black Lives Matter" commented in the columns of the New York Times Andrea Ritchie, author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color" black and women of color). We are not trying to compete with the story of Floyd, we are trying to finish the story, "added the activist who is surprised that the name of Breonna Taylor is not more chanted in the protests that are currently agitating the United States. United.

For several weeks, the Breonna Taylor case remained forgotten by the media. Probably because of the widespread media attention at the time to the Covid-19 epidemic, says Taylor family lawyer Ben Crump. But also the absence of video during the death of the young woman, unlike those of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. 

The facts are there: around 1 a.m. on March 13, three plainclothes police searched the Breonna Taylor's address with a warrant. When the police entered the apartment after breaking down the front door, her fiancé, Kenneth Walker, grabbed her gun and fired a gunshot, hitting one of the police officers in the thigh. One of them replied by firing at least 20 shots at the couple. Breonna Taylor received at least eight bullets.

After miraculously surviving the shooting, Kenneth Walker was arrested and charged with attempted murder, before charges were dropped the following month.

"The 2nd amendment does not apply to African Americans"

According to the Louisville Courier Journal, police were investigating two men who they believed were selling drugs in a house far from Breonna Taylor's home. However, a warrant was signed to authorize the police to search his apartment on the grounds that one of the two men had used this address to receive packages. It allowed the police to enter without warning and without identifying themselves.

"The second amendment does not apply to African Americans. [Breonna Taylor and Kenneth Walker] thought they were victims of burglary," said family lawyer and civil rights lawyer Ben Crump in a statement. interview on CBS. He fights for the death of the young woman to be reclassified as murder.

Since late May, the FBI has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor. According to the latest elements of the investigation, the police did not find drugs in the young woman's apartment and the wanted drug dealer was already arrested when the search warrant was executed.

The fact remains that the three Louisville police officers involved in this affair have never been worried for the time being. In Louisville, tension is intensifying in the streets. On June 1, on the sidelines of demonstrations against police violence, the police again killed a 53-year-old restaurateur, David Mc Atee. He was African American.

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