Breonna Taylor and hundreds of Black women have died at the hands of police. The movement to say their names is growing. Donna M. Owens © Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum wears a hoodie with the names of Black daughters, sisters, wives, cousins, and community members killed by police.
No one sets out to be a Black Lives Matter martyr. But somewhere along the way last year, as masked marchers from Louisville to Las Vegas chanted her name, Breonna Taylor became a symbol of change.
Taylor’s fate was sealed in the wee hours of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police officers burst into the 26-year-old’s apartment on a no-knock warrant, firing 32 bullet rounds and killing the emergency room technician as she stood in her hallway with her boyfriend, who survived.
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Cori Bush other lawmakers call out white supremacy druing Capitol riots CNN 1/14/2021 By Nicole Chavez, CNN © Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators marched in Hollywood, California last June to protest the death of George Floyd. Let us be clear, this was a domestic terror attack perpetrated by riotist mobs of White supremacists, armed equipped and many skilled in police and military tactics who came to overturn an election in which their candidate Trump lost, Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said in the group s hearing.
During the impeachment debate Wednesday to excoriate Trump, Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, who was a veteran BLM activist before becoming a legislator, called the President White supremacist in chief.
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For All the Names Impacted by Mental Illness and Police Violence Violette Kay © The Mighty A collage of BIPOC people killed by the police
There’s a line in Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s “Sound of the Beast” that I think about all the time: “I’m with them, whoever they are.”
I’m with the old man yelling at the air in the waiting room of my psychiatrist’s office. I’m with the manic mother facing a judge to challenge her court-ordered hospital stay. I’m with every patient who has been punished for a behavior caused by the very illness they are receiving treatment for. I’m with my fellow mentally ill people of color who face racism daily, as if living with a mental illness isn’t already hard enough. I’m with every Black person killed by a police officer, I’m with the ones who had mental illnesses, the ones who were killed while experiencing a mental health crisis, by the very people who were sent to help them. I’m with them.
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