Breonna Taylor, Sarah Everard, and the relentless police story
USA Today Network, came together, on the paper’s
5 Things podcast, to discuss the killing of Breonna Taylor a Black emergency medical technician in Louisville, Kentucky, who was shot by police in her apartment a year ago Saturday and their experiences covering the story as Black women journalists. “I’m twenty-six, she was twenty-six, and her life was only just beginning,” Brown said. “She easily could have been any one of us… You can literally sit in your house, not go out at all, lock the doors, and you can still be killed by the police.” They also critiqued aspects of the media coverage of Taylor’s killing, including the need to humanize her, a lack of context around police brutality, and the time it took after her death for her story to be told. “There wasn’t any coverage for a long time, and after there
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BATON ROUGE – A state judge has turned down state Attorney General Jeff Landry’s bid to sideline a journalist’s quest to get copies of sexual harassment complaints against one of Landry’s top lieutenants.
Judge Tim Kelley on March 4 ruled against Landry in a lawsuit he filed in the 19th Judicial District against The Advocate reporter Andrea Gallo, saying he would order the release of redacted records relating to complaints against Deputy Attorney General Pat Magee. Kelley also awarded reasonable legal fees to Gallo’s counsel in a lawsuit that was universally panned by free-speech advocates.
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BATON ROUGE - A top attorney in the Louisiana Attorney General s Office resigned Thursday after a complaint revealed he discussed workers who had children out of wedlock, the likelihood jurors on trials would want to have sex with female attorneys and was concerned about the attractiveness of a colleague that made him lustful.
Sources close to the matter confirmed Patrick Magee s resignation to WBRZ s Chris Nakamoto Thursday afternoon. Nakamoto will speak with one of the alleged victims on News 2 at 6:00.
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