Activists said possible topics for the conversation include police brutality, a marker denoting the protest movement, qualified immunity and local reparations.
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Breonna Taylor’s city is ‘in crisis.’ A new police chief tasked with healing brings her own baggage.
Erika Shields comes to the department from Atlanta, where she stepped down hours after one of her officers killed a Black man in a Wendy s parking lot.
By By Marisa IatiThe Washington Post
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A protester displays a painting of Breonna Taylor during a rally on the one-year anniversary of her death at Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday. Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press
Police Chief Erika Shields stepped from one inferno straight into another. After one of her officers fatally shot a Black man in a Wendy’s parking lot, she resigned from the Atlanta Police Department and applied to just one new force: Louisville, where the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor during an early-morning raid had roiled the country and transformed the city into an epicenter of last year’s protests.
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The Southwest Minnesota State University Drama Club will present Clue: The Musical, today and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre at Southwest Minnesota State University.
Clue: The Musical is a hilarious and catchy interpretation of the Parker Brothers board game. The audience blindly selects three cards at the beginning of the show to decide who kills Mr. Boddy, with what weapon, and in what room. That allows for 216 possible endings.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for SMSU students, and free for children under 12. Tickets are available at the door. In keeping with current public health guidelines, physically-distanced seating is limited to 79 per performance.
It s by design : Black people most often charged with felonies amid Louisville protests Bailey Loosemore, Louisville Courier Journal They are setting us up : Kentucky State Rep. Attica Scott on her arrest during protests
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Louisville police charged Black people with felonies at more than double the rate as their white counterparts during the first four months of protests over the death of Breonna Taylor.
Between May 29 and Sept. 28, Louisville Metro Police recorded 871 protest-related arrests, including 252 with at least one felony charge, according to data released through a Kentucky Open Records Act request.
A Courier Journal analysis of the data found that Black people made up 53% of the total arrests and 69% of arrests with a felony, including burglary, assault of a police officer and criminal mischief.