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This article, “The Long Goodbye,” originally appeared in the March/April issue of ESSENCE magazine, available on newsstands now.
After completing four overnight shifts in a row at the hospital where she worked as an emergency-room technician, Breonna Taylor was ready for date night with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. The plan was dinner at a steakhouse, followed by watching a movie at the small, well-appointed apartment Taylor shared with her younger sister Ju’Niyah Palmer. Privacy wouldn’t be an issue, as Palmer was away on a trip. An exhausted Taylor began falling asleep while the movie was still playing. “Turn the TV off” was the last thing Walker remembers Taylor saying to him before yielding to sleep. What happened next would become national news, as Breonna Taylor’s name joined the painful list of Black lives that didn’t matter enough to law enforcement.
Louisville police department gets harsh rebuke in new report commissioned after Breonna Taylor’s killing
The Louisville Metro Police Department received a harsh rebuke in a new study commissioned by the city in the wake of the police killing of Breonna Taylor last year.
The department is ridden with low morale and is not trusted by the Kentucky city’s communities of color, according to the 150-page report released by city officials.
The LMPD has been in the national spotlight since Taylor’s death. The 26-year-old emergency room technician was shot and killed by Louisville police officers in her apartment during a flawed forced-entry raid in the early hours of March 13, 2020.
An attorney representing former Louisville Police Officer Brett Hankison plans to file a petition to move his trial on charges related to the Breonna Taylor case.Hankison's attorney, Stew Mathews, told Jefferson Circuit Judge Ann Bailey Smith on Wednesday that he will request a change in venue to another county in the next two weeks, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.Smith is expected to hear the motion to change the location on March.