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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Shortly after the release of 911 audio from the night Breonna Taylor died, hundreds gathered to protest the actions of Louisville Metro Police, kicking off months of nightly rallies in streets across the city.
“If we don’t protest now, our future, it’s a problem,” protester Chris Wells said. “That’s why we keep going.”
What You Need To Know
Protests over the death of Breonna Taylor started the night of May 28, 2020
Louisville police officers killed Taylor while executing a no-knock at her apartment
911 audio of her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, from the night she died was released before protests started
Treating violence as systemic and a public health issue
Monday s panelists largely agreed about the need to better understand the systemic problems that are fueling violent crime in Louisville and to implement violence prevention programs that approach rising crime as a matter of public health. We know that from a public health perspective that there are multiple levels of influence when we re talking about violence, Williams said. It s not just the individual behavior, but there are multiple factors that influence that individual s behavior … We have to deploy strategies that are prevention oriented, that are intervention oriented, that have an eye on organizational and developmental change.
Faces of six unarmed black people shot dead by US cops since George Floyd s death
George Floyd s shocking death on May 25, 2020, sparked protests nationwide, but in the year since his murder there have been a number of innocent black people killed by police in the US
The killing of George Floyd a year ago sparked outrage across the world but not much appears to have changed in the US (Image: FAMILY HANDOUT/AFP via Getty Ima)
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In Louisville and across America, there is a widespread realization that it is well past time for us to reimagine public safety. While acknowledging that our police officers perform a difficult, dangerous and essential job, we also must recognize that public safety is more than we can realistically expect the police to create alone.
This means that to fully answer the calls for racial justice and equity following the tragic deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and far too many others, we must, as a society, take more responsibility for creating the conditions necessary for public safety in every neighborhood. This was a resounding theme in a two-day national summit on Reimagining Public Safety that I led May 18-19 in my role as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.