Thread by @bloosemore

THREAD: Quotes from protesters in Louisville, who want justice for #BreonnaTaylor.

"We're not out here to be killed, we're out here to make a point and a statement. To get them to listen to us." - @Seasoned4u

"The mayor is saying he can't fire the police, the chief is trying to slide out. Who is holding the police accountable?"

@Seasoned4u #BreonnaTaylor

"You had people who were really upset already, then you provoke a crowd that's already at the brink of their breaking point. These are the people who've watched their brothers get killed on live video."

@Seasoned4u #BreonnaTaylor

"Seen just about every day in a week where shootings with 15 and 16 and 17 year olds are dying. ... Yesterday, y'all witnessed these people who are our biggest statistic right now come together in unity for justice in their community."

@Seasoned4u #BreonnaTaylor

"Anybody speaking negative about the protest, let them speak negative. They didn't use their platform to go down there and take a stance."

Montez Jones, 36 #BreonnaTaylor

"The world knows that Louisville is going through the same thing as Minneapolis, L.A., Georgia. We going through it."

Montez Jones, 36 #BreonnaTaylor

"I don't think it should have been like that," Cashay Williams, 20, said Thursday. "I tried to tell people don't do what they doing, because they want us to act like animals because that's what they see us as."

#BreonnaTaylor

"We came with voices, they came with bats and guns, which is always the problem. ... This society wants to be heard. They want to be heard. Why can't you hear us?"

Haley Meland, 23. #BreonnaTaylor

"You just have to know it’s a big deal whenever we’re in a national pandemic, and there’s so many people gathering right now over something so cruel, and there’s still police officers who are shooting us with rubber bullets and tear gas."

Nathan Meland #BreonnaTaylor

#loumedia Please share anything else you've heard that local protesters have to say.

"Though some of these cops may not have done personally anything to deserve a rock to the face or a water bottle to the shield or whatever, that's what you sign up for, baby. As you see, people want justice."

Anthony Davis #BreonnaTaylor

"I ran into my old high school buddy (on the force). He's black. He was on the line & I was talking to him face-to-face ... but he couldn't say nothing to me. ... I messaged him when I got home, asking if he was safe, & he wished me to be safe, too."

Anthony Davis #BreonnaTaylor

"The goal is to not be violent. We don't want to become violent. Cop protesting measures will cause violence to surface. Frustration will cause violence to surface. You can't stop that."

Anthony Davis #BreonnaTaylor

Cody Travelstead also emailed me this photo.

"I was on my knees, hands up and they fired a gas canister directly at my face and multiple rubber bullets before we could get away from all the chaos."

#BreonnaTaylor