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The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, who was murdered in her bed by police officers.
Money does not buy justice, but some kind of remuneration for the shocking crimes committed by the Louisville PD is the least the city can do.
The agreement was reached quickly, at least in relative terms, coming 6 months after Taylor was killed, and over 3 months of sustained protests throughout the city and country.
The city was not required to acknowledge wrongdoing in the settlement. That says about all of it.
If you needed more evidence that there’s no real justice here, take this: @nytimes reports that legal experts don’t think there will be any legal charges brought against the officers who killed Taylor.
» That decision comes from the fact that Taylor’s boyfriend fired a weapon at officers first, believing them to be home intruders, as they burst into the apartment in the dead of night.
City leadership has agreed to a series of police reforms, but it's pretty apparent that these are all just a bandaid, like the $12 million in blood money paid out to wash away the crime of another black life lost at the hands of police.
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