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Jul 28, 2020 12 tweets 6 min read Read on X
George’s name was on everyone’s lips. Ahmaud’s story was on every timeline. Not just the right or left- but the middle. But is it just me or is it, unless Black, an Activist or a Racist- Most of the middle have little clue who #BreonnaTaylor is. /1
The combined factors of MisogyNoir mixed with the sick need for sensationalism mean that not being a man & not having footage of her death has led to invisibility. We keep saying her name but they keep NOT knowing her & not caring. THAT’S why her killers are still free! /2 Image
So we need to make them care. We need to stop adding her as a PostScript- it’s a clever way to get her name out there but people are lazy & apathetic so most aren’t going to do the work of looking her up. So let’s do the work for them, or rather let’s do the work for Breonna! /3 Image
She was a 26 yr old EMT & aspiring Nurse. She was asleep with her boyfriend when Police pounded at her door. They had a warrant in relation to her *EX* boyfriend who they’d already detained 10 miles away. The standby ambulance for the raid was sent away as it was called off /4 Image
Yet somewhere along the line something changed & they proceeded.
When Breonna’s boyfriend heard no reply to his shouts of “Who is it?” He armed himself with his registered weapon prepared to protect Breonna despite having never shot outside a range. The door burst in /5 Image
Plain clothed officer Johnathan Mattingly entered Breonna’s apartment & her boyfriend Kenneth fired a SINGLE warning shot, striking the apparent intruder in the leg.
At that point, as stated in the lawsuit of Breonna’s grieving family- the officers offloaded a hail of bullets /6 Image
Mattingly Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, shot 'erratically, recklessly, willfully, wantonly & maliciously from inside the home, outside the home, outside a neighbor's home, outside Breonna's patio door & outside the window to Breonna's sisters room' /7 Image
Breonna was struck by EIGHT bullets in her own hallway where she suffered for up to 5 minutes while the injured officer had his leg wound tended to. 20 minutes passed between her murder & anyone attending to Breonna. /8 Image
She was shot at 12.43am, dead by 12.48am but her murder was not called in until 1.10am. There’s been petitions, there’s ongoing protests from marches to hunger strikes. But still NONE of Breonna’s killers have been arrested & only one fired from duty. /9 Image
So whilst Trump boasts about sending 75,000 agents into the states to deal with protesters. He could instead use them to expedite all these investigations & cases. Instead of filling the courts with peaceful protesters, they could be filled with the cases of police brutality /10 Image
The courts could be filled with cases where black lives were stolen or imprisoned for the criminalisation of their skin.
Trump wants to oppress the protests away. But they won’t stop until Black Lives Matter, so deliver #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #AndJusticeForAll ImageImageImage

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