I am all for Breonna Taylor’s family getting paid.
The problem is that money doesn’t come out of the police department’s pockets, but the taxpayers who live in Taylor’s own community.
Police departments across the country pay out millions each year in settlements that is paid by taxpayers, but the cops doing the wrongdoing get to keep their job and roam free.
That is a problem.
Louisville’s metro government is expected to announce a “substantial” financial settlement Tuesday with the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman fatally shot by police in her apartment six months ago, The Courier Journal has learned.
As you can imagine people have spoken up about how this isn’t what needs to happen for true justice.
Flip the pages for some of the Tweets.