Title

Editorial: The humanity of marginalized communities is not up for political debate

Document Type

Editorial

Authors

Nate Poole

Date

9-28-2020

Keywords

Racism, Police violence, Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor

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Description

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, one of the three Louisville police officers that shot and killed Breonna Taylor while raiding her apartment in March was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment of Taylor’s neighbors, but not the shooting of Taylor herself. The grand jury decision quickly reignited Black Lives Matter protests and outrage in Louisville and across the U.S., and rightfully so. Kentucky law describes the charge against Officer Brett Hankinson as “extreme indifference to the value of human life.” Woefully misplaced as it is, Officer Hankinson should not be the only recipient of this indictment. Rather, the entire U.S. political system is just as, if not more so, culpable for its own “extreme indifference” to the lives of people of color.

Identifier

Racial Justice_Maine Campus_2021_01_17i

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Recommended Citation

Poole, Nate, "Editorial: The humanity of marginalized communities is not up for political debate" (2020). University of Maine Racial Justice Collection. 195.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/racial_justice/195