Hello friends and comrades this is Tanya one third of the Trill Billy Workers Party

podcast. Thanks for joining us today. I am really proud to be able to release this bonus episode that could be the first in a series about Kentucky incarceration.

I'm releasing this on Friday, May 29th.

But this is an interview I did with Shemika Parish Wright from the Bell Project in Louisville, who's been

organizing in Louisville since the beginning of COVID to try to get the hundreds of people being held in the jail in

Louisville released who are just being held there on bail pre-trial.

So since the recording of this interview

a little over a week ago.

We have seen some pretty horrific and incredible things play out,

starting with the death of George Floyd by a cop in Minneapolis and the revolts and riots that followed in Minneapolis over the last two days that resulted in the burning

of their fire station. So in Louisville, Kentucky, back in March, a young woman named Brianna Taylor was also murdered

by police in her home in the middle of the night in front of her partner and what happened last night on

Thursday night as or yesterday afternoon on Thursday as riots were

escalating in Minneapolis.

The attorney of Brianna Taylor's family finally was able to get and release

the 911 call from Brianna Taylor's partner proving what he has been saying and the family has been

saying that they didn't even know it was the cops in their home and he was terrified. It's a horrible audio to hear but you can find that on the

internet if you like. And in response to the release of that 911 call and in some solidarity certainly with a

movement to get justice for George Floyd people took to the streets in Louisville, Kentucky last night on Thursday night, May 28th.

In response to what happened there last night, including shots fired into the crowd.

Lots of protesters have been locked up and are in jail today.

Shemika Parish Rite, of course, has immediately been organizing with those people and

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