Breonna Taylor, Listener Mail, and the Seattle Protests
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🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello media consumers, this is the press box, Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker of the |
| 0:12.8 | Ringer here. A lot to get to today as we finish up another interesting tumultuous week. |
| 0:17.8 | We'll answer your listener mail, for instance, on the day in which John Bolton is making news. |
| 0:23.8 | David and I answer the question, which White House memoir would we actually want to read? |
| 0:28.8 | We'll talk to reporter Evan Bush about the Seattle protest that has become its own autonomous part of the city. |
| 0:34.8 | Why is Donald Trump so interested in the Capitol Hill organized protest? |
| 0:39.2 | All that plus the return of David guesses a strain pun headline in the overworked Twitter joke of the week. |
| 0:44.4 | But first David, we want to talk about Brianna Taylor, a black woman who was killed by Louisville police on March 13th. |
| 0:51.1 | Let's bring in Jordan Khan. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Road to Raka, which you should go ahead and order right now. |
| 0:58.8 | And writer of a fabulous new article at the Ringer about Taylor and her family that's out today. |
| 1:03.7 | Jordan, thank you for joining us. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:07.1 | I don't want to leave anyone behind who hasn't followed this story closely. |
| 1:10.8 | So let's start right here. How did Brianna Taylor die on the night of March 13th? |
| 1:15.9 | On the night of March 13th. So early on the morning of March 13th, a little bit after midnight, three Louisville police officers |
| 1:24.8 | arrived at her home with a no-knock warrant, which at the time was legal and Louisville and allows |
| 1:33.0 | allows officers to enter a home without knocking or announcing their presence. |
| 1:37.7 | They went into her home while she was asleep with her boyfriend. |
| 1:42.4 | They'd been watching a movie. She had just knotted off the sleep and they shot her eight times and killed her. |
| 1:49.6 | And her family, some weeks later, filed a lawsuit and began a process of seeking justice for her killing. |
| 2:01.2 | And she has now become someone whose name is being chanted in cities around the world and |
| 2:08.8 | to has become a, her memory has become a critical piece of this large movement for |
| 2:15.7 | this larger movement against racial injustice and police violence that we're seeing around America and across the world. |
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