Last June, I went to Louisville, Kentucky to meet some of Brianna Taylor's closest friends and relatives.

You never would think that her name would be added to a list.

It has to. It has to. Or, you know, now you write and say her name.

It's been one year since the 26-year-old was shot and killed by police in her own apartment.

Brianna Taylor was an emergency room technician, planning to go back to school to advance her

career in medicine. The officers who killed her were executing a no-knock search warrant,

looking for evidence of drug dealing that they never found.

You just think like, how? Like, why is she even hurting it? How does this happen?

These are Taylor's aunts, Tahasha Holloway and Bianca Austin.

And in a sense, we're grateful that her name is, where she should be, you know, unfortunately,

in this situation. But, you know, we don't want this at all. We want her back.

Do you think something good will come of this?

I'm proud of that. I'm proud of that. I said, we need real change in America.

Because it's scary. It's like, I got to still raise a little black boy here in this

world we live in. Yeah, anybody. Nobody's safe. If this can happen to Brianna, it can happen to anybody.

Consider this one year since her death. Brianna Taylor's name has become a national symbol in the

fight against racial injustice and police violence. But beyond this symbolism, many feel that actual

progress has been disappointed. From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Friday, March 12.

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So on my show, my guest and I make sense of the news and culture through conversation.

It feels like we're living in three movies at once.

That's a good way to put it. It feels like a mic judge movie. It feels like a spiky movie.

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