How policing failed Breonna Taylor

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🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Why police are rarely charged for shooting people — and whether police tactics will change. The movement to abolish Greek life on campuses. And, the question of court-packing.

In Louisville, clashes erupted after a grand jury’s decision in the police shooting of Breonna Taylor. Investigative reporter Robert Klemko is in Louisville. He shares why it’s so hard to charge police officers of wrongdoing. Follow The Post’s live updates here.

Across college campuses, students are calling for an end to Greek life amid the nation’s racial reckoning. “It's the students who are in Greek life or who were in Greek life who are leading it and who are not calling for reforms,” reporter Emily Davies says, “They're calling for an end to this system.”

There haven’t always been nine justices on the Supreme Court. Alison Michaels, host of the Post podcast “Can He Do That?” speaks with Lisa M. Holmes, a political science professor at the University of Vermont, about the number of seats on the Supreme Court and how it has been politicized in the past.

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0:20.4	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
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0:27.9	Hi, this is Elahia Zadi with The Washington Post.
0:30.8	Hey, this is Post Reports.
0:32.7	I'm routine powers.
0:36.2	It's Thursday, September 24th.
0:41.0	Today, how the system failed Breonna Taylor.
0:44.7	Why students are calling for an end to Greek life,
0:48.0	and a brief history of court packing.
0:50.8	In Frankfort, Kentucky, the young attorney general, Daniel Cameron,
0:58.0	Republican, African-American man, seen as a rising star in the Republican party,
1:04.1	announces that just one of the three officers directly involved in Breonna Taylor's shooting
1:10.0	will face charges and not for actually shooting at Taylor.
1:14.4	There is no doubt that this is a gut-wrenching, emotional case,
1:20.6	and the pain that many people are feeling is understandable.
1:24.8	The officer who had already been fired, who shot through the window of her apartment,
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