Justice for Breonna Taylor

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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There hasn’t been an arrest in the case in the three months since police shot and killed Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky. But now the “Justice for Breonna” movement has the potential to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you caught the show yesterday, you heard that Black Lives Matter is working.
0:08.0	All across the United States, there's a racial reckoning taking place.
0:11.8	That means justice.
0:13.7	Justice for George Floyd.
0:15.2	Derek Chauvin is behind bars charged with murder.
0:18.7	Justice for Ahmad Arbery.
0:20.6	This week, the three men involved in his killing were indicted.
0:24.8	But justice has been more slow going for Brianna Taylor.
0:29.2	He was shot to death by police officers in Louisville, Kentucky in mid-March, but no
0:34.3	one's been charged with anything.
0:36.9	But that doesn't mean calls for justice for Brianna aren't working.
0:41.4	They might even be working in ways no one could have predicted.
0:44.5	Believe it or not, right now, Justice for Brianna has the potential to unseat Senate majority
0:50.4	leader Mitch McConnell.
0:51.8	Today, we're talking to two local reporters from the Louisville Courier Journal to find
0:56.5	out how we're going to start with Tessa DuVal.
0:59.6	She's been covering Brianna's case.
1:01.6	Brianna Taylor was a 26-year-old woman living in Louisville, Kentucky.
1:07.0	She was an ER tech working at two area hospitals and her mom described her ambitions for the
1:14.4	future as she wanted to be a nurse.
1:17.7	She wanted to further her career in the medical field.
1:22.3	She wanted to have her own family and have a house.
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