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This is Talk Easy.

This is Talk Easy.

I'm San Fregoso. Thank you for being here.

Before we get into the show, I wanted to start with what happened in the Brianna Taylor case this week.

By now you have likely heard her story.

Taylor, a 26 year old hospital worker, was shot multiple times in her own home on March 13th by three police officers.

This past week we learned that none of the three officers who fired bullets in this woman's house

will be charged with murder or manslaughter.

One of the officers, Brett Hankinson, has been charged with wanton endangerment for firing

into a neighbor's apartment in Louisville.

It seems the court is willing to give justice to a neighbor's apartment before giving justice to a woman's life.

Earlier this month, officials agreed to pay Taylor's family $12 million in a settlement.

There is no amount of money that will bring Taylor back.

This verdict, however, could have been a start, and instead

has turned into a colossal misstep and a time where we desperately need police accountability and reform.

In the coming weeks we'll be having conversations around this very subject with writer Claudia Rankin,

Representative Ilhan Omar, Trauma Specialist Resma Menacin, and Dr. Cornell West. For now, for today, my heart is with Brianna Taylor and her

surviving family. These conversations here on this show are not enough, but I know they are a

start. So I know everyone here on this show is committed to doing the work that needs to get

done and I just hope whoever you are wherever you are right now that you are staying safe as we work to make the

changes that need to be made. For now, let's get to our show. Today on the show I am pleased to have on Miranda July. She's written books of fiction like no one

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