Still Fighting for Breonna Taylor
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Attica Scott is the only black woman in Kentucky’s state legislature. It turns out, that doesn’t make advocating for Breonna Taylor much easier.
Guest: Kentucky state Representative Attica Scott.
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| 0:00.0 | When I asked Attica Scott how many protests she'd been to over the death of Brianna Taylor, |
| 0:10.9 | she told me she'd been to so many. She couldn't even begin to count. |
| 0:16.0 | We were past 150 days, and I was out on the second day of protests and it's, you know, been out two or |
| 0:22.6 | three times a week since, so I couldn't calculate. So have you been out like in the last week? |
| 0:28.1 | Yeah. Oh, yes. As recently as Saturday. Adica often takes her teenage daughter along with her |
| 0:34.9 | when she marches. She says almost every protest in Louisville starts from the same corner, a park, across from the |
| 0:42.9 | city jail and the courthouse. |
| 0:44.7 | It's become known as Injustice Square. |
| 0:47.7 | It is formerly known as Jefferson Square Park. |
| 0:52.3 | And its history is that it was the site of slave auctions. And so it's |
| 0:57.2 | really powerful that a place that was the site of slave auctions has now been occupied by |
| 1:03.2 | black people seeking justice. When Attica marches, she uses her cell phone as a kind of tool. |
| 1:10.3 | She'll often stream herself on Instagram live. |
| 1:12.9 | She wants to show that the protests in Louisville are peaceful. |
| 1:16.5 | But she's also trying to keep herself safe. |
| 1:20.6 | All right, y'all, we have to park, and now we're walking. |
| 1:25.8 | Last month, after the state attorney general general announced he would not be bringing homicide charges |
| 1:31.6 | against the officers involved in Brianna Taylor's death. |
| 1:35.2 | Attica was out on the streets again, cell phone rolling. |
| 1:38.7 | So we're about to cross Broadway. |
| 1:40.5 | Just want you all to know, because it's important that we have witnesses. |
| 1:45.8 | While she walks, she's constantly broadcasting her location. It's like a homing beacon for her |
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