“While Breonna’s murder and my treatment by LMPD has all but destroyed my faith in the criminal justice system, it is my hope that holding the officers criminally accountable for their actions can bring some measure of justice,” Walker said.
His Louisville attorney, Steve Romines, said if no officers are charged, “a lot of people are going to be very upset.”
While the goals of the Taylor movement have grown over the summer, at the crux is the same cry that protesters have been asking for since demonstrations began, more than 100 days ago: “Arrest the cops.”
That message echoed in the early days of the protests, was sung on the steps of the state Capitol during a rally in Frankfort, presented itself in living rooms in the form of a television ad, and is still evident on artwork at Jefferson Square Park and on the lips of protesters in the small groups that continue to march from there each night.
Demanding that the three involved officers be charged with responsibility for Taylor’s death has been the most tangible and consistent desire of the protesters.
“Will they get what they’re at least crying for, cries for justice, murder charges on all three counts?” 2X said. “That’s a little high bar, to be quite frank.”
If the three officers are not charged with significant crimes, demonstrators may respond with anger to a justice system they feel has let them down yet again.
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