St. Louis Sergeant Heather Taylor refuses to sit back and watch police brutality: 'We will not excuse officers, no matter their race, when we fail to take action to help others' (via BETNews)
by Louisville Police Department during a no-knock warrant was gut-wrenching. And, yes, I wrote murder although charges have yet to be filed against those officers because that’s what it was. No-knock warrants are dangerous, even more so when officers conducting the warrant have not done their homework on the target of the warrant. Reading news reports that stated the target didn’t live in the home and was already in custody places the blame squarely on the Louisville Police Department.
In the last four days, I’ve seen glimpses of hope with officers who are taking the time and effort to engage the people they encounter. Some have gone so far as to take a knee. My hope is that these aren’t carefully staged photo opps but instead genuine olive branches to calm the public and diffuse tensions. If so, I say kudos to those officers.
However, what is going to help more than anything are officers who are willing to be bold enough to take action in the moment. Officers who will step in to prevent a heartless killer likeFor days I’ve watched video after video of officers behaving inhumanely with no acts of accountability pushed against them. Then to my relief, I saw a Black female officer from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department who was genuinely fed up. One of her officers engaged a crowd of protesters.
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