We're Still Fighting for Breonna Taylor

were going to be meeting with the family of Brianna Taylor. Uh. And so we until Freedom got up, packed up and we came to Louisville and waited after you know, for their meeting to take place for us to learn, um, what the Feds were up to. And they came for we were to say that they're going to charge four officers uh in the murder of Brianna Taylor. And it's significant because all of you have been with us on this process and throughout this process. This has been a journey.

It's been two years uh and a few months since we met Brianna Taylor's family and we took you along with us and you've been here and you invested by sending your money, you signed petitions, uh, you showed up at marches and and and did what you could to be a part of a movement for a black woman, a young black woman. And so today feels good. It feels good because, uh, finally it has been proven that we are not crazy. That the Department of Justice knows

what happened to Brianna Taylor is it was wrong. And that's just the only that's the easiest way that it just was wrong. It was And everybody who tried to cover it up. I then you Cameron and inside and everybody in his department they knew. You know, the evidence that the Feds got was already in law. You know, the Feds had to come in here and find one individual who was able to tie this all together. That means that the state had the same information and they

willing fly with that's the word. We just learned woefully what hell that evidence? And they willfully deprived Brianna Taylor a family of justice. And they lie, they lied. And I'm Daniel Cameron, I mean we it's sad. A black man that ain't worth the skin. He has listen all skinful king king folk, and this man is definitely one

of those individuals that proved that saying to be right. Man. Today, we just left a press conference where we were joined by our brother Benjamin Crump, Attorney same Agguie Law Aggie are the ellis Island Right Age are our other co founders of Until Freedom, Angelo Pinto Um Lindas ar Sore. We also were joined by the Louisville Urban Leagues, Sono's and a host of other people who did the Hope. We went and we did the press conference in Breakway.

You know, if you don't know Rereeway is it is ground zero of the movement for Brianna Taylors, where all the individuals in Louisville and worldwide came and slept in the square all night long and every day and they would march and they would rallied and they would demand justice from Brianna Taylor. So it was only fitting that we did the press conference there in which you know, Benjamin Crump announced the charges that would go out and you know, I don't, I don't know. It was surreal.

It was surreal for me. You just really like wow, because I had been in that same place when Daniel Cameron told us that there was only gonna charge somebody for shooting at the walls, and I remember that feeling. I remember standing next to Tamika and standing next to Angelo and Trade shout out to Trade the truth man, who've been on the front Yeah, because we didn't. Yeah,

we just when we found out weld them. But Trade was definitely one of those individuals responsible, you know, lifting and being on the front line every day, and in

his voice and everything he did definitely matters. But we was there, and I remember you on the phone with Lnita and she was saying, how you know, Tamika Palmer was sick coming back to when she was so sick she was throwing up, you know, and I remember that and it hurt me so much, you know, So being in that square at that time, and then being there today to watch your cry tears of joy, it was just surreal to me. So, you know, I just I don't even know what to say at this point, man, Like, well,

let's let them say. There are guests today to mak A Palmer and Jenia Palmer, the mother and sister of Brianna Taylor, and attorney Lnita Baker, a black woman who is the head of eighty thousand black lawyers. She just got installed as the new president of the National Bar Association. Uh And and she deserves this also as a victory because there were many people who were they says, and they didn't believe. I just want to say thank you to anybody who didn't believe in us. Thank you, thank you.

I want to thank me. I want to thank you. I want to thank me. Jada Pain, Alicia keys CARDI being rapsody. I don't even want to get myself degenerous. And every day, yes, all day it was terrible. Everybody Man Louisville, eighty seven to sixty five, everybody, Steven Green, Leslie Red, Marissa Farrow. Uh well it's a toy era well, Jules, Uh, it's so many people. Wanda Cooper, amad Aarby's mother was here with us. Attorney Lee married, Shaun King oh Man,

Seaun king Kane. He he got COVID from being here at at the at the Brianna Khan conference. Oh Man, and people try to give us hell every which ja. I want to thank y'all of the haters and of what y'all waantching for. You ain't really doing nothing and you waste some time. You know, all y'all did was get a couple of dollars and all the bullsh everybody who said everybody who did that, we want to thank you because it was you who actually gave me few.

I'm saying me, it gives me few when somebody tells me I can't do something, when somebody is against it gives me a different level of few and energy to fight harder. So I would like to think all of them, they says, for your contribution to us, get injustice for Brianna Temps. Let's bring our guests on, bring them off. That's how we are. So you know, in the midst of everything that has happened today, we wanted to stop um and make sure that we catch the initial feeling

that all of us have. And obviously none of us can um and any way, just know or feel what you to make a Palmer and uh, Jenia Palmer, what you're going through, what you're experience in today. But I feel like we've been with you for this two year journey and therefore Brianna Taylor has become our family just as much as she is yours. UM. And you know, we wanted to make sure that in this moment that

people got a chance to hear from you. Uh and also from Attorney Launita Baker, who is family as well. At this point, Uh, just on what this journey has meant, where we are, what happened today, um, and what we can expect going forward. So first of all, and you all are no strangers to street politicians. Thank you so much for coming back. I don't even think you've done any interviews yet to Maka have you, No, not at all? So tell us, um, how y'all feeling to make in Jenia?

What what's today like for you? Emotional? Um? Long overdue? Uh, it doesn't end here. It's the beginning again, you know, umh a new beginning, the beginning again. Yeah, wow, Denied. You know my heart is always with you because one you could have been in that house, right and we know that the first day that I met you, we didn't even really know one another's names, and you showed me in the window you said, look, this is my room and there were bullet holes all outside in the

window pane. Um, And I I know that not being there, you know, your life being spared because you weren't in the space, but then having your sister killed, it must just be something that I don't even know how you're sleeping right, Like it's it's gotta be really difficult, but today must also feel good to some degree. Yes it does. It definitely comes today, but like my mom saying, it's just the beginning all over again, right forming another bike

mm hmm. You know. Um, First of all, I just want to say that I love y'all, man, because this has been a long road, you know, from the beginning, you know, from from when I first met you. I never forget it was. I believe it was on Labor Day, no memorial memorial, Memorial Day, and we came and we did a memorial you know, service, and we brought some things here and I remember meeting y'all that day and from that day on, you guys been the family to me. Man.

We cried together, we laughed together. You know, we've done everything together. So today, you know, when we actually heard that there would be some level of accountability, you know, that people would be in charge, and that they acknowledged that Brianna Taylor should be alive, Like you know, we heard over and over how crazy we was and how

she did this and people. You know, we went back and forth on the internet arguing these things, and today, you know, they acknowledge that Brianna Taylor life's live life was wrongly taking, you know, and she should be alive, and people colluded to hide and do things that led to this lady depth. So that for me, you know, that part of it is definitely refreshing, man, and being able to to be there with you and hold you guys.

And because we kept saying, man, it's a good day to arrest the cops, and today was the day that they actually arrested the cops. Man. So I just want to say that first of all, but as an attorney, line need to you know, did you have believe that this day would actually happen? Um? I went back and forth initially, you know, as to Mika says, when she first met with us, I was very hesitant to say, oh, yeah, we're gonna get the officers arrested. But it was not

because I didn't think it could happen. But it was because I'm always hesitant to make promises for someone else. Um. But once we started to dig through the evidence and we began to uncover what led to Brianna's murder. To me, there's no way that she should not have been charged. But then we were here, we are two and a half years later. You know, we had the debacle that the Kentucky Attorney General did, We had the fact that

no one in Kentucky or Louisville would do anything. And so as time went on, you know, I was holding on to hope because I had to be you know, make sure that I could instill continue to instill hoping to Tamika and Jenia. But I would be lying if I sit here instead that I was like certain that we would get justice. But you know, and we say as an attorney, you know, I always talked about being

a former prosecutor. It's said, it was just within me that I'm like, we we can't not get justice here, like if there's any case too, because we knew of the lies um we saw when they tried to do the butcher job, you know, on Brianna's character, after they were called on their lives, and so it would have been very hard for me to not come to this day. But it was hard for me to keep hope that

we would arrive at this day. You you said eight hundred and ninety four days seven, Jamika, you've been talking about that. What of the eight hundred and seventy four day has been like like March to thirteen? Are every day? Was um every day that you have to explain to somebody that happened, what's wrong. It's like another slap in the face every day that someone attacks you on the internet and person yelled out these things make these accusations.

Was another attack and and it happened for eight hundred and seventy four days. M M M M. And the and the charges, Attorney Veka are so strong, right, not enough people have been charged. We wish they were more, but nonetheless the charges are so strong. Talk about that. Did you think when you got a call saying the fans want to meet with you, uh and and and and the family, did you think the charges would be at this level. I had no idea they would be

at this level. I definitely didn't expect to go and meet with the FBI today and they tell us that three of the officers that were charged are facing up to life. And when I heard that, I think it part of me like I wanted to do a court wheel in the room. But you know I couldn't have within the FBI, but it was like life life life, like you know, the and so it was just there

was a sense of vindication. And even within talking to them, they recognized that when they explained why they couldn't charge all of the officers, we understood that because the standard in federal charges it is much higher than it is on a state level. When you're talking about depriving some one of their civil rights, it's wilful and so at that moment you have to be able to prove that

they intended to deprive her. And so as they explained it, as Brett Hankinson, he set off that that round the gunfire that led the other officers to begin to fire, and so at that point where they willfully we always said they were reckless, right, but that's not the standard that you need in federal charges. So that's what when we talk about people not doing their job at the state and local level, that's where they should have been charged because of the reckless their reckless behavior led to

to Brianna Steff. But we could we never could just say that they were intentional. We've always said they were reckless. Um. But Brett Hankinson. It was because he was shooting blindly into you know, he couldn't see where he was shooting through curtains, through the furniture, basically blinds and so that's how they were able to get him for willful Um. So I didn't expect it, but I was pleasantly suprised, surprised.

I didn't know that it needed to be. I know people there were some people that was like, well, maybe they're just gonna do the perjury charge. And I'm like, if they just doing perjury, like, I'm not gonna jump up and down about a perjury church because we knew it was much more um and because Brianna should be here. Yeah. Um, Jenia Tamika, when y'all first heard that, when you heard these charges, what what did you say to yourself? What

was what was the first thing that came to your mind? Finally? Um, it was finally it was a whole lot of cuss words in my head. It was yeah, like uh, and I think it hit for Tamika. You know, you get to watch from a from the I got to watch being outside of Tamika's body. I was sitting right next to her, and it was when they said, you know, we're charging them with deprivation of Brianna Taylor's civil rights. And then they added which resulted in the death of

Brianna Taylor. And that's when it set in for for Tamika and and it hit home. So if you talk about that a little bit to Mika, just when they added that resulting in the death here that again it's like I've been saying this for eight hundred and seventy four days, you know, and to hear somebody agreed that what we've been seeing was right is amazing reason. It doesn't change what happened to her, but um, it just to know that somebody's about to Other people saw what

we saw. Other people are recognizing and willing to say it's time to take action. It's time for these people to pay for that. It's the emotion was I remember losing my breath and and like feeling like I was gasping for the next heir to finish listening just to hear what they're saying and then trying to comprehend it. And it's such a holder opposite of the meeting you had with the Attorney General Daniel Cameron when he died and as far as I'm concerned, uh, he committed. I'm

still trying to find the word. I want to call him a criminal, but I need the right language. I'm gonna I'm gonna get it one day. But that meeting that you had where they called you to a place and and I remember distinctly Attorney sam agyar An, Attorney La Needa Baker telling the State of Kentucky, do not bring to make a palmer an hour away from her home to hear bad news. You could tell that all on the phone, and they still let you drive all the way. And it's like it's like it was disrespect.

It was it was like it was intentional, intentionally done to turn a night in your stomach right having you because we have to stop thinking that these people they just made a mistake or made you known. Know this, this is diabolical. It's intentional, right to have you drive there for him to to tell you that they would not bring charges and that they only charged that would in fact um that would be going to court or whatever was for the wall, a bullet going through a wall.

It's such a difference between yesterday and today. Daniel Cameron, I need to that, I need you to unpack for me how much criminal activity took place in terms of what this man did not do. I mean, he just completely there. There was mouthfeasons of office. He is elected by the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and he did everything to go against what our laws tell him he should do as a prosecutor. He did not allow the jury to deliberate as it relates to churches with Brianna.

He intentionally just ignored evidence that was right in front of him. By the time he got that case, he knew that there was a line of lines can contained within the search warrant. Had he done a little bit of work, he would have known that they did a cover up after. But no, he decided he was going to being bad and want to continue to be endorsed and and and loved and favored by f O P and the Republican Attorney General's Association, such that he did

not do his job. Um he he He's an embarrassment to the legal profession because you have jurors coming forward saying he did not do what he was supposed to do. Like I mean, how often do you see where the jurors that the very jurors that you were presenting in front of saying you did a horrible job. You left them feeling like they failed because they were not able to deliberate and bring justice for Brianna Taylor. So he's

an embarrassment um and the legal profession. And he lied because he said, ever, the reason why the jurors came forward is because he tried to make it seen like they all like the jurors decided that they I find any charges against the officers for Brianna Taylor, and that was not true. And the jurors said, no, we never received any charges that we could even consider. So he lied and the ship and then further he said, had

we received any charges, we would haven't died. They went further and said it so we were you just sitting U. I remember that day. It was the longest ride home I had ever experienced in my life, to only be an hour away from home. I remember it because it was a hundred and ninety four days. It was a hundred and ninety four days. And he carned me there and and pretended to care, pretended to have done this job,

pretended to have stood up for Brianna. And remember to Micase, he pretended to make He made you believe that the wanton endangerment charges were for Brianna, and I had to tell you in the parking lot that it was for the neighbors. He's he's very sick, and at this point, I don't understand how he doesn't get criminally charged as well. I agree, I mean, I think because what he did.

I mean, I feel like it should be of very like high importance to somebody that an Attorney general participated in the obstruction of justice as it relates to a woman being murdered. This is this should be a high level of of of like concern or something about this because this, imagine what they're doing in his office. Imagine

this was in front of the world. The public get got a chance to see and not and and and if it were not for Kristen clark uh the head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and of course her boss, the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, if it were not for them asking the tough questions, this would have gone unchecked. No one would know about what happened here except us, the people who they said,

we're crazy. Yeah, I mean, and I think it's important, Like when we talk about I want to go back on the charges a little bit. I do want the listeners to realize that importance when we talk about they could have simply stopped with the indictment by saying that these officers engaged in the willful deprivation of Brianna Taylor's constitutional rights. When they added that result in her death, that thump, that violating our civil rights up to a

whole another level. Like on the state charge, it's basically murder like so, so they could have stopped without adding results in Brianna Taylor's stuff. So the Department of Justice has specifically, you know, said and as they used the words, they've alleged that the conduct of these officers, and but for the conduct of these officers, Brianna would have been here. They had no right to be at her house in the first place. And that's the things that you know,

Daniel Cameron tried to skirt around. You get the the the social media or what do we call keyboard warriors trying to make allegations about Brianna Taylor and her lifestyle and and this and that. But now we know all of that was a lie. And that's what these officers did to cover up what they knew had been um had been uncovered, I asked, but I want to know from y'all, like, honestly, did y'all ever lose faith in

the system? Did you believe? Did you say to yourself, like, you know, I really don't believe that these people are gonna do right? But my daughter definitely look at Jenna and she like, yes, absolutely lost faith. Uh. First of all, I wasn't a system that we had much faith in to begin with. As black people, we've seen the system screw us over a number of times. We've seen this system fell us in so many ways. It's it's been unreal.

So to to start with little faith is one thing, and then to go through these different levels of things and to only lose what you never really had to begin with, was it's I don't I can't even explain the thing what you go through? You know, Um, I literally mentally I thought, I mentally started to lose my mind. That I thought that who am I to to go up against a system, as you know, to know that

this system don't care about us no right? And and who did I think I was to try and to fight that system, to try and and make them know that they messed with the wrong little black girl that day. And so yeah, I know, you know because for me, right, being so closely engaged in this case, right, and then also being engaged with George Floyd just you know, being engaged with them. Are Arebrey's mother? Right? And seeing actually seeing justice in those cases, right, I know those things

had to hurt. Like you, you're happy because you had grown bonds with these mothers and you're happy for them, but at the same time, you're crying to yourself, like what about my daughter? You know, what about justice for my daughter? So I know that must have been something for you to go through that, Like this biggest we think because it was for me. Every time that I

cheered and I was happy, I was like, damn. But Brihanna like we like and this is historically and I believe this is true based on what Being Crump said, like this is the first time justice for a black woman has actually been obtained at this level, you know, So this is this hopefully, you know, we'll get everything we're supposed to get, you know, the maximum charges, the convictions,

all the things that we're supposed to get. And it's set a presidents like like being Crump said that, and it's one of the best things I ever heard of him said. You know, he said he wants this country to value black lives. He wants to make it unsustainable for you to to be able to continue to take black life because it's gonna cause you too much and you're gonna lose your life's at the end of it.

So you know, I know it's a lot. I just wanted to say, your freedom, your freedom, and well, that's life. You ain't you ain't got life, You ain't got no freedom, You ain't really got no life. Wow. Well, I don't know what what would you say if if Lannia, if

Daniel Cameron was sitting here right now, what would you say? Okay, as the eightieth president of the National Bar Association, where black what is it eighty thousand black judges and lawyers are members, and you were just installed, which means that you are at the level right that he's at right in terms of your intellect, your ability, and your leader him the words out. That's what I'm talking about. He can't even he's not even close to the level um

the the attorneys that I represent. He's not even close to that level. Uh, and never could be. He can't raise the candle to to the attorneys that. You know, I've been mentored by that, I learned from that. I uh, you know, lead now, but continue to to educate me as well. He could never because he doesn't understand the importance of that. But I'm gonna talk about, you know, this concept of the justice system and having faith in

the justice system. And I know we talked about it, and I know your listeners get out of us talking about voting and the importance of voting. I know the justice system is not perfect, but you all have heard me say many a time it's the people behind the justice system and why it's so important for us to vote and make sure we're putting the right plate people in the right places so that we have the right prosecutors. Daniel Camera never should have been the Attorney general or

Kentucky in the first place. But when you look at people like Keith Ellison and Tish James and Kim Fox and people who are doing it and doing it right, uh, and have no qualms about Georgian officers when they need to want these elected leaders get help like they come at them with everything in their in their power. Merlin Moseby. We just saw what it was not re elected, UM. And so they come at them with everything that I might to make sure that they don't stay in those places.

But it's our responsibility to out there and vote and make sure that we're putting the right people in the right places for those places where the mayors picked the police chiefs. Make sure we're voting for those mayors. And in situations we know we don't always agree with President Baden, but if this was that other person's Department of Justice, we would not be here today. And I don't say that other person's name, so so no, we don't always

agree with them. And yes, he has a lot of work to do, uh as it relates to protecting black people in public safety and reimagining public safety. But we are here because he had enough faith and enough sense to put Kristin Clark. So so Kristin Clark as the Assistant Attorney General for the Division of Civil Rights, and that's where we're seeing the FEDS go after get involved in cases like George Floyd and Matt Aubrey, Brianna Taylor, UM. And so we just have to always keep that in mind.

We can't be once so one dimensional in our voting that we lose sight of things like that. And I was gonna just wanna say one more one thing. So there's a report out and it's it's it resurfaces every now and then that talks about the amount of white supremacists that are in law enforcement, right, And so we have to pray for Kristin Clark because keep in mind, people need to know the Department of Justice, an Attorney General, that's law enforcement. These are these are high level officers

of the law right. So imagine if they are if white supremacists are running rampant in police departments locally, they are also in the highest office in terms of in Washington, d C. And they don't like what happened today, right, they don't like what happened today. This is a big case.

Rihanna Taylor is probably one of the biggest cases outside of George Floyd and and and I and I will say, uh and George Floyd's family has sent so many messages today where they just crying out, right, because as you said, we built and we became family out here fighting and we we had to watch George Floyd be lynched in a video in order for him to get justice. There was no video for Brianna Taylor. So for this to have happened and with no video, this is huge, huge

for our movement because they it is. It is at the point where it's become a fetish watching black people be murdered for people to say, Okay, well maybe they deserve justice. I don't know. If you asked me the question, did I believe that it would ever happen, I don't know. I can't say that I did. I just can't say that I did, because the things that the pieces needed Amad are prey. There was a video finally that came out that showed these guys what did they do? They

tracked him and they murdered him. They shot him. We had to watch that in order for him to get justice. For Brianna to be a black woman, because we know the system gives two ships less about black women, to be a black woman, for Kenny to have fired a shot, they wanted to lean on that as much as they could and to hear Merrick Garland say today that this was a lawful gun owner, so he had every right to shoot that shot. And we should talk about Kenny and what he might be you know, experience. And I

know you talked to Kenny today. How was he feeling? What did he say to me? Girl? Uh? He was overwhelmed, he was he was full of emotion. He was you know, happy and sad. You know it's sad again to say like he almost lost his life over this. And you know that Hankinson was charged. In Hankinson's indictment, it included visitors to Brianna's home, So that is Kenny. It's it Brianna and her visitors, which is Kenny Walker because I was the only person that in her home that night.

So Kenny is also getting some symbols of justice today. Absolutely, you know what I wanted you to. I want you to talk about. They say there's a someone has already pleaded. Oh yeah, yeah, that's important. That's important because he was always just charged. Don't say that. But it's a lot different when somebody has already pleaded and admitted to what happened. What is that about? Yeah? So, so, um, Detective Kelly Gootlet she was, Um it's a junior members, detective. Don't

and don't quote me on that. I'm pretty sure she was detective, but the detective because that unit was everyone was detective, but she was like a junior member of

the team. So James and Sergeant Meni were Meni were definitely her superiors, UM and her And so when they said information, it was about as an information because they didn't need to indict her because she had already entered her her guilty plea prior to uh so, they didn't need to present it to her to a grand jury because she played guilty to conspiracy and in that she she she gave information involving knowing that when they submitted the search warrants to the judge to be signed that

it was feeling that that Brianna's was not true, that it was old information, and that they um basically fabricated information. Uh so to get her UM to get that warrant to make sure that a judge was signed up warrant. Then she talked about once it became public that they lied on the warrant, meaning that the postal inspector came and said, that's not true. I never said that Marcus Glover was receiving packages. There. They met in somebody's garage and began to plot and plan, so so Joshua Jaans,

Sergeant Meany and good Lit. They were meeting to figure out how are we going to cover this up? And remember they came out with that however long police report acting like they had seen you know, Brianna here and there and just really trying to push information out. So they intentionally withheld and fabricating information on the search warrant. But then they also when they were caught, trying to cover it up and figure out how they were going

to cover it up. And and so she she's she was cooperating and that's why she was So she played it's good. It's good a lot because that's been one of the main things people like, oh charges, And I'm like, it's a lot different when you already have somebody blowing the whistle. Somebody's admitting that they would mean they knew that they colluded and they were in, you know, in they would do it. They was involved, say, I mean and to a certain extent, you know, they're gonna have

to make sure that she's protected too. When we talk about Christen Clark or this or that, like, we gotta make sure that she's protected because we're gonna need her for that trail in the long run, right, um, And so she broke up. She knew that they were on her ass to see. That's the other thing, because we can't be giving these people brownies for first of all, doing what's right and waiting two years to do what was right, because she should have told the truth from

the beginning. But regardless, she did it today. But that's because she knew that they knew. We they she knew that the Feds knew, because we already understand that when the Feds come, they generally know what they're talking about, and they have all of the facts or much of it in front of them. And so she basically saved herself. So that's people just need to be clear about that. Let's not go start praising this lady like you know, she's some some hero. No, she was saying herself by

throwing the rest to them under the bus. And you know, if we had more officers who before it even gets to this point, would come forward because guess what, there are other people who may not have even been involved, but they knew there was lies. They knew there was a cover up. And we need law enforcement, the good cops that we hear about all the time to do the right thing and come forward because that that meeting in the garage. Those garages are all over the nation.

People are cops are meeting all over the country off you know, somewhere where they think nobody can hear and see, making up stories to to to to explain away the murder of black people. And I know y'all are t Thank y'all so much, but coming on safe. We love you all, man, and it's no more. It ain't gonna be eight hundred seventy five. You know, today is a whole new day they want again. We'll get a different

type of sleep tonight. You know, when you talk to Brianna a nighttime tonight, you're gonna say, we fought for you, baby, you know, and it's gonna be. We ain't all the way there, but it's definitely feel a lot closer than we were on the other side. That's a different feeling. Took us to. She took us somewhere we've never been even imagine even imagine a man, thank you, thank you, Yeah all right, thanks, yeah right, that's how we are once again. Shout out to Kristen Clark. Yeah, I got

to give our sister that's my sister. Listen, shout out to her. Shut up to everybody who did the right thing. You know. We went to the d o J a few months back, you know, and we presented four of petitions, you know, and we said we need y'all to open up investigation. We need you all to do the right thing, and you know, and she says she was working. She said, look, we're doing all. We're gonna we're going to look at this case and it's not going to just go unseen.

Please believe that in today. But you know, she could not say that there would be charges brought because she didn't know that. She said they would do that diligence, but she could not say the charges would be brought because she didn't know that. It took the local FBI to after, you know, after they investigated, to go to her and say, okay, we found things here, because otherwise

we would not be seeing this. I mean, you just have to be straight up about what has happened, because they're gonna be some people are gonna try to make it seem like because Kristen Clark is a black woman who came out of our movement, that she's just going around were charging the woman. When somebody goes in as that we did this wrong, and and we sat afterwards, we colluded and said, how are we gonna cover this

up like that? Ain't gonna do it, Chris. It's just the fact that Daniel Cameron didn't go find that lady who did this? Right? She didn't did she didn't look for that. He didn't look for that information anything exactly. And it was there. That information was there because we kept saying, how do you get a search for for somebody who has nothing to do with this situation? When when people kept saying that the postmaster said that he

never said that there was packages being said there. Right, So all of those things we knew that somebody had covered up. And if Dan you Cameron had did a little bit of his job, we wouldn't have to have the Feds get involved, you know. So that means the fens actually did their job. They did and that's and listen, she said, the only thing I can promise is that we're going to be fair and just and we're gonna

do our jobs. And that's all we want because we don't want your treatment, we don't want favors, we don't want any of that. We just want and justice department, a justice department that at least will look at these cases and we'll ask the right questions to get the answers that they need so that they can determine if someone's life was taken unjustice. That's what we want. We want, and that's what happened here to say to everybody, because this was all of us. This was a collective effort.

It was athletes, it was entertainers, it was rappers and musicians, it was time, it was grassroots organizations, it was regular individuals Louisville, the whole rereeway, everybody who said Brianna Taylor's name, who would not allow the world to just forget about a young black woman who died in her home. You know, this is this is what it looks like when you don't allow somebody to stop you from fighting, when you believe, when you constantly stand up. You know, a lot of us,

you know, until freedom, we moved back. We moved here to Louisville, you know, and we and we said to ourselves, we wasn't going home until they were justice for Brianna Taylor. And we've been here and back and forth ever since. You know, so there's a level of just level we can exhale somebody because there's trials and guess what these people are not gonna take and laying down the lawyers and they're gonna try to fight. Yeah. But for me, it was just that nobody would even acknowledge that they

took this woman's life. There was there was nothing of It was just us just saying, Yo, they killed this woman. Somebody killed that, somebody is responsible for her death, her

wrongful death. And you're telling us that the wolves are more important than Brianna Taylor, and you know, and today somebody said no, that she should still be alive, that what they did was wrong and it caused her death and she was The crazy part about it is that listening because we knew this already, but listening to Marrick gard and today they were not even supposed to be

at her house at all. They were not even supposed to be And so these faulty warrants, lies on the warrants, no knock warrants and all of this with it with these officers. Did they put this woman's life in danger before they even got to her house because they lied on a warrant knowing that it would bring armed officers to her house and therefore anything can happen. And look at what mess occurred that night. It's just so much.

It's scary though, because it feels like, imagine this, it's going on all over the country and they are lying, and the President of the United States, who has a Justice Department that's trying to do one job of making law enforcement accountable, he's over here. It's tone death. It's tone death for President Biden to be talking about adding a hundred thousand cops into a system that is criminal in the way in which it approaches public safety for

black people. And you're gonna put a hundred thousand more cops on the street because your position is, well, there's crime is violent, So what we're gonna what we're gonna do is there's the violent poky and we're gonna put violent officers Robb on top of them. It doesn't make sense. We need a hundred thousand peace keys. We need a hundred We need thirteen billion dollar investment in jobs, food safety.

That's what we need. Because we know the numbers show that communities who have resources, you know, you know, so you really, I mean, they have they have very little crimes. The poorest communities are the highest crime communities, and we

know that. So if you invest in the community, invest in education, you invest in resources, You're invest in after school programs, You're invest in you know, the food, so kids have good food, mental health, and be invested in the community, that the individuals who actually can intervene and stop the violence in the communities. We know that that is a a way better approach approach to public. So once again, man shout out to everybody who fall for

Brianna Taylor. If you said her name, if you watched, if you tweet it, if you did anything, this is a victory for you. And so yeah, got you. I'm not gonna always be right to me. It's not gonna always be wrong. We'll both fight until free peace peace. Listen to Street Politicians on the Black Effect Network on I Heart Radio and catch us every single Wednesday for the video version of Street Politicians or I Women Dot TV. That's how we own it.