It’s been 20 weeks since Breonna Taylor was shot to death in her own home. And the police officers who killed her have not yet been arrested.
“If you’re a lot online, you’ve probably seen Breonna Taylor become another meme,” Trevor Noah said Thursday night near the top of the 12-minute segment he devoted to his story. While people who maintain their “trend” name may be “well-intentioned,” the Daily program The host said “they essentially used his name as a key phrase.”
“Memes are not the best way to honor someone who has passed away,” he continued. “It is the reason Obama did not play at John Lewis’s funeral today.” So, instead of using pranks to examine his case, Noah decided to take viewers on a journey about his unnecessary life and death.
After interpreting a lengthy montage of what Taylor really was like as a person, Noah said: “It is really nice to see the news covering the death of a black person at the hands of the police using his good images and not that one image that makes us we all seem to have robbed 50 banks. ” He added that “you know that Breonna Taylor was a good person, because if she had walked once, the news would have been: ‘Frequent jay-walker and occasionally EMT Breonna Taylor was sadly killed by the police.”
Over the next few minutes, Noah recounted exactly how Louisville Metro Police Department officers ended up executing a so-called “do not hit order”, breaking into Taylor’s department and fatally shooting him eight times despite the fact that “they should never have been There first.
“They used false information and came with firearms, even though they knew she was not a threat,” he said. “At every step of the investigation, the police teased her. They made a million mistakes, which is a million more than any black person is allowed to make. “Then he corrected himself, saying that they were not” mistakes “at all, but” they just didn’t give a shit about it. ”
“It’s one thing to shoot someone ‘accidentally’ eight times,” added Noah. But leave her on the floor without medical attention? That is not an accident. That is a blatant disregard for the lives of blacks.
And while those police officers have yet to be charged for the murder, Noah noted that dozens of mostly black protesters in Louisville have been arrested. “Every day in the United States, we are reminded that there are different criminal justice systems, depending on who it is,” he said. “There is one for the rich and one for the poor. There’s one for whites, and there’s a different one for blacks. “
“And apparently there is also one for those who oppose police brutality and those who commit it,” he added.
Noah ended by telling viewers: “What happened to Breonna Taylor was not a system failure, but the system worked as intended. And that’s why people are fighting to change the system. ”
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