“We brought the FBI here,” 30-year-old activist Aaron Jordan told me this week. Aaron lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, died in March 2020 after being shot multiple times by police during a midnight raid on her apartment.
Along with the murder of George Floyd, Breonna’s killing sparked a national uprising against police brutality. More than two years ago, I first met Aaron at a rainy ‘no justice, no Halloween’ rally. I followed as he and a dozen or so activists marched the empty streets of Louisville to demand justice for Breonna’s death.
Since Joe Biden took office, the US Justice Department, under the leadership of attorney general Merrick Garland, has charged three police officers over their role in acquiring a search warrant for the raid on Breonna’s apartment. One of these officers, a former detective named Kelley Goodlet, admitted to falsifying the search warrant application. She is now the first officer to be convicted for the death of Breonna.
