Breonna Taylor’s mother says ‘the system failed Breonna’

‘Miss Breonna Taylor’: An honorific gives feeble cover to the system’s indifference to a young black woman’s life.

Wednesday afternoon, Daniel Cameron (R-Ky.) was standing before the news cameras, and therefore the country, to explain the grand jury’s decision in her death. Speaking precisely, calmly and with a measured cadence from behind a lectern adorned with the golden mark of the Commonwealth, the prosecutor wore a suit with a neatly folded white pocket square, along with a dark face mask which he removed as he began to speak. This Black man was accompanied by White colleagues who wore face masks, too. It was a tableau of professional propriety, civic responsibility and racial bliss.

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