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Justice for Omari Cryer

By DerbyRose May 25, 2022Issues, Radicalized Republicans

Today, President Biden signed a long-overdue Executive Order on policing. Unfortunately, it came five days too late to protect Omari Cryer, the 25-year old Black man who was gunned down by US Marshals in Louisville, Kentucky's West End Friday morning. The night before, VICE News aired a damning expose about the corruption, theft and cover-ups taking place within the Louisville Metro Police Department, including new insight into what happened the night Breonna Taylor was murdered, and more unanswered questions. It's been a busy news cycle since we learned the results of our local primary races last Tuesday, which I recap…

Justice for Breonna Taylor

By DerbyRose May 19, 2022Issues

Cover photo is from Aaliyah's Lost Mind: A no-knock situation, available on Amazon. UPDATE: The morning after I made post, following the most damning of VICE's two-part series aired, US Marshals shot and killed a Black man in the back and left his dead body laying in an alley in the hot sun, with no answers for family members, for hours. A similar "power play" was used on our community two years prior when the National Guard was brought in during our peaceful protests and one of them shot and killed local business owner David McAtee, and is too eerily…