How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (9/28)
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23 Wake-Up Wednesdays Virtual Vigils Online / Big Four Bridge Free | Noon-12:30 p.m., 5-5:40 p.m. Every week for 12 weeks, faith leaders of various traditions plan to host a “gathering of intentions, silence and spoken reflections” on Facebook Live and Zoom at noon. They’ll also be hosting in-person, silent vigils at the…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (9/25)
If You’re Protesting Protests in Louisville are expected to continue throughout the weekend following the decision by Attorney General Daniel Cameron to not charge any police officers in Breonna Taylor’s killing (and only one for endangering her neighbors). Until Freedom is holding a march starting at 5 p.m. in Jefferson Square Park, and on Saturday,…
Notes from Wednesday’s protests: Violence may be the national headline, but it’s not the entire story
The crowd of protesters gathered in a circle on the outskirts of Jefferson Square Park. They knelt for a moment of silence for Breonna Taylor, just hours after it was announced that no police officers would be charged for her death, and only one for wanton endangerment. A little while later, a man spoke about…
Photo Set: Grand jury verdict brought protesters to The Highlands, led to arrests
After a grand jury indicted a single officer on three charges of wanton endangerment in the Breonna Taylor case on Wednesday, protesters began marching from Jefferson Square Park in the early afternoon. The crowd of hundreds reached The Highlands, heading down Bardstown Road, before the police cut them off just before Eastern Parkway. The police…
Photo Set: The Breonna Taylor decision brings tears, hugs and anger
Some cried. Some hugged each other. The protesters holding Jefferson Square Park for more than 100 days had gotten their answer — no charges would be brought in Breonna Taylor’s death — and they were angry. After listening the grand jury announcement that only a single officer would be indicted and not on charges relating…
No one will face criminal charges for killing Breonna Taylor, and many questions remain
Former Louisville police Officer Brett Hankison is charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing wildly from an outside patio window, breaching a neighboring apartment. None of the other two who fired into her apartment were charged, and Hankison’s charge is not related to her death. Her next-door neighbors, whose apartments were pierced by…
McConnell should get Trump to ‘shut up’ about science
When I was a child growing up in one of the poorest counties in the nation, with one of the smallest percentages of college graduates of any county, I was lucky. I had parents who had been to college and knew something about public health and had even worked in it. Even the less fortunate…
Savage Love: Missed Connections
Q: Married guy here. I’m 33, the wife is 31. Our fifth anniversary is next month, but we’ve been together for almost eight years. We’ve recently both come out to each other as bi. She tried to tell me a long time ago, whereas I came to the realization only recently. We’re both interested in new sexual…
Parlour’s pizzas hold up all the way home
I’ve been doing my small part to keep local restaurants alive during the pandemic by giving them my takeout business, but there’s a problem with that: I really hate eating lunch on my lap in the car. I want to take the food home, dammit! I want to plate it nicely and enjoy it in…
Louisville’s rich musical history of saying: Fuck the system
In LEO last week, Scott Recker wrote about local music that has come out this year in response to the socio-political upheaval in Louisville and across the nation. As that article mentioned, the Louisville DIY music scene has a long and storied history of standing against oppression of all varieties, including music ranging from punk…
After the Breonna Taylor settlement ‘Our people demand rest, joy, solidarity, interdependence and freedom’
The city of Louisville made a record, $12 million settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor. The agreement includes police reforms but does not indicate the city admits wrongdoing when police officers broke down her door ostensibly looking for drug money or drugs and found none. The state attorney general is deciding whether charges will…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (9/23)
Did the bullet hit his brain? | Thorn Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, the cop injured in the Breonna Taylor shooting, sent an email to coworkers, saying: “I know we did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night,” FBI agents aren’t cops and “would piss their pants”… and more bullshit. No remorse for his part in killing…
Democrats took Republicans’ bait
Louisville Metro Council, the Democratic majority in particular, needs to shore up its own leadership and credibility before it is in any position to criticize — or express “no confidence” in — Mayor Greg Fischer. Last week, the Metro Council voted 22 to 4 on a resolution expressing no confidence in Fischer and outlining recommendations…
