WEBVTT - 071523 Was Breonna Taylor’s Death a Conspiracy? (Part 1) 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.880 Broadcasting from the Hip Hop Weekly Studios. I'd like to 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.800 welcome you to another episode of Civic Cipher. I am 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.240 your host, Ramsey's job, so. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:15.480 Yeah, that is Ramsey's job. I'm still cute. But the energies, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.040 you know what I mean. My energy is real high today. Good. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.919 I know sometimes our show doesn't allow for that, but 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.360 I don't know if you can hear it through the mic. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.560 I'm smiling while I'm speaking to you today, and I'm 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.919 noticeably excited about the ability to smile while doing this 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.720 show that we do well. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.760 I hope that you are able to smile a little 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.440 longer because you do have a crazy show. My best, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.240 you have a crazy show lined up for you today. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.800 First things first, we're going to be talking about Breonna Taylor. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.400 You might remember in twenty twenty a. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.600 Lot of the protests, of course, are about George Floyd 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.960 in that particular injustice, but another name that was just 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.760 as big, an incident that was just as pivotal was 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.360 the death of Breonna Taylor. Well, as it turns out, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.560 there is a lot more details about her death coming 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:10.080 to light. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.160 And acts that weren't aware of. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:13.920 Right, and we're we're definitely going to need to talk 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.840 about that. And we're also going to be spending some 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:25.720 time talking about a video that we were sent of 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:31.080 an older black woman getting attacked by a police officer 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:36.040 outside of a grocery store. It's been shared lots of 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.760 times on social media. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:38.800 Definitely a viral thing. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.440 Yeah yeah, and we couldn't get to it last week 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.400 on the show, so we're doing our best to play 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.000 catch up. And I promise we talk about viral videes 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.560 all the time, but this one is kind of a 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.160 little different. We're talking to older black women at a 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.560 grocery store for something, and of course she didn't commit. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.680 So that and so much more to stay tuned for. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.880 But first and foremost, let's start off on a positive. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.240 How about some Abney excellence, shall we? 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:03.560 We shall? 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.040 Today's Ebony Excellence is brought to you by Major Threads 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:12.359 for the finest in men'swear. Check majorthreads dot com. All right, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.600 we're talking about a guy named Nicholas Perkins. Graduate of 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.920 both Howard University and Fayetteville State University. He's made history 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.799 as the new owner of the international fud Ruckers restaurant brand. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.760 He was formerly one of the company's largest franchisees, but 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.760 now has full ownership of all ninety two of the 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.919 company's restaurants in the United States, Canada, Panama, and Mexico. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.680 Perkins closed the deal for approximately eighteen point five million 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.920 dollars through his affiliate Black Titan Franchise Systems, LLC. He 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.640 told Essence magazine, quote, I always wanted to become a 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.959 part of this iconic brand. I just didn't realize that 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.160 one day I'd end up owning it unquote. Perkins, who 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.400 was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, obtained his Bachelor of 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:01.040 Science degree in business administration and management, has an honorary 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:06.000 doctorate from Fayetteville State University in HBCU. He later went 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.920 to Howard University, also in HBCU, where he earned his 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:15.680 Master a Business Administration degree. So again, on this show, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.200 we do our best to celebrate any excellence. There's not 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.760 a lot of places that you might encounter a story 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:23.040 like this. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.200 Nicholas Perkins. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.840 You are a champion bro exactly exactly, and it is 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.440 our pleasure to bring some attention to what it is 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.400 that you've done, to shine some light on what it 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.000 is that you're doing, and to highlight you as an 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.640 example of any excellence, and of course we definitely applaud 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.720 black ownership. We support black businesses here and we know 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.360 that a lot of our listeners do as well. So 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.360 where we can take the time to highlight someone who's 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.880 doing something amazing, we'll always try to do that. At 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.680 present and looks like for the foreseeable future, fud Ruckers 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.640 is now black owned, So do your best to support. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:00.920 All. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.800 Right now, we do have a video. It's on the desktop, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.840 so make should get that ready. But first, before we 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.880 get to this video, I want to make sure that 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:17.160 we paint a picture for those who may have forgotten 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:23.560 or who maybe you never knew about Brianna Taylor. But 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.520 the quick and dirty version of the story is that 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:34.280 Brianna Taylor was killed in her apartment sleeping, or I 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.720 believe it was her boyfriend's apartment. She was sleeping and 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.760 the police just came and shot up the place and 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:48.640 she died. And the general attitude of the police was 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.040 that it was very cavalier and it was just kind 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.799 of like, you know, that's the cost of doing business. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:58.840 And then they tried to paint her as sort of 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:04.120 a villain by her proximity to her boyfriend they tried 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.039 to suggest that the boyfriend was somehow involved in some 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.719 nefarious activities, and on and on, and then you know, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.600 later the stories came out that she was a first responder, 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.280 that she I believe she was an EMT. Was yes, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.320 So where do we have to use here? She was 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:27.479 an EMT if I'm not mistaken, and just a normal, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:36.880 upstanding citizen and the police ended her life, and we 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:43.240 as a people, alongside our allies, pushed back against the 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.880 idea that this was just sort of collateral damage, this 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.080 is just kind of the cost of police doing business, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.160 that this is okay. You know, you got to break 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.200 a few eggs to make an omelet that sort of 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:57.640 attitude that was kind of being pushed by police and 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:03.960 then bolstered by you know, right wing pundits, etc. That 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:10.159 we're trying to again paint Breonna Taylor as somehow criminal 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.839 or criminal adjacent by you know, her relationship to a 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.200 man who was not proven to be a criminal at all. Now, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.080 now that you're caught up to speed, I need to 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.560 let you know that ever since that took place, since 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.120 the police you shot at her house, there's been all 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.320 kinds of crazy stories. Of course, the police start with 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:39.560 their initial story, which suggests that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend was 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.720 the first one to shoot, prompting them to want to 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:42.279 shoot back. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:51.839 Please. This is America, right, the Second Amendment touting United 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.880 States of America to have a gun in case there's 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.320 intruders in your home so you can defend your family, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.560 America justifying that this man was murdered mm hm because 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.000 he shot first when someone broke into his home and 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.560 that's why he deserved to die. Yeah, okay, I just 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.680 wanted to make sure we're talking about the same same 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.920 qu You're saying people, same people making the same argument, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.200 contradicting the okay, never mind. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.200 Right, and this and this is where the conversation started 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:23.600 with should police be using no knock warrants? I've covered 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.600 tons of stories about police using no knock warrants to 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.239 bust into people's house, Black people's houses mostly, and black 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.960 people sometimes they live in rough neighborhoods, whatever their whatever 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:35.800 their situation is. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:42.360 I'm sure the deltatistics on the on who they use 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.160 no knock warrants. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.200 You would be largely skewed toward black and brown people. Yeah, sure, sure, absolutely, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.760 Now for these folks that might live in a rougher neighborhood, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.080 they might have a gun, they might be very on 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.560 edge about someone breaking into their house during a home 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.160 but any like that. So imagine someone kicking in the door, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.080 even if they say it's the police, if you don't 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.480 know for certain, all you know is there's a bunch 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.080 of voices and movement in your. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.760 House, especially when there's nothing that stops anyone from saying 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.000 exactly that. Exactly exactly my point. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.080 So, you know, there's been a lot of pushback against 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.080 the use of no knock warrants, and this was one 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.160 instance that kind of brought that to you know, public consciousness. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.960 Add to that being at home with your lady sleep. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:28.960 Yeah. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.200 So that was the life of Breonna Taylor. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.760 Unfortunately, like so many people on this show, we know 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:40.080 her mostly for having died, not for the life that 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:45.000 she lived. And that's just an unfortunate reality for a 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:50.000 lot of families that their children are known for being killed. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:50.880 I was. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:56.360 I was talking to Emmett Till's cousin recently, and you know, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.560 she and I had a moment. For those that you 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:04.160 know follow our work on Black Information Network Daily podcast, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.320 we had a moment where you know, basically I had 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.320 to realize that emmittt Til was not the person who 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.720 helped change uh and and add fuel to the civil 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.400 rights movement. It was his mother that did that. But 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.080 we associate mm Attil with the civil rights activist because 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.040 he's a large figure. But the only reason he's a 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.439 large figure is because he died and that's what activated 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:31.120 his mother. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.240 And because he was murdered. More specify, he didn't become 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.680 he was dragged and he didn't drown notorious and iconic 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.360 because he died. He was murdered. Yeah, it was a 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.920 manner in which he was murdered. And the lack of reason, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:54.080 the lack of actual justifiable reason, the obvious racist reasons 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.480 as to why he was murdered, his age, when the why, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.520 the where are the reasons? Why know his name? Unfortunately 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.199 not for what could have been a wonderful life lived. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:08.400 Yeah, and you know, the one sobering thought that often 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.960 pops into my head after we talk about these things 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.319 is that these people lived the last moments of their 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:23.199 life in horror and fear, maybe crying, screaming, afraid they 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.400 don't know what's going on, you know, in pain, absolutely sure. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.360 And then it's their life is over, and so they 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:36.360 never they died, their last moments were perhaps feeling like 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.560 this is a senseless, senseless death. They don't get to 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.720 see what comes on the other side of it, which is, Okay, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.800 this galvanized a nation and a people and allies to 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:54.520 change things. But anyway, I digress Rihanna Taylor. There's been 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.040 kind of like rumors circulating since Rihanna Taylor's death that 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.600 there was more to that story, and we were led 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.679 to believe obviously the police told their version of the story. Again, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.199 it's suggesting that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot first and all 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:14.640 this sort of stuff. And since then, you know, there's 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.559 been a trial and all this sort of stuff, and 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.600 all these things are now coming out and we are 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.880 starting to see how deep this goes. And you know, 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:30.280 we entitled this segment was Rihanna Taylor's death a conspiracy? 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.760 But I don't want that to in any way suggest 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.160 that it's a conspiracy theory because the sources that we're 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.680 pulling from today are exceptionally credible sources. We're going from 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:47.000 Yahoo to uh, what is this CNN to I think 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.680 we have Washington posts, you know, some some credible sources here. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.079 But before we go any further, let's play the video 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.240 just to kind of help bring you up to speed, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.240 and then we'll fill in the gaps. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.280 So it took everyone two years to figure out that 0:11:59.320 --> 0:11:59.800 I was right. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.480 Earlier today, I spoke with the family of Breonna Taylor morning. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.080 They were informed for the Justice Department's charge or Currant 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.760 and former Louisville Metro Police Department officers federal crimes related 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:10.600 to miss Taylor's death. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.280 The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, started at hit squad to 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.080 harass people of color and poor neighborhoods. The house that 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.319 Briana Taylor was renting from was sitting in the middle 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.240 of a gentrification project that the mayor's developer buddies need 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.040 to get rid of before they could start construction. Software. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.640 Cops arrested in an actual drug dealer ten miles and 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.280 ten minutes after they faked a search warrant to god 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:30.480 harassed berwon to Taylor. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.200 Those alleged crimes include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.839 use of force, and obstructional offenses. We alleged that the 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.920 defendants knew their actions and fols of buying the Epidavid 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.080 could green a dangerous situation. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.280 Yeah, the dangerous situation was getting brion and Taylor's shot 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.400 so the city could buy her house for a dollar? 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.840 What you thought I made that number of a. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.560 Lawful objective justifying the use of deadly force. Defendant Henkerson 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.880 traveled away from miss Taylor's doorway to the side of 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.240 the building and fired ten shots into Breonna Taylor's apartment 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.640 through a bedroom window in a sliding lads store that 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.479 were both covered with lions and curtains. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:03.719 Yeah. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.199 Remember all those Blue Lives Matter people talking about. Oh, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.720 Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot one round first, and then all 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.000 the cops were returning fire. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:11.360 That's not what happened. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.360 One cop went to the side of the house and 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.560 emptied a mag into a window. Yeah, your clowns are 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.079 trying to be like, oh the cops are scared for 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.240 their lives, trying to give them qualified immunity when one 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.160 dude literally went to. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:22.800 The side of the house to do a hit job. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:31.720 Okay, so obviously there's a lot there. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.200 Okay, Now you couldn't see that. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:39.720 The gentleman that was speaking there, he has all his sources. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.079 So that was a video that we got from TikTok 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.960 and it just kind of condenses everything that we're talking 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:54.559 about today, but it critically has all of the sources 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.280 in the video. Now we have the video up on 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.720 our social media. It's at Civic Cipher if you want 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.600 to check that out, and then of course you can 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.240 check each of those sources themselves. This is one I 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.320 kind of wanted to make sure that we covered our 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.840 bases as much as we could because this is starting 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.800 to get into conspiracy, which is indeed what he was 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.800 talking about. This is what the charges are for the 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.680 police officers involved, and it goes even higher up than that. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.320 There's developers, there's you know, elected officials, et cetera. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:31.720 And the loss of life of Breonna Taylor's is just 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.080 kind of I don't think that they expected that They 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.400 expected it to just kind of be something that they 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.720 were able to do more or less quietly and didn't 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:43.200 go from there. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.760 So well that that assumption is based on the status quo, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:51.080 right right, say this unassuming black person creates some suspicion 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.720 around their character, criminalize them, it's a no story, and 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.360 it goes away. They just had really, really bad timing. Yeah, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.000 they decide to do this at a moment where most 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.680 of the world cared way more than they usually would have. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:10.160 Sure, and then at the end of the day, them 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.720 buying that house for a dollar was kind of the 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.920 nail in the coffin. It's what sort of sealed the deal. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:18.680 Right. So this, this. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.920 Whole plan was in motion, and there are people that 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.680 look at this and be like, oh, there's no way 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.680 that that's true. Allow me to further paint this picture. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.200 So first thing, let me start. I'm going to go 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.360 back to July twenty twenty. You remember I said that 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:38.120 there's been these sorts of whispers surrounding Breonna Taylor's death 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.640 going all the way back to her death. So this 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.240 is July twenty twenty, So this was three years ago, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.920 almost to the day. All right, this comes from CNN 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:52.360 dot Com. The headline reads, warrant in fatal encounter between 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.640 Breonna Taylor and police was linked to gentrification plan, families 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.000 lawyers claim, okay claim, So this is what they thought 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.520 at the time. They couldn't prove. They were still waiting 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.000 to prove this, all right. The police raid of Breonna 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.160 Taylor's home that ended with police killing her was connected 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.560 to a political plan to clear a Louisville, Kentucky street 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.800 for a real estate development. According to an amended lawsuit 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.240 filed by Taylor's mother, I want to make a correction here. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.840 I'm seeing that this is Breonna Taylor's house, and I 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.560 thought this was her boyfriend's house. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.280 There's been a lot of stuff about this. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.200 Case, and it's been some time, but I want to 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.280 make sure I was clear about that, all right. The 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.880 amended lawsuit, filed Sunday in Jefferson's Circuit Court and obtained 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.720 by CNN, said her death was quote the culmination of 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.200 radical political and police conduct. Police were used in an 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.000 effort to vacate homes on Elliott Avenue for a quote 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:52.920 high dollar real estate development including new homes, a cafe, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.880 and an amphitheater. A cafe and an amphitheater. According to 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.360 the lawsuit, one of the primary roadblocks to this unit 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.920 and the real estate development project was an ex boyfriend 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.160 of Breonna Taylor, who rented a home on Elliott Avenue. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.160 The lawsuit of leedgis okay, so I take it back. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.720 I guess it was her boyfriend's home again. There's lots 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:15.399 of stuff here, But I wanted to bring that up 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:20.080 because it illustrates how far back this goes. I believe 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.320 that she was killed in that might have been March 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.359 of twenty twenty. If I'm not mistaken. Why am I 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:34.959 thinking March in any case, Yeah, he's looking that up 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.000 for me, So I want to make sure I got 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:41.600 the red. But these rumors started to come out in July. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.800 This article I just read from it is from July 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.760 of twenty twenty, so that's not nothing, and it can't 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:52.840 be based on nothing. March perfect, Okay, all right, now 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.439 I want to move on. So this is from August 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.040 of twenty twenty two, So again, this was almost a 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.720 year ago, and this comes. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.679 From Yahoo News slash Blavity. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.720 All right. The headline reads, A cop is accused of 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.280 falsifying search warrant used in raid of Breonna Taylor's home. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.040 Now her death is being connected to a housing development project. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.000 In the years since the police killing of Breonna Taylor, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.480 the twenty six year old woman who was fatally shot 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.920 after a raid on her Louisville, Kentucky home, questions about 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.920 the origin of the search warrant have dominated conversations. Now 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.560 the community is learning that it wasn't how the warrant 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.720 was carried out, but why it was issued in the 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:39.720 first place. Three new officers, Kelly Hannah Goodlett, Joshua James, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.240 and Kyle Meaney, have been charged with federal crimes and 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:49.560 connection to the killing of Taylor, including unlawful conspiracies, obstruction offenses, 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.840 use of excessive force, and federal civil rights offenses. As 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.880 the Department of Justice previously confirm, Now again, I want 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.639 you to for anybody that's skeptical, anybody that thinks that 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.240 I'm making this stuff up, check our social media at 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.199 Civic Cipher on Instagram. Okay, the videos there, all the 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.960 sources are cited. Okay, and you can look this up yourself. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:17.879 We're not imagining this unfair treatment of our people. We 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.720 don't make this stuff up. We don't want to just 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.560 keep complaining about the way things are, but we have 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.720 to speak up for ourselves because we deserve better than this. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.760 This shows the cavalier attitude not just of police, but 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.159 of developers in big business and even elected officials to 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:41.439 just cast aside black, brown, marginalized, poor, LGBTQIA, plus you 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:49.159 name it, individuals often enough for more profit and for 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:54.320 people that prioritize profit over the gift, the beauty, the 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:55.800 sanctity that is human life. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.760 Before you move on, I don't want people to think 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.960 that that's a small number of people. It's a lot 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:08.760 of people. There are so many people right that prioritize profit. Yeah, 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:14.800 and the American dream of capitalists, of capitalists superiority over 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:22.400 basic human life, basic human dignity. Their profit and ability 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.280 to make money is more important than your life. And 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.359 enough people agree with them that they can do things 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.040 like this, and mostly there'd be no repercussions for it. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.040 So watch this Q. Okay, you're listening to me, and 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.120 you have this conversation right now. I want you as 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:44.320 you listen and ask yourself a question. Okay, I want 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:51.160 you to ask yourself if this is okay? Like morally, 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.800 I want you to ask yourself, is it okay to 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.160 be upset with black people for speaking up? I want 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.919 you to ask yourself if this is the story that 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.879 you're hearing about, how many stories are you not hearing about? 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.440 You can look at data and statistics and so forth, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.760 but oftentimes those don't show the real story like this 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:23.040 this woman is our life is over black lives matter. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.520 It is the minimum. We didn't say black money matters. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.880 We didn't say black parties matter, we. 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:35.720 Didn't say black happiness, we didn't say black freedom, we 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:43.359 didn't say black rights. Oh man lives yeah, Man, isn't 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:43.840 that crazy? 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.040 And you know when we push back and we have 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.720 examples like this and we say, hey, listen, you know, look, 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:52.800 there's a lot of stuff going on. There's a lot 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:58.399 of moving pieces here. There is this immense machine that 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.240 takes all these different components to work, and every single 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:05.520 component is entirely apathetic about the well being and indeed 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.680 the lives of black, brown, marginalized LGBTQI plus you name 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.479 it people. And in particular, I mean we do civic cipher. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.840 We talk about black people because often enough we're at 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.400 the very bottom, with one hundred percent of the weight 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.159 right on our necks. And so again, this isn't something 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.560 where it's we like to complain. And when we show 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:29.800 the proof and we cite the sources, people say, oh, 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:31.920 that's a one off. No, this is this is how 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:35.119 you can peer into the data that you have access to, 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.280 the government data dot gov. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.960 Okay, that shows uh. 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:46.719 Outcomes with respect to sentencing with respect to police misconduct, 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:51.040 with respect to police brutality, police killings, and every other 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:55.800 thing in society. You're talking about how much people get paid, 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:00.320 healthcare outcomes, environmental racism, like all sorts of things, com 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:01.440 all the battlefronts. 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.400 Okay, now I want to read a little bit more 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:04.679 here before we move on. 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:10.120 All right, Goodlett, James and Meinie falsified information to get 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.360 the warrant, alleging that Taylor was receiving illegal packages at 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:18.280 the residents, despite allegedly knowing that information was false. The 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:22.520 Washington Post reports they are also being accused of covering 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:26.360 up their activity, along with the police department being connected 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:31.760 to the Elliott Avenue Project. According to WLKY, the Elliott 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:36.199 Avenue project is a development project. A document describing the 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:40.400 project alleges that the neighborhood's social and urban fabric has 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.440 deteriorated over recent decades due to high levels of disinvestment 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:50.080 in crime. It also states that the Department of I 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:55.879 think this is Development Louisville. Louisville's Office of Community Development, 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.720 the city's entity behind the project, in partnership with Keeping 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:03.879