The justice system failed Breonna Taylor, says Tamika Palmer, the mother of the emergency room technician whom police shot and killed in her own apartment in March. She says Kentucky’s attorney general was not up to the job of achieving justice for Taylor.
“I never had faith in Daniel Cameron to begin with,” Palmer said, via a statement that was read aloud by her sister, Bianca Austin, during a news conference Friday at Louisville’s Jefferson Square Park. Palmer stood by, weeping, as Austin voiced the words that Cameron is too inexperienced and had failed her daughter by shifting responsibility to a grand jury.
“I was reassured Wednesday of why I have no faith in the legal system, in the police, in the law,” Palmer said in the statement. “They are not made to protect us Black and brown people.”
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