While You Were Sleeping

Say her name. Breonna Taylor. This hit me different. She tried to make a difference. Her apartment was raided at an ungodly hour. This young lady was shot and killed in her home. In. Her. Home. Baffling to me is that the person they were looking for was in their custody. Unfortunately,  too many young lives lost to violence turn into hashtags. So many hashtags that it becomes a habit that drifts into memory. But this hits differently. Breonna Taylor worked two jobs as an ER Technician, trying to become a nurse. For those who are working during this pandemic, can you imagine how tired you are after your shift? For essential workers, can you imagine the stress of having two positions in a high intensity filled emergency rooms? How many of us have fallen asleep while watching movies? Put yourself in her shoes. She is weary from working and needed to ease her mind. Instead, police break into your home unannounced and causing damage. Standing your ground doesnt work when you're against "trained officers " who don't follow their own protocols. A woman who was unarmed caught 6 bullets and bled to death in her home. Then, her murder is swept under the proverbial mat for over 6 months. Every day, more details are released about this murder we have.that opens the wounds. This young lady looks like anyone sister, cousin, or best friend. And her life was cut short of the potential she showed. The city paid her family $12M for wrongful death. But that's not enough money for missing her daily in their lives. Collectively, we miss her in our lives too. So how has her murder affected you? What are you doing to express your feelings? Have you lost a loved one tragically like this? How are you coping with it? Please share your comments below. So as we visit more sides to her story, let's memorialize her respectfully.  #sayhername #breonnataylor