Kentucky’s only Black female legislator arrested on felony rioting charge at Breonna Taylor protest

As the only Black female representative in the Kentucky Capitol, state Rep. Attica Scott (D) took action after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police raiding her home in March. In August, Scott proposed Breonna’s Law, a bill that would end no-knock warrants statewide. And when a grand jury decided not to indict the officers in Taylor’s death, Scott joined hundreds of protesters in the streets of Louisville.

On Thursday night, Louisville police arrested Scott along with a handful of other protesters near First Unitarian Church and the Louisville Free Public Library, which had allegedly been set on fire, according to a police report reviewed by WAVE. The state representative received a felony charge of first-degree rioting and two misdemeanors for failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. The paper reported Scott was released from jail Friday morning.

Louisville police arrested at least 24 people Thursday night, the department said in a Facebook post. In a news conference on Thursday, interim police chief Robert Schroeder said authorities arrested 127 people on Wednesday night.

The protests began on Wednesday after the three officers involved in the Taylor’s fatal shooting were not indicted in her death. A grand jury in Jefferson County, Ky., instead indicted Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police detective who was fired in June, with three charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree. The verdict meant the former detective endangered the lives of Taylor’s neighbors by firing the rounds.

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Slaves (and indentured) were taught how to read select Bible passages (and permitted to draw pictures) because it was essential to conversion to Christianity from Islam or paganism. Slaves (and indentured) were generally not taught to write (writing being a trait of upper classes at the time), although Jupiter Hammon published a poem in 1761 and Phyllis Wheatley published a book of poems in 1773. Laws preventing both reading and writing were passed around 1830, but LA, PA and NYC offered schooling from the 1780’s.

The first laws against writing were passed in (spanish) SC in 1740 and in VA in 1741 in response to the 1739 Stono Rebellion and the “panic of NY” in 1741 (following a long list of rebellions beginning in 1663, and those in 1672, 1687, 1691, 1708, 1711, 1720, 1712, 1729, 1730 and 1738).

Laws that banned teaching reading were passed in 1830, 1839 and 1841 in response to the continued rebellions of 1764, 1793, 1796, 1800, 1805, 1811, 1816, 1820, the 1829 Camden revolt that resulted in the burning of 85 buildings, the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion, 1835 TX rebellion, and the 1839 and 1841 ship rebellions of the Amistad and Creole . MO and TX passed literacy laws as late as 1847 and 1860. (John Meachum responded to MO 1847 laws by buying a riverboat and holding school in the middle of the Mississippi river.)

These laws weren’t arbitrary. They were in part, a means towards survival and to calm the unrest and rebellious nature fomented by abolitionist leaflets and put an end to roving gangs of slaves that periodically harassed and killed landowners. If slaves couldn’t read about other rebellions, or correspond insurrection plans to others, or forge their own passes and freedom papers, it was thought calm could come to the land. In spite of these laws, wives of slave owners and especially young children, passed on reading and writing to slave children, who taught their parents in secret. So while a writing ban became more common from 1830 on, by 1865 it is estimated that at minimum 10% of slaves could write and most could read at probably a third-grade level.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery-iv-slave-rebellions
http://slaverebellion.info/index.php?page=united-states-insurrections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_during_the_slave_period_in_the_United_States

Her boyfriend used a weapon with intent to harm the police. He is directly responsible for her death. Maybe if she hadn't decided to "shack up" with a drug dealer she'd still be alive.

Her boyfriend shot at whoever was breaking in, he didn't know it was police, and in fact stated that he thought her druggie ex-boyfriend was the one breaking in. Which is why, last I heard, all charges against him have been dropped. He has no prior convictions, and nothing has tied him to any kind of drug dealing/using yet.

The ex-boyfriend was the one dealing drugs, and supposedly they broke up a while ago, but she was still "hanging out" with him and possibly still involved in his drug activities.

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