On Friday, Missouri Representative Cori Bush stated that while at Congressional orientation, several Republican leaders had mistaken her to be Breonna Taylor.
While explaining that it was shocking that so many leaders didn’t know who she was, despite protests and national news coverage, Cori Bush also stated, “I am Breonna Taylor as far as I could be a Black woman murdered in my bed tonight, you know? But I am not Breonna Taylor,” Cori Bush expressed. “This Breonna Taylor [points to mask] was murdered in her bed at night and she does not have justice– murdered by the police.”
Bush, the first Black woman–Cori Bush– to be elected to Congress from Missouri, also stated “it hurts,” but she’s “glad they’ll come to know her name and story because of my presence here.”
Most recently, former officer Brett Hankison, who was involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, is being sued for sexual assault.
According to @courierjournal, a local attorney, Margo Borders, is accusing him of “willfully, intentionally, painfully and violently” sexually assaulting her after offering her a ride home from a bar in 2018. Hankison is said to have allegedly left the lawyer “physically injured and mentally battered.”
Former officer Jonathan Mattingly who was involved in the Breonna Taylor case told “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan that he felt “mostly frustration” as he watched months of protests across the country in reaction to Breonna Taylor’s death.
“There was so much misinformation out, all these false narratives,” Jonathan Mattingly said, explaining the public backlash surrounding him firing his weapon six times the night Breonna Taylor died from multiple gunshot wounds back in March.
As you recall, Breonna Taylor’s life was taken on March 13th, while serving a no-knock search warrant. No officers were charged for her murder. Brett Hankison, one of three officers who was involved in the Breonna Taylor case, has been charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for bullets that went into a neighboring occupied apartment.
