Photo credit: Tom Jenz
"Shot and Killed"
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old aspiring nurse, was killed last March after being shot eight times by Louisville police officers. We should say her name. We should also say the names of other police shootings: George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Dontre Hamilton, and Michael Brown to name a few.
Pictured here is the mural sympathizers created around Locust and Holton. Yet are these symbolic actions doing any good to draw attention to inner city violence, the animosity between police and Black citizens locked into their neighborhoods due to prejudice and fear?
But a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor during a drug raid gone wrong. The two officers who fired their weapons at the Black woman were justified in using force to protect themselves.
Central City Stories is a collection of visual narratives from Milwaukee's central city by writer and fine arts photographer Tom Jenz. You can see more of his work at TomJenzAmerica.com.
