65: Savala Trepczynski on Breonna Taylor and the elusive nature of racial justice

25/09/2020 15 min
65: Savala Trepczynski on Breonna Taylor and the elusive nature of racial justice

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Episode Synopsis

When Savala Trepczynski, the director of the social justice center at UC Berkeley, first heard the decision in the Breonna Taylor case — that only one of three police officers involved in Taylor's killing in March was indicted on charges of reckless endangerment — a familiar feeling sunk in."The fact of the charge is upsetting, disappointing, angering — all of those things," said Trepczynski. "And so, I felt the exhaustion of forbearance and abiding and feeling again and again that even when you get justice, it’s kind of a half step. It’s a measure of justice. It’s not the whole thing."And she was reminded of a murder so similar to Taylor's that happened in her own family — to her great-great-grandmother.Read the story and see photos on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/25/fiat-vox-savala-trepczynski-on-breonna-taylor-and-racial-justice Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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