Federal Investigators Find Louisville Police Routinely Call Black People ‘Boy,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Monkeys’

A review of the Louisville Metro Police Department by the U.S. Department of Justice found that officers conducted searches based on invalid warrants and illegally carried out raids without knocking or making an announcement. The post Federal Investigators Find Louisville Police Routinely Call Black People ‘Boy,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Monkeys’ appeared first on The Washington Informer.

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Federal Investigators Find Louisville Police Routinely Call Black People ‘Boy,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Monkeys’
Anacostia artist Yetunde Sapp painted this 8 x 12 ft. mural portrait of Breonna Taylor in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square during Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. (Justice for Breonna Taylor, Yetunde Sapp, 2020. Paint and spray paint on plywood. Photo by: Patrick Rogan, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Levita Mondie and Yetunde Sapp)

A review of the Louisville Metro Police Department by the U.S. Department of Justice found that officers conducted searches based on invalid warrants and illegally carried out raids without knocking or making an announcement.

The post Federal Investigators Find Louisville Police Routinely Call Black People ‘Boy,’ ‘Animal,’ ‘Monkeys’ appeared first on The Washington Informer.

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