Column: NBA players are demanding justice for Breonna Taylor’s death. We should join them

The killing of Breonna Taylor illuminates so many of our country’s flaws that it’s almost hard to know where to start: The callous disregard for Black lives, the misguided war on drugs, the overkill employed by local police departments, which treat law-abiding citizens as if they were terrorists in the mold of Osama bin Laden. “We want to make sure that Daniel Cameron”— the Kentucky attorney general — “will arrest the cops and the officers involved with Breonna Taylor’s death,” replied Harris, “and that’s all I got to say.” Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart had one answer to every question posed to him by reporters: “Justice for Breonna Taylor.” And after the Lakers played the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA’s biggest star, LeBron James, said, “We want the cops arrested who committed that crime. That’s what it’s all about.” He spoke about Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, Floyd, Taylor and about how Blacks are racially profiled “from the time you come out of the womb.” And, he added, “I don’t like the word ‘movement’ because, unfortunately, in America and in society, there ain’t been no damn movement for us.” :: When a trio of Louisville police officers in plainclothes broke down Taylor’s door after midnight last spring, she was in bed watching a movie with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. :: The officer who returned Walker’s fire, Brett Hankison, has been fired for “blindly” firing 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment. Earlier this month, Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, spoke with “Good Morning America.” “I’m new into this position,” said Palmer.