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Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:16 AM Mar 2021

Louisville : Breonna Taylor's city gets a new Police Chief

Who?

Erika Shields, the Atlanta police chief who resigned after the shooting of Rayshard Brooks.

... the circumstances of her past resignation weigh heavily. Shields stepped down from her Atlanta job in June, a day after one of her officers fatally shot Rayshard Brooks when he grabbed another officer’s Taser. The killing launched citywide protests that sometimes turned violent.

Many in Louisville saw Shields’s hiring as a tone-deaf decision that unwisely placed a chief embroiled in her own police-violence uproar into a city still rocked by a similar incident. Shields is now tasked with navigating that opposition while fixing a police department and a city described as “in crisis” by outside consultants hired to examine police policies and procedures.

She said she knows residents are watching police officers and are unlikely to give them the benefit of the doubt.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/12/breonna-taylor-anniversary/

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