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

Subscribe to  Fiat Vox. After hearing the decision in the Breonna Taylor case on Wednesday - that the white police officer who shot and killed the 26-year-old Black medical technician was charged with only a low-level felony - Savala Trepczynski, the director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law, said 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.