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MSNBC Guest Says Black Kentucky AG ‘Skin-Folk’ But ‘Not Kinfolk’ After Charges In Breonna Taylor Case

Tim Pearce
MSNBC Guest Says Black Kentucky AG ‘Skin-Folk’ But ‘Not Kinfolk’ After Charges In Breonna Taylor Case
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Retired Los Angeles police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, a black woman, seemed to suggest that Kentucky’s black attorney general is not truly black because of his handling of the Breonna Taylor case.

Dorsey appeared on MSNBC on Wednesday to react to grand jury charges announced against one former officer involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman who was killed by police in March. Earlier that day, former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was indicted on three charges of first-degree wanton endangerment for allegedly “blindly” firing 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment during a police raid the night of her death.

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