Two years ago, a woman named Shayla Workman was driving in her car with her two children, aged 3-years-old and 1-year-old, near an apartment complex in Nashville, Tennessee. That’s when a man in his 20’s, Shaquille Taylor, opened fire. He shot the roof of the car at least two times as Workman drove away. The attack was not random. In fact, the motive couldn’t have been clearer: Workman had recently testified against, “Someone he cared about.” What was that man’s crime? As Workman put it, “His brother was locked up for shooting at me initially in May.” A few months later, on August 2nd, Taylor found Workman at the RiverChase apartments and also started shooting at her: “The bullet hit the top of my car and bounced off. Had I not been driving, it would’ve gone through the window and shot my son in his head.” Authorities then arrested Taylor, and he confessed.
What happened next is not simply a scandal or a national tragedy, although it’s both of those things. It is a breakdown of law and order that’s so stark, and so completely illogical in every possible respect, that today members of both political parties are calling for changes to the law in Tennessee before more people die. And those changes need to happen, immediately. This is a problem that exists in many states, even though no one in the media talks about it. But it should be the story that leads every newscast tonight. We have hit the absolute nadir of BLM-mandated equity in the judicial system, and this needs to be the end of it.
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