Breonna Taylor Dead Body in Rental Car, Didn’t Receive Justice
WKYT reported in August 2020 that Fernandez Bowman was the brother of Damarius Bowman, a known associate of Jamarcus Glover. The report said that the pair had been arrested together in the past. Bowman’s brother told WLKY in 2017 that she “cried tears of joy” after hearing about Hall’s arrest. She added that her brother was survived by six children including a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy.
Was a Dead Body Found in Breonna Taylor’s Rental Car in 2016? Yes.
Breonna Taylor rented a car in 2016 that was used by her then-boyfriend Jamarcus Glover. In December 2016, Fernandez Bowman was found dead in the car.
Taylor, 26, was shot dead inside of her home by Louisville Metro Police Department officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrave, on March 13, 2020, while they executed a search warrant. In September 2020, a grand jury failed to indict the three officers for their roles in Taylor’s death.
Baggies of Heroin, Marijuana, Meth & Pills Were Also Found in the Rental Car
An August 2020 feature on Taylor’s life in The New York Times explained that Taylor began dating Glover in 2016. In December of that year, Glover asked her to rent a car for him to use. That month, a man named Fernandez Bowman aka Rambo, was found dead inside of the car. He had been shot eight times. Glover told investigators that he gave Bowman the keys because Bowman needed to “run an errand.” Also found in the car were three baggies of an illegal substance. WLKY reported in 2017 that the baggies contained marijuana, pills, meth and heroin as well as a 9mm gun.
The Times article reads, “Investigators noted that they believed Ms. Taylor had no knowledge of the killing.” The piece goes on to say that during the investigation, Taylor was asked by a detective if she was involved in drug deals. An allegation that Taylor denied. Taylor also denied knowing Fernandez Brown, reported WKYT in August 2020.
In February 2017, Quenton Hall was arrested by the Louisville Metro Police Department in relation to the shooting death of Bowman. Hall has a lengthy criminal record that included drug and weapons charges. While in prison in relation to the Bowman killing, Hall was indicted in the 2004 murder of Troy Todd.
Bowman Was the Brother of Damarius Bowman, an Associate of Jamarcus Glover
The Louisville Courier Journal reported that after Bowman was shot, his car hit a telephone pole before rolling to a stop.
WKYT reported in August 2020 that Fernandez Bowman was the brother of Damarius Bowman, a known associate of Jamarcus Glover. The report said that the pair had been arrested together in the past. Bowman’s brother told WLKY in 2017 that she “cried tears of joy” after hearing about Hall’s arrest. She added that her brother was survived by six children including a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy.
“Breonna didn’t get it, shut it down!”
Portland Rioter Hurls Molotov Cocktail Into Police Ranks as a City and Nation Seethe Over Breonna Taylor
“Breonna didn’t get it, shut it down!” protesters chanted—meaning Taylor didn’t receive justice and the whole criminal justice system needs to be changed.
A rioter threw a Molotov cocktail into a group of police officers, police deployed tear gas and made mass arrests, and civil unrest roiled downtown Portland on Wednesday night, hours after a Kentucky grand jury decided not to charge police who killed Breonna Taylor.
What started as a peaceful demonstration, where a few hundred protesters reflected on Taylor's death and urged everyone to vote, quickly turned chaotic around 10 pm when the Portland Police Bureau declared a riot. Police said protesters were throwing rocks at the bureau's Central Precinct, endangering officers inside. Around 10:30 pm, a protester set fire to the plywood that boarded up the building's windows. (The fire quickly went out on its own.)
What ensued was a familiar sight to a city that has protested racial injustice and police brutality for over 100 days: Police officers clad in riot gear and wielding batons rushed through downtown streets, arresting those who disobeyed orders to disperse. Officers and protesters clashed for hours in smoke and fire.
As a small battalion of officers marched through downtown to make arrests, someone in the crowd of protesters threw a Molotov cocktail into the ranks of riot police. It exploded in a fireball on the pavement and caught one officer's foot on fire.
That battalion of officers chased the protester who threw the petrol bomb, and others, through the streets of downtown Portland.
The lobbing of the Molotov cocktail marked an escalation in clashes between police and protesters. Protesters threw petrol bombs toward police lines earlier this month, but Wednesday marked the first time such a weapon landed amid officers.
The rest of the night followed a pattern: Police officers chased protesters throughout downtown, pushing them down streets with tear gas and pepper balls while protesters threw tear gas canisters back at them and shielded themselves with umbrellas. Repeatedly, the two sides would stand off at an intersection until officers rushed through the streets to arrest protesters who did not disperse.
"You're proving our point!" a protester yelled at a police officer who tackled another protester to the ground.
Before the violence and mass arrests, the demonstration started at Chapman Square in downtown Portland where protesters chanted "No justice, no peace!" and "Say her name: Breonna Taylor!" to the beat of a drum line.
Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical worker, was killed in her Louisville, Ky., home by police officers executing a "no-knock warrant" in search of drugs. No drugs were found. On Wednesday morning, a Kentucky grand jury decided the three officers involved in her death would not be charged for killing her. One officer was charged with wanton endangerment for shooting into apartments near Taylor's.
The decision sparked protests throughout the country, as Taylor has become an icon of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In Portland, which has experienced some of the most intense civil unrest in the nation, protesters said the verdict confirmed their worst suspicions about American injustice.
"We saw it coming," said Dre Miller, 37, of the grand jury's decision. "I thought it was a slap to the face to her family and to all of us who have been protesting."
Miller said he's been protesting for months because he has children and he "doesn't want them to live in a world where they have to deal with systemic racism."
"It's not just Breonna Taylor," he added. "It's George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin. We're fed up."
Others took the verdict in Taylor's case personally too, including Erica Carapia, who said she "is Breonna Taylor."
"I am her. We're both Black and we're both women," Carapia, 25, said. "What happened to her could happen to me, and I want to fight for her as much as I can."
"Breonna didn't get it, shut it down!" protesters chanted—meaning Taylor didn't receive justice and the whole criminal justice system needs to be changed, a call activists throughout the country have repeated.
And that's what Patrick Kindred thinks, too, saying Taylor did all the right things, but she was still killed by the police.
"You can be a good citizen and still [be] shot and killed," Kindred, 28, said. "She did what she needed to do and got gunned down for no reason."