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EDITOR’S NOTE

STATE REPUBLICANS TARGET PROTESTERS WITH DANGEROUS BILL

By Aaron Yarmuth | leo@leoweekly.com SENATE BILL 211 is an astonishing new level of police-boot licking by Republicans.

It includes several provisions that Republicans will claim are police-protection measures. But, as you will see, not one reform fixes a problem. What’s more telling, each provision can be tied back to the racial justice movement and protests of last summer.

GOP lawmakers’ support of police isn’t just about helping law enforcement. It’s also about their animosity toward Black people and other minorities, the LGBTQ community, Democrats and all the politicallycorrect, godless city people. That’s where the “woke” folks are.

And no piece of legislation demonstrates this more than SB 211, which was advanced by a Senate committee last Thursday.

SB 211, which now goes to the full Senate, would criminalize anyone who: “Accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.”

First of all, the “reasonable and prudent person” is not a sufficient standard coming from the Kentucky Legislature, where there is a dearth of reason and prudence. And, of course, it’s clearly unconstitutional to pro-

hibit insulting a police officer — whether it’s a word or a finger. While it’s not a perfect analogy, this would be similar to banning insults against elected officials.

Second, while there’s been a surge in police insults over the last 12 months, is it a problem that requires new, special protections? Have police suddenly become more sensitive to insults?

One of the penalties for insulting a police officer could be losing “cash assistance benefits under Title IV of the federal Social Security Act…” Title IV provides “Grants to states for aid and services to needy families with children and for child-welfare services.” Does a child deserve to go hungry because their parent insulted a police officer?

Republican state senators must also be offended that protesters have been allowed to setup protest camps in Downtown Louisville and other cities around the country. SB 211 solves that imaginary crisis by outlawing camping on state grounds (state property being the only jurisdiction state lawmakers have authority to regulate).

I might have missed this in the news, but I’m confident there hasn’t been a largescale protest camp in the hometowns of SB 211-sponsors Sen. Danny Carroll (Paducah) or Sen. Mike Nemes (Shepherdsville).

SB 211 also criminalizes assisting in a riot, if “He or she knowingly provides sup-

plies to a riot that can be used as weapons or dangerous instruments.” So, if you offer protesters bottles of water, and one of those bottles ends up hitting a police officer, you could be a criminal.

You might not even be aware you’re around a “riot” the way this bill defines it: “a public disturbance involving an assemblage of five (5) or more persons which by tumultuous and violent conduct creates grave danger of damage or injury to property or persons or substantially obstructs law enforcement or other government function.” Basically every college or high school party — even childhood slumber parties — could be considered a riot.

All added up, it makes it easier for the police to arrest peaceful protesters.

While it’s clear who’s being targeted, there’s one provision in the bill that appears to defend armed counter-protesters. Turns out, it’s just a new stand-yourground protection for a person who “uses defensive force” during “the course of a riot,” “in an attempt to escape the immediate vicinity” and “the person against whom the defensive force was used was intentionally blocking or preventing the person from escape.”

I’m not saying this provision is specifi-

cally designed to protect Kyle Rittenhouse — the 17-year-old, white gunman who was charged with first-degree intentional homicide for killing two people and wounding a third during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the police killing of Jacob Blake.

But, this bill could potentially protect Rittenhouse, the killer.

This week, Democrats in the U.S. House passed the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.” It would ban police chokeholds, ban some no-knock warrants and curb qualified immunity and bring other significant reforms to law enforcement nationwide.

Republican lawmakers said it would prevent law enforcement from doing their job.

In the most generous interpretation, Republicans could be correct about one thing: Police officers are put in stressful, often unfair, situations daily. They risk their lives every time they put on their uniform. And, insults surely don’t mitigate the mental and emotional toll of the job.

But, instead of criminalizing insults, Republicans should try to help solve the problems that led to protesting and insulting the police, instead of just licking their boots. •

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YOU DO NOT FIND THE NEXT AMANDA GORMAN

BY SILENCING BLACK GIRLS

By Hannah Drake | leo@leoweekly.com ness without investing in Black excelON JAN. 20, during President Joe lence. I looked on — as an older Black Biden’s inauguration, we watched in poet — and felt this urge to protect what awe as Amanda Gorman, the nation’s I knew was indeed first-ever youth sacred before this poet laureate, However, please world took what it took to the stage wanted, gobbled it and spoke truth to know there are up and then spit it power — after Jan. all back out. While 6, 2021. Amanda Black girls in we all stood in awe, Gorman stood and schools that I felt compelled to spoke to the nation remind my city that just days after are phenomenal there is an Amanda hundreds of prepoets, writers and Gorman in our very dominately white own school system people stormed speakers. Black of Jefferson Counthe Capitol, wavtry Public Schools. ing Confederate girls that dream Amanda Gormans flags, reminding us exist all throughout of being the next that many in this this nation. The country will always Maya Angelou, problem is you fight to uphold white supremacy.

Gwendolyn Brooks, don’t see them.

As a mother of a We watched Toni Morrison, Black girl that went Amanda Gorman through JCPS, I speak truth to Audre Lorde or understand how it power at 22 years is to have a Black old, while grown Nikki Giovanni. girl in a school men and women However, too many system that doesn’t couldn’t muster Black girls. up a modicum of white teachers call value In a 2019 article, courage to call out “According to Donald Trump for Black girls loud.

JCPS, suspension inciting a riot. The rates are three times world paused as higher for Black girls than their white this young Black poet stood in her truth peers, and Black girls have the lowest and reminded this nation that we could sense of belonging among student be better if we desired to be better. groups. That statistic drops even lower after middle school.” I understand one We’ve seen a force that would shatter of the first places that will tell Black our nation girls what they can’t be and reinforce rather than share it that with their actions, is in school.

Would destroy our country if it meant However, please know there are delaying democracy Black girls in schools that are phenomAnd this effort very nearly succeeded enal poets, writers and speakers. Black But while democracy can be periodigirls that dream of being the next Maya cally delayed Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morit can never be permanently defeated rison, Audre Lorde or Nikki Giovanni.

However, too many white teachers call Immediately Amanda’s poem, “The Black girls loud. They tell Black girls Hill We Climb,” went viral as a charge they are unladylike. They tell Black to this nation. girls they are too aggressive. They tell As a poet, I was interviewed about Black girls to lower their hopes, dreams Amanda Gorman. And while my heart and ambitions. They label Black girls as beamed with pride, I understood that women when they are just girls. They this nation loves to devour Black great-

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are concerned about how Black girls wear their hair. They never introduce Black girls to authors that look like them, who are writing about the things that impact their lives. They create and support an environment where Black girls can be physically abused by those in so-called authority. The curriculum never focuses on Black girls and women and our achievements throughout history. Black girls rarely have the experience of being educated by a teacher that looks like them. Black girls are silenced instead of being encouraged to use their voices. Black girls are hushed instead of being rewarded for standing up. Black girls are told to just be quiet when they dare to challenge antiquated rules.

And even when Black girls are silent, they are tossed across classrooms like rag dolls.

There are countless videos of Black girls being assaulted, tased, body-slammed and assaulted in school.

This year, I watched in horror as a 9-year-old Black girl was pepper-sprayed by the police. Nine years old.

As an adult woman, I have been pepper-sprayed by the police for protesting the murder of Breonna Taylor. It is an experience I will never forget, and I cannot imagine a 9 year old going through the pain and confusion of being pepper-sprayed.

However, in this nation, it seems it is always acceptable to abuse and silence Black girls.

How do you think this abuse will swallow up their voices? This is what this nation does to Black girls, all while praising Amanda Gorman.

Understand that you do not get the next Maya or Amanda by silencing Black

girls. You do not get the next Maya or Amanda or even Hannah by putting Black girls in a cage. There is something inside of Black girls that will always long to sing no matter how many cages you attempt to put them in. Try as you might, you cannot beat that song out of Black girls. Even a blackbird will sing for freedom, and Black girls were born with a song. Black girls were born with a longing to speak the truth. Black girls are infused with their ancestors’ voices, voices that refused to be silent in times of turmoil.

When I made my comment that there are Amanda Gormans in JCPS, it resonated with a local reporter at WLKY who contacted me about a rising poet competition. I immediately supported this effort because I understand that Black girls need to have space to use their voice.

Not to be exploited by whiteness, not to be muted by racism, but to be allowed the space to say what is burning in their hearts!

So sing your song, Black girl. Write your story, Black girl. Know that you deserve to be heard, Black girl. Be loud, Black girl. Shout, Black girl. Speak your truth, Black girl. Don’t let them silence you, Black girl. Be free, Black girl.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. – Maya Angelou •

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TITLE IX

THE NEED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT EDUCATION, AWARENESS AND PREVENTION IN THE I/DD COMMUNITY

By James J. Wilkerson | leoweekly.com IT WAS a late evening in March 2019 when Natalie was on her way home from work. Her cab driver was one she was familiar with as he had driven her numerous times through the TARC3 program with no incident. But on this night, he insisted on helping her carry her backpack and lunch box to her apartment door. Natalie informed him that she did not need help, but he insisted on following her to her home anyway. Once there, to Natalie’s surprise, he barged his way into her apartment. She told him he was not supposed to be there and asked him numerous times to leave. But he insisted on staying, ultimately pushing her down on her couch and groping her. Natalie fought him off and thinking quick, told him that her apartment was equipped with hidden cameras. Upon this revelation, her attacker quickly left the apartment with Natalie locking the door behind him. Natalie and her mother Tina would eventually report the sexual assault to TARC3.

Their response?

Next time it happens, call 911.

likely to report abuse,” said Loren Pilcher, the COO of Sweet Behavior, an organization that serves individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in 40 counties throughout the Kentuckiana area. “Predators view those with disabilities as less than human and therefore view crimes against them as less serious.”

Tina also believes that predators see those with disabilities as easy targets.

“They don’t think I/DD women will fight back or report sexual assault,” Tina said. “And even if they do, there is the thought that they won’t be believed.”

The fact that predators are often trusted members of their victim’s support circle, only puts the I/DD community further at risk — 97% to 99% of abusers are known and trusted by their victims. The abusers range from family members and acquaintances to caretakers, or in Natalie’s case, transportation providers. Kentucky does address nonconsensual intercourse with those incapable of giving consent due to an intellectual disability in its second degree rape and sodomy laws.

PREDATORY PATTERNS

THE LACK OF EDUCATION

Natalie and Tina would also report the assault to the police, and upon doing so, would learn of other accusations against this driver. Specifically, they learned that this driver targeted young women with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD). These predatory patterns speak to the enormous issue of sexual assault against the I/DD community. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, people with disabilities are three times more likely than nondisabled people to experience sexual assault. And when it comes to the youth, research shows that children with intellectual or mental disabilities are almost five times more likely than nondisabled children to experience sexual assault.

When seeking to understand why the I/DD community is at much greater risk for sexual assault, it is important to understand the mindset of the predator.

“Predators perceive those with disabilities as weak, vulnerable and less

While sexual education programs typically focus on the biology of sex, important units covering sexual assault prevention are usually glossed over or omitted completely from the lesson plan.

Of the 29 states where sexual education is mandated, only eight states teach consent. Neither Kentucky nor Indiana are among the ones that do. Other tools such as bystander intervention and victim empathy rarely make it into a student’s toolbox either. While this lack of education exists on all levels, it is especially frustrating in a community that statistics show to be at greater risk.

Tina doesn’t recall a single class on sexual assault prevention being offered to her daughter.

“There have been a few classes on relationships, but that has been about it,” she states.

Meanwhile, Pilcher theorizes that caretakers and parents viewing those

James J. Wilkerson.

with I/DD as perpetual children create a barrier for this type of education.

“I’ve had numerous parents and caretakers question why their children need to be educated on the topic as they are never going to have sex in the first place,” Pilcher said. “I know the statistics can be scary, but in order to prevent toxic sexuality, you must be able to identify it.”

A BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE

Down Syndrome of Louisville (DSL) is preparing to address the lack of meaningful education head on.

“We are so excited to begin creating an education program that supports our members, educates the parents and community, and advocates for those who don’t have a voice,” said DSL Engagement Director Carly Riggs.

DSL is working with local advocates and educators to craft a program they hope can eventually be adopted on a national level and provide a blueprint for other agencies.

On April 6, they will broadcast an informational podcast that highlights the sexual assault issues the I/DD community are facing. Then, on April 13, the nonprofit organization will host

an interactive online panel discussion with several experts, before using the summer to develop the program’s curriculum. Riggs highlights consent, safety, self-defense and the balance of safety and independence as necessary elements for the program to cover. She also hopes to create a class focused on teaching parents and caretakers how to best identify signs of abuse, predatory behavior and how the statistics apply to them. An emphasis will be put on including parents in the planning stages of the program as well.

“We don’t want parents to be scared but rather, we need their help at the table,” Riggs says.

As sexual assault awareness month approaches, the time is ripe not only to understand sexual assault against the I/DD community, but also to act in combating it. Understanding the issue is important but bringing parents, educators, students and the community together to fill the educational void is needed action.

For as Dr. Phil states, “awareness without action, is worthless.” •

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NEWS & ANALYSIS

DO KENTUCKY’S NO-KNOCK BILLS HONOR BREONNA TAYLOR’S LEGACY?

By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com

THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD ROSE: LEO, CONGRESS… $1.9-TRILLION RELIEF BILL Instead of writing their own COVID-relief bill, the U.S. Senate passed the House bill (with amendments). The author of the House bill is none other than Congressman John Yarmuth, founder of LEO Weekly and chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee. At $1.9 trillion, the bill is one of the three largest bills to ever pass the U.S. Congress — tied with the Trump-McConnell tax cuts. It will reduce the poverty rate in America by one-third and cut childhood poverty in half. (The Trump-McConnell tax cuts sent 65% of its $1.9 trillion bill to the top-20% of income earners.) LEO sources close to Yarmuth say he never believed he could do anything in Congress as important as passing Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), until now.

ROSE: STUPIDITY PAYS The freedom-loving patriots who petitioned to have Gov. Andy Beshear impeached didn’t get the outcome they were looking for. Of course, the impeachment petition was dismissed… that was always the obvious outcome. The unwelcome outcome for the petitioners was a bill for the attorney’s fees — $18,000 to be exact. Beshear’s attorneys spent 159 hours working on the government’s defense, according to the Courier Journal, and: “Under the rules of the impeachment committee, unsuccessful petitioners are required to pay for the costs of the proceedings, including the attorney fees of the subject of the petition, as well as the time of the legislators on the committee and the attorney hired by the committee.” Good thing for the one original petitioner who asked to be removed from the petition in the early days. He must’ve been wearing an “I’m with stupid —>” t-shirt.

Breonna Taylor, 26, was killed March 13. (Family photo)

TAMIKA Palmer stared at the framed city — in response to the death of Palmer’s daughter, Breonna Taylor, ordinance in her hands, smiling who was down at killed by it as she Currently, there are two Metro stood in front of bills addressing no-knock police three Metro months Hall, warrants muddling earlier while a through the Kentucky after they group of a protesters legislature. But do both obtained no-knock cheered warrant to from of them honor Taylor’s raid her below the memory — and what home. building’s steps. would a final bill have to had“She the It was agenda June, look like to make sure to save and the that is the case? lives,” Louisville said council Palmer, referring to Taylor, who was had just passed Breonna’s Law — a an ER tech with dreams to become a ban on no-knock warrants in the

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nurse. “And this law’s going to help her do it,” finished Palmer.

Keturah Herron, an ACLU of Kentucky policy strategist, stood with Palmer. She had been working for weeks with the council to get Breonna’s Law passed. And she was about to embark on a more arduous journey: ushering through a bill changing Kentucky’s no-knock warrant policy statewide — another Breonna’s Law — in honor of Taylor and her calling to save lives.

Currently, there are two bills addressing no-knock warrants muddling through the Kentucky legislature. But do both of them honor Taylor’s memory — and what would a final bill have to look like to make sure that is the case?

Democratic state Rep. Attica Scott’s bill, House Bill 21, closely adheres to the original Breonna’s

ROSE, THORN: PIAGENTINI GETS TAKEN TO SCHOOL A rose to Democrat Councilwoman Cassie Chambers Armstrong for taking her colleague, Republican Councilman Anthony Piagentini, to school. Armstrong responded to a horrific story of a patient being assaulted (twice) on their way into a women’s care clinic by saying, “If anyone was wondering if we really need a safety zone…” Tweethappy Piagentini responded, tweeting: “A homeless person assaults someone and that is an excuse to trample on first amendment rights in public spaces. I am curious if the same safety zone advocates will advocate for one around the convention center after the way children were verbally assaulted by BLM protestors?” Chambers Armstrong took the opportunity to help educate her colleague with the actual, legal parameters of a “buffer zone,” saying, “A buffer zone ‘does not prevent groups... from congregating within sight and earshot of the clinic. Nor does it prevent protestors...from being seen and heard, or... speaking outside the zone with willing listeners’ — 3rd Circuit stating buffer zones don’t ‘trample on’ free speech.” You see, Anthony, this is what we call a “teachable moment.”

ROSE: ANOTHER MASS VAX? On Monday, Gov. Beshear said the state was “in advanced talks” to open a second vaccination site in Shawnee Park. Opening a second mass vaccination site would be a significant development toward turbocharging the rollout in Louisville, and having it in the West End shows real action toward the government’s promise to make access to the vaccine more equitable.

NEWS & ANALYSIS Law: an all-out no-knock warrant ban with other “police last year. That was a total no-knock warrant ban, but accountability measures.” It bears the name, “Breonna’s Herron said bills often change from state to state, such Law.” The other, Senate Bill 4, by Senate President as with Marsy’s Law. That law, which elevates victims’ Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, would limit no-knock rights to the Constitutionally-granted defendants’ rights, warrants to situations where the perpetrator could be has been passed in multiple states including Kentucky charged with a violent crime. It is not named after and is named after Marsalee (Marsy) Ann Nicholas, Taylor. whose killer was released from jail on bail without her parents being notified.

Herron thinks both HB 21 and SB 4, and their Both Herron and Scott approach to no-knock warrants, believe that legislation passcould honor Taylor’s legacy. ing with Taylor’s name is “I think, at the end of the important. day, we just want to make sure Scott said, “Kentucky is that there is strong legislation The Senate bill cruel to Black women, even in that happens to make sure that death. And, Kentucky legislano one else is susceptible to has “numerous tors erase Black women far too the circumstances to where exemptions” for often from public discourse.”

Breonna Taylor was murdered,” One example of this, Scott Herron said. obtaining no-knock said, was when Sen. Stivers did But, Scott, the chief sponsor not say Taylor’s name while of HB 21, says that SB 4 “fails warrants instead of presenting SB 4 to the Senate to live up to what would be a being a total ban, Judiciary Committee, instead real and true Breonna’s law.” referring to her as a “young “It doesn’t even mirror the which Scott called lady.”

Louisville ordinance,” said “And not even titling that Scott, who represents Jefferson “a concern.” It also bill Breonna’s Law, which is County. “It’s not reflective of doesn’t address what people have been crying what hundreds of people who out for for months, is an were on the front lines for areas of possible absolute slap in the face to her justice have been crying out for. family and to this movement, It doesn’t reflect what literally accountability for for justice for Breonna Taylor,” thousands of Kentuckians have police that weren’t in said Scott. taken action on House Bill 21 Stivers did invoke Taylor’s have been demanding.” place the night Taylor name when offering up the bill The Senate bill has “numerfor a full Senate vote. He said ous exemptions” for obtaining was killed, she said.

Taylor was deprived of her no-knock warrants instead of Her bill would require fundamental rights when she being a total ban, which Scott was killed as the result of “bad” called “a concern.” It also drug and alcohol and “misguided” policing. But, doesn’t address areas of posStivers did not change the name sible accountability for police testing for officers if of the bill. that weren’t in place the night they’re involved in a Herron said naming noTaylor was killed, she said. knock bills after Taylor is Her bill would require drug deadly encounter. And, “super important.” and alcohol testing for officers “To me, we can’t bring if they’re involved in a deadly it would mandate that Breonna Taylor back,” said encounter. And, it would manofficers wear active Herron. “And so I feel like the date that officers wear active thing to do is how do we body cameras while on duty. body cameras while on next make sure that we honor her Scott introduced her law at legacy. And so absolutely the the start of the 2021 legislative duty. naming, of her, especially here session. But, it wasn’t until Stiin Kentucky, of any legislation vers introduced his bill late into is important.” the session — and it was passed Sen. Stivers did not return by the Senate — that Scott’s a request for comment from bill was finally forwarded to the LEO, but his Democratic co-sponsor, state Sen. Reginald House Judiciary Committee.

On Wednesday at noon, the House Judiciary Commit- Thomas from Lexington, told LEO that he and many of his Senate colleagues were motivated by Taylor’s death tee is set to vote on SB 4, but HB 21 is slated only to be to join the legislation. discussed.

“We had to act,” said Thomas. “We had to make Herron said she expects to see some variations in sure that there was never another death like that of Breonna’s Laws as the idea spreads to other states, as it Breonna Taylor, because of the tragic nature of those already has to Virginia, which passed a Breonna’s Law

circumstances.”

And, he said he believes that if SB 4 had been a law last year, Louisville officers wouldn’t have been able to obtain the warrant that led to Taylor’s death.

Thomas joined Stivers’ effort to create no-knock legislation at the beginning of the 2021 legislative session, he said.

In addition to limiting the circumstances for which a no-knock warrant can be obtained, SB 4 requires a supervising officer or the agency’s highest ranking officer to sign off on the warrant. It also requires officers to wear body cameras while executing a no-knock search warrant. The officers executing the warrant would have to be part of a SWAT or special response team. The legislation also would reinforce laws that make it illegal for officers to lie in a no-knock warrant application.

Thomas said that he is not in favor of a total ban on no-knock warrants and called it “bad public policy.”

“There are some instances,” he said, “where noknock warrants make perfect sense.”

When asked what Thomas thought about the bill not being named Breonna’s Law, Thomas said there is still time for the members of the House to make changes to the bill.

“Let me put it like this, if that amendment comes back to us with her name on it, I’ll vote for it,” he said.

When Stivers presented the bill to the Senate on Feb. 25, he said that he had talked to the attorney representing Taylor’s family, Sam Aguiar. Aguiar had complimented the bill and called it well-crafted and more holistic than some bills he had been involved in creating, Stivers said.

In a virtual Hood to the Holler forum on Feb. 10, Aguiar talked about HB 21, saying that Palmer closely follows the progress of all legislation regulating noknock warrants across the United States.

“She smiles and sheds tears every single time this type of legislation is passed around the country and it’d be a damn shame if it keeps getting passed in other places and can’t get passed here,” he said.

Aguiar also questioned why HB 21’s total noknock warrant ban wasn’t getting traction in the state legislature.

“We also need to ask ourselves, why aren’t they down for what we’re proposing?” he asked. “Because it’s really, I mean, I’m a little biased, but it’s really reasonable and it’s much needed reform.”

Last Tuesday, a caravan of cars met at Jefferson Square Park in downtown Louisville and drove to Frankfort for a rally in support of the bill.

Palmer, Taylor’s mother, was there. She addressed the crowd, which was smaller than the one she spoke to this summer in Louisville but still energized. “Who’s law?

Breonna’s law,” they shouted.

To them, Palmer said, “We just gotta keep pushing for it and keep doing what we gotta do.” •

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BREONNA THE PERSON, IN THE WORDS AND PHOTOS OF HER SISTER

By Ju’Niyah Palmer, Danielle Grady | leo@leoweekly.com

THE first photo many of us saw of Breonna Taylor was her in an EMT uniform, standing proudly with flowers in Louisville Metro Hall. It was a happy photo, a beautiful one. It’s just not the only photo that Ju’Niyah Palmer, Breonna’s sister, wants us to see of her.

“I don’t like that you only see her in her work uniform. I want people to see when she didn’t get dressed up and she would be outside. Or when she’s dressed up and going outside. I want y’all to see that she’s more than this person that worked as an EMT, she was still just an average person,” said Ju’Niyah Palmer.

This was part of the reason that Ju’Niyah Palmer started posting pictures and videos of Breonna Taylor to her Instagram (@ju.niyah). The posts show Breonna Taylor in her car, singing to the camera under the glow of Snapchat filters. They depict her dressed up for a night out and chilling on the couch with her beloved Granny.

They show the different facets of Breonna Taylor, a completed portrait of who she was as a person. Not just the story of her work history and death — a Black woman at home, shot and killed by Louisville police in a horrifically botched and unnecessary raid.

Another reason Ju’Niyah Palmer started filling her feed with photos of her sister was to combat a narrative that Breonna deserved what happened to her.

“I keep posting to get people to understand she really was this innocent person,” Ju’Niyah Palmer said. “It’s not like we were fabricating. Because some people will lie.

And it’s not that we were fabricating or anything. I just want them to know that anything we do and say about her is genuinely true. A lot of people are still going off, based off what LMPD said. But a lot of people aren’t paying attention. That has already been called out that LMPD has lied and continues to lie.”

Then, there’s a part of Ju’Niyah Palmer who posts about Breonna Taylor for herself: To remember her sister, even if it hurts.

“Sometimes, it makes me sad,” said Ju’Niyah Palmer. “Sometimes, I look at them, and I just want to be able to be grateful that, A) she was my sister, and I actually got to her know her. I mean, at the end of the day, it still makes me sad.”

As the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s killing approaches, one year without her, we would like to show you Breonna the person, Breonna the sister, Breonna the caretaker and more — through Ju’Niyah Palmer’s words and photos. Her quotes have been lightly edited for length and clarity.

BREONNA TAYLOR, 6 MO.

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My mom was 16 when she had Breonna. Breonna was a very good baby. She wasn’t anything like me because I was a crybaby. [Mom] said Breonna was a quiet and observant baby. If I’m not mistaken, my mom had moved out and got her own place. But it was her and Breonna. Of course, she always had my Granny, though.

Mom always did our hair. I don’t know as far as Breonna but for me, I didn’t like getting my hair done. I always didn’t. I didn’t like it. Well Breonna, even though, for the most part, from what I could remember, Breonna actually liked getting her hair done. If she could walk around with ponytails, she would.

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JU’NIYAH PALMER, 6 MO. AND BREONNA TAYLOR 7 YR.

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I think we were at Muskegon Beach in Michigan. We were still living in Michigan. So Muskegon Beach is actually pretty close to Grand Rapids.

Because I know growing up that we used to drive to the beaches a lot because that’s all we had. Like, that was our beach for us. You know how most people have Florida? That was our Florida for us.

We would swim, play in the sand. We would stay at least four to five hours. It would be me, my mom, my grandma and my aunties and their kids. It’s very much spontaneous. It just depended on off-days. We both were waterbugs. So we loved the fact that we were at the water. And we would go and swim. And we actually would get in trouble because we wouldn’t get out of the water.

My aunt used to say that Breonna used to think I was her baby, though.

Like, Breonna, in her mind, she was my mom. Even though my mom was my mom.

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BREONNA, (APPROX.) 12

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I’m pretty sure she got caught having snacks, because that arm is behind her back. I swear she got caught getting in the snacks. And I’m pretty sure my Granny just took the picture and was like yeah, we caught ‘ya. It was spontaneous. Breonna didn’t usually always take snacks. I was the snacker. [Breonna] would have laughed it off and would’ve just kind of made a joke about it. My grandmother would have thought it was funny.

My sister, I don’t know. She was always quiet growing up. She was always quiet. She’s observing what’s around her, but she’s also in her own world.

I can just say, me and my sister were complete opposites.

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BREONNA, (APPROX.) 12

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That was her first computer. She had got it for her birthday. In this, I think she was on the internet actually in this picture. She used to just get on her computer and do whatever she wanted to do. We definitely had games, because I used to play Life. And then she used to get mad because I wouldn’t get off the computer because I was playing Life.

She played Life, Monopoly, that one little game, where you’ve got to, I don’t know what it’s called. Pinball? Pinball, yeah.

When I used to play in our room, Breonna did not play with me, I know that much. She used to read a lot. She used to read Harry Potter, and I used to think she was very weird. Those books are too thick. We’d be in the same room, but she’d be occupied with what she was doing and I would be occupied with what I was doing. I had a lot of toys. Every time we went to the store, I came home with a toy. I do know I tried to play with her Easy-Bake Oven one time and she told me no.

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JU’NIYAH, (APPROX.) 6; BREONNA, (APPROX.) 12

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I can tell we were at my cousin’s house, because that’s her in the background. And I’m pretty sure my Granny was like, I don’t know, get the siblings next to each other. Because I know in the photo album, all my cousins were in a picture together. So I’m pretty sure my granny was just taking pictures. That, oh my god. That lady, oh my god — take pictures of every and anything. Capture every moment.

We all lived in the same apartments. I know food used to be involved.

We’d cook. All the kids would play together. It was a lot of fun. Because at one point, I guess all of our family moved to the same apartment complex. And we would all just play together. It was like five older kids, which would be Breonna’s age. It was like five of them, and but, it was like, no exaggerating, 20 of us younger ones. Everybody used to separate to their age group. And everybody would split. I know the older kids used to be on their phones. I don’t know what they used to be upstairs doing, because I used to be downstairs playing. Breonna is the oldest. But it seems like all the cousins, they all was born that same year, it’s just after Breonna.

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JU’NIYAH, (APPROX.) 6, BREONNA, (APPROX.) 12

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I remember this Christmas for some odd reason. We had opened our Christmas gifts and all we heard at the door was a knock. And me and Breonna were like OK, whatever. My mom came, went and opened the door and in came that motorcycle box behind us. And the motorcycle I’m sitting on, I got a motorcycle from my granddad. Breonna got the DVD player, and she got some canvas stuff. We got a whole bunch of stuff from my granddad. This was like early afternoon. We was those 7 o’clock kids that got up.

The day was more of, my Granny used to cook. Of course, we opened presents. And everybody would come over to my Granny’s house, because my Granny was the most spirited when it came to Christmas. She used to have the big, big trees. She used to decorate the house, the trees, the things. She used to have Christmas music playing.

Holidays were big. People celebrate Easter, but I don’t think anybody used to do Easter as big as my family. Like, it was the dyeing of the eggs, the Easter egg hunts. It was my Granny baking cakes, my Granny cooking a full-course meal. It was big.

As I got older, it became my sister. The way when I was younger, it was always my Granny that kept everybody together and made everybody do everything. As we got older, it was always Breonna trying to make sure the family got together for every holiday. ‘Cus my granny got older and then eventually she passed, so it turned into Breonna’s job. She made sure we got together for holidays. She didn’t even care if it was a regular weekend. If ain’t nobody doing nothing, we should all just come together. Breonna was just very, she loved family.

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BREONNA, 18; GRANDDAD; KORIE; TIFFANY; TAMIKA; STEPHANIE; JU’NIYAH (APPROX.) 11

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My aunt Tiffany had just got married to her husband Mark. And we were living in Kentucky at the time, but I know we had traveled back to Michigan. We traveled to Detroit for the wedding.

We moved to Kentucky… 2008. We always went back. We went back a lot actually.

We had family here, too. But, the majority of the family was in Michigan.

That was a really big day. Because that was, to my knowledge, that was our first wedding ever going to. We were real happy, because, you know, we got to wear makeup, these beautiful dresses. We were very excited about that day.

Breonna got her hair cut her senior year. So Breonna had to be 18. She still was quiet, but at this time, she started being more social with her friends. She would go out. But the one thing about Breonna, she would never stay the night at her friend’s house.

She would always come home. All the time. She just wasn’t big on staying the night over at other people’s houses. She just wanted to be at home in her own comfort.

So, she had moved away to college. Breonna had left and gone to college at University of Kentucky that August. And, of course ,we used to Skype and stuff. But after she came home that next semester, we got extremely close. Like, super duper close. I became her shadow. I literally became her shadow. If it was anything that I could possibly do, I would go with her. Unless she told me no. I used to go to the mall with her. I used to hang out with her and her friends. I just did everything with her.

BREONNA (APPROX.) 21, GRANNY, TAMIKA

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She was home. She didn’t last at college, because Breonna...she didn’t like UK. She came home and went to JCTC. But Breonna, she didn’t like staying anywhere but home. So her being not at home wasn’t for her. She was gone for a semester.

Breonna and my grandmother, if we had to say my Granny had a favorite, it would be Breonna — between Breonna and my other cousin. Breonna and my grandmother were very close. Because, of course, my grandmother was a diabetic, so Breonna used to help take care of my Granny even growing up. Like, Breonna used to give my Granny her insulin shots. She used to check my Granny’s blood sugar. Anything to make sure my grandmother was staying afloat. My mom said Breonna would pretty much just did it on her own. It just came in life. She literally just done it. It was never a, ‘Breonna, can you do this?’ She used to ask my Granny could she take her sugar and stuff.

They’re very much similar. My Granny was very nice. So was Breonna. They both were sweethearts actually. And they both wanted the best for everybody, literally. They both would take their shirt off and give it to people. They actually, pretty much if you ask me, were kind of like the same person.

But, my grandmother wasn’t as shy and reserved as Breonna was.

My mom and my sister are opposites, too. Me and my mom are alike, and Breonna and my Granny are alike. Very spunky. My mom is very well outspoken. My mom is very outgoing. She’s more mean than Breonna is, or was. So, my mom has her sweetheart moments, but she’s very, I don’t know, she intimidates people. She doesn’t intimidate me, but she’s very intimidating. And her and Breonna were opposites. It’s just weird.

I mean, everybody bumps heads with their parents. It was never anything. It was never nothing not normal. It was the normal parent relationship. But, I will say Breonna and my mom were closer than me and my mom are. It had a lot to do with —they kind of, like, grew up together.

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JU’NIYAH, 17; BREONNA, 23

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I actually went out with her and Kenny [Walker, Breonna’s boyfriend] and a friend of theirs that they had together. We hung out at the park this day. And here in Louisville on Sundays, a lot of people gather at the park and hung out. So we had actually hung out and went out to eat that day and went to the park.

I think we went to, what’s the name of that park, Chickasaw? Yeah, Chickasaw. There, it’s just a big, everybody comes out, they bring their good cars out. We actually parked in the parking lot. My mom was there, too, actually. We parked in the parking lot, and we were watching the cars and just talking.

I actually liked living with my sister a lot. I enjoyed living over there. I liked everything, literally. There’s nothing I could just pinpoint. I liked living over there. I mean, I always had a lot of freedom, but I just, I don’t know. I just loved staying over there. I didn’t have my mom getting on my nerves all day every day.

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BREONNA, 24; JU’NIYAH, 18

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That day, she stressed me out. I wanted to pull my hair out. She stressed me out. She just wanted to make sure everything went great and that I enjoyed it. This picture was taken downtown here in Louisville at the Belvedere.

She was really excited for me, because, like, I had had — senior year was a hard year, because I lost my Granny. We had just lost my grandmother that November, and I was already having a hard time. And I was very ambitious on me paying for everything. Like, I paid to get my hair done, my makeup, my nails, my dress. I wanted to be very independent, and she kept wanting to put her two cents in, put money in. And I was like, no, let me just do this myself. The only thing I let her do was put my rental in her name. But other than that, I didn’t want her doing anything. Like, I wanted to be very much independent for that year.

Now, if I could go back, I would have let her. If you asked anybody in my family they’d say that day I was being very a big a-hole, because I wanted to make sure everything was precise. And, I just wanted to make sure everything was the way I wanted it to go. If I could go back, I would let her have helped me, because I was broke after that.

And she took so many pictures of me that day. I had to fake smile, because she kept taking pictures. Before I ever got to the actual prom venue, she had sent me 1,000 pictures. I think it was just because she loved dressing up, and I don’t. I think that was her thing.

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JU’NIYAH, 18; TAMIKA; BREONNA, 25

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It was my mom’s motorcycle club. They were having a party on The Belle of Louisville. And, I was actually able to go for the first time in my life. So I went and I went with them. Actually, we had pretty much a lot of fun that night. My mom and my sister kept dancing, and I kept trying to tell them they couldn’t dance. I told them they were embarrassing. They can twerk, but they can’t dance.

The motorcycle club is basically a group of people. They ride motorcycles together, they do events together. It’s kind of like us having a second family and brothers and sisters. So they were just all close. And they always treated me and Breonna like we were their nieces. And that picture, Breonna has on my mom’s jacket, and I had on my mom’s friend’s jacket.

That night, my sister and Kenny was in the car rapping. Rapping in the car on their way home. It was funny. We got home at one that night. He was there that entire night, too. He was asleep on the boat.

If I could, I would go back and enjoy the moment even more.

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COCKFIGHT CRUSADES

ILLINOIS MAN IS ON A MISSION, EXPOSES KENTUCKY RING

By Bruce Rushton | brushton@illinoistimes.com [Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the Illinois Times] MY first unforgettable cockfight was when I was 4-5 years old. My father has a black henny of Philippine Game strain which was decoupled early in the fight. Broke both two legs it seems. Down on the ground. But he is very feisty and game, pecking and trying to get up. Wings flopping to move and to stay engaged with the opponent, I think, a red cock of American Game strain. The red cock cannot finish him right there on the ground. Then with all his strength he managed to elevate himself in the air with his strong wings. He then landed a deadly blow for some reason with broke two legs and all. Well, it was a come from behind win for us.

B.L. “Billy” Cozad, a fourth-generation cockfighter who raises roosters in Oklahoma, wrote this on his web page devoted to blood sport that’s illegal in 50 states, plus the District of Columbia. Congress and former president Donald Trump added Puerto Rico to the list two years ago.

“I already told my wife, and I told my mother, that anyone who comes and tries to take one of my roosters will have to kill me first,” Jose Torres, who lives in Puerto Rico, told National Public Radio in 2019. “And I’m not the only one. There are thousands of us.” While cockfighting has been declining, Puerto Rican politicians have been loathe to oppose it, according to the NPR report – nearly 2,000 people, some bearing birds, marched to the Capitol building in San Juan after Trump signed a bill banning cockfighting in U.S. territories.

Feelings were no less strong last September at the Morgantown Community Center in Morgantown, Kentucky, where Cozad debated the merits of cockfighting with Steve Hindi, an Illinois animal rights activist who lives about 40 miles west of Chicago. A video doesn’t show the audience, but Hindi says about 30 people were there. Several, including Cozad, wore sidearms on their hips. Most were not on Hindi’s side.

The right to watch chickens battle to the death while bettors wager is enshrined in the Constitution, Cozad declares.

He can rattle off all the amendments – and there are many, plus the Declaration of Independence – that allow cockfighting. He talks about the United Nations and the Bible. Animal rights activists, he says, are pagans, communists and Nazis.

The FBI has called Hindi and his ilk the biggest domestic terrorist threat facing the United States, Cozad warns, and anyone who donates to an animal rights group risks getting ensnared in criminal investigations, same as people who give money to Al Qaeda. He does not mention a pending federal lawsuit filed by a Louisiana cockfighter who claims that raising birds and watching them kill each other is a religious practice, akin to Native Americans taking peyote.

Hindi’s point is simple.

“What part of illegal don’t you understand?” he asks Cozad. “If you’re going to claim to be a patriot, an American citizen, that means you live within the laws, does it not? Is there an argument about that? Of course there’s not.”

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“Actually, the definition of a patriot is…” interjects someone who is off camera. Hindi cuts him off.

“You’re the moderator,” he says to the interrupter who’s also been holding Hindi and Cozad to five minutes apiece in an argument that lasts nearly two hours.

“You know what I call terrorism?” Hindi continues.

“Someone calling up a courthouse and saying ‘I’m going to start shooting up courthouses.’”

Hindi then reads from a 2019 affidavit in support of an arrest warrant filed in Oklahoma, where Cozad got angry when a court clerk told him that he’d have to talk to a judge about changing an appearance date in a traffic case. According to the affidavit, Cozad asked the clerk if he’d have to start shooting up courthouses, like they do in Hungary, and he said that he felt sorry for any cop who tried to arrest him.

“I’m not going to jail, I won’t be arrested and yes, I carry a gun at all times,” Cozad stated when a detective called, according to the affidavit.

“This is his booking photo right here,” Hindi tells the audience as he holds it up. No big deal, Cozad maintains.

“Even the district attorney knew the accusations made against me were bullshit and dismissed charges and I didn’t even go to court for it,” he says.

This sort of confrontation is classic Hindi, a man who blasts the Humane Society and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for what he deems flawed approaches as readily as he goes after cockfighters and others whom he believes abuse and torture innocent creatures.

Hindi owns a rivet-manufacturing plant and has money to fight cockfighters via a nonprofit called Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) that he founded in 1994.

Admirers have included the late Bob Barker, host of “The Price Is Right,” who donated $1 million to SHARK a decade ago after the group fought Pennsylvania pigeon shoots that continue, with SHARK still protesting the killing.

Hindi has been beaten up by folks who don’t appreciate

him showing up with cameras, and he’s been arrested at least twice. He’s been whipped with a dog leash while trying to stop a pigeon shoot. He posts recordings of death threats on SHARK’s website. Eight or so drones used to document events where SHARK isn’t welcome have been shot down, Hindi says.

“I am frightened for him,” says Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator with the Humane Farming Association, a Californiabased animal rights group that has teamed with SHARK to battle cockfighting. “He definitely doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. He pushes the envelope, sometimes. He stands up for the animals better than anyone else we’ve worked with before.”

Hindi shows no signs of letting up.

“This is who I am,” he says. “This is what I do.”

CRUELTY AND CRIME

SHARK’s interest in cockfighting dates to 2018, when Hindi used a drone to get pictures of a rooster-raising operation in Monterey County, California, where an anti-cockfighting ordinance enacted in 2014 is stricter than a state ban enacted in 1905. The county ordinance prohibits keeping more than five roosters without a permit, and the owner of the sheds filled with birds didn’t have one. Under pressure from SHARK and other animal protection groups, the sheds were dismantled in 2019. But the battle wasn’t over.

Last year, SHARK and the Humane Farming Association sued Monterey County, claiming that the health department wasn’t enforcing the county ordinance. The groups gave the county 31 addresses, plus parcel numbers, of suspected

illegal rooster keepers, according to the lawsuit, but nothing was done. The lawsuit is on hold pursuant to an agreement reached last month with the county, which has promised to form an anti-cockfighting task force and determine whether people are breaking the law at the addresses provided by SHARK and the Humane Farming Association.

Hindi credits coronavirus for escalating SHARK’s war against cockfights.

Until last year, rodeos had been a bigger target for SHARK. Hindi suspects that SHARK footage of livestock being jabbed with sharp objects and jolted with electric prods convinced organizers of the National High School Rodeo Finals, last held at the state fairgrounds in 2007, to stop coming to Springfield. Pressured by SHARK, the Illinois Department of Agriculture determined that laws had been broken, but the late John Schmidt, then Sangamon County state’s attorney, said that investigators could not identify culprits, and no charges were filed.

“COVID-19 shut down most of the rodeos,” Hindi says.

“We’re not the kind of group that’s going to just sit around.”

COVID hasn’t stopped cockfights, which can draw dozens of spectators who rarely wear masks, according to SHARK and its allies. In the Philippines, where cockfighting is both legal and popular, authorities shut down fighting pits after 11 deaths from COVID last spring were traced to a cockfighting derby. A Filipino police officer who was enforcing the ban died while breaking up a cockfight in October, when a rooster with razor-sharp metal fighting spurs strapped to its legs slashed a femoral artery.

The Los Angeles County Public Health Department blamed a 2002 outbreak of virulent Newcastle disease, a virus that kills poultry, to cockfighting. It was the second of three major outbreaks in California since 1971. Nearly four million birds were destroyed at a cost of almost $170 million to control the 2002 outbreak. The disease can spread to humans, although symptoms are mild or nonexistent. Cockfighting foes note that handlers of fighting roosters sometimes suck blood from beaks of wounded birds. In 2005, a World Health Organization official told the Washington Post that cockfighting might have helped spread avian flu from birds to humans.

Beyond public health, there is crime, and cockfights, besides being illegal in their own right, have plenty, according to cockfighting foes who point to police raids. In May, Polk County sheriff’s deputies in Florida arrested 14 people after finding cocaine, firearms, hundreds of live birds, charred remains of roosters and suspected performanceenhancing drugs for fighting cocks along with a disassembled fighting ring caked with feathers. In 2016, 40 people were arrested by police in Midland, Texas, who found 46 ounces of cocaine, guns, more than $30,000 and 30 live roosters, plus several dead ones. Admission was as high as $100, with beer selling for $2. Two years ago, an Oregon man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for trafficking nearly three pounds of methamphetamine and selling fighting animals. Cops found more than 200 roosters on the defendant’s property – a single bird, he admitted, or boasted, could fetch $500.

Cruelty. Public health. Crime. A Triple Crown for animal rights activists who might otherwise have trouble getting folks who eat chicken to pay attention. With rodeos scarce, Hindi got busy.

“IT’S NOT ILLEGAL”

Kentucky proved easy pickings but a tough nut to crack.

Last June, SHARK used hidden cameras to record two sheriff’s deputies at a Kentucky cockfight – video shows them chatting with folks next to the fight pit. “They’re fighting roosters, that’s what’s happening,” a Clay County sheriff’s deputy told Hindi when he called. “It’s not illegal in the state of Kentucky.” Clay County Sheriff Patrick Robinson wasn’t perturbed.

“I’ve got more problems to deal with than two roosters fighting,” the sheriff told the Lexington Herald-Leader when SHARK went to the media.

Cockfighting in Kentucky is a misdemeanor and an open secret. Stu Chaifetz, a SHARK investigator, says that activists had no trouble documenting fights. “You just paid your money and walked right in,” he recalls. Cuttin Up Game Farm, which raises roosters in eastern Kentucky, is run by a captain at the Harlan County jail, according to SHARK, and his son, a former guard at the same lockup. In 2019, SHARK found pictures of both men on the farm’s Facebook page, posing with trophies and roosters. “We showed in seven derbies, got in the money four times and lost two money fights,” one of them posted along with a photo. The post has since been taken down. The farm’s Facebook page now features pictures of roosters, aka battle fowl – make an offer.

In a 2019 email, Kentucky State Police told SHARK that a prosecutor had informed police that the state’s animal cruelty laws apply only to four-legged creatures, which isn’t true, according to former Kentucky attorney general Chris Gorman, who’s said that courts have upheld the law. Hindi has alternately praised and condemned state police in Kentucky, saying in November that state cops shut down cockfights reported by SHARK last summer. A month later, Hindi said that state police did nothing to stop upcoming cockfights after SHARK sent police a copy of a flier advertising fights scheduled through the end of March. A Kentucky State Police spokesman declined an interview request from Illinois Times, telling a reporter to submit questions in writing.

The feds stepped in a few years ago, with prosecutors sending a half-dozen people to prison in 2017 for running an 8,000-square-foot cockfighting facility in Kentucky that featured arena seating, several fighting pits and a restaurant.

The place had been in business for 30 years, prosecutors said.

Hindi and a SHARK investigator met violence in Ohio on Jan. 3 after sending a drone aloft at a suspected cockfight.

A SHARK video shows a man slapping the drone controller from Hindi’s hands, then bashing it against a mailbox. “Oh, you got trouble, baby,” Hindi tells the man, who is wearing a hoodie emblazoned with a picture of a rooster. “You got the sheriff coming.”

“Drive!” someone orders Hindi’s companion, who obeys.

As the SHARK investigator leaves, Hindi is knocked to the ground. Two men, he says, kicked him several times, breaking a rib and gashing his head – the wound required six staples. “Last chance: Leave or you die here!” someone yells. Meanwhile, Hindi says, someone in a pickup truck chased down the investigator who’d departed, ramming his car several times before running him off the road and into a ditch. All of this is on video.

No charges have been filed, but Hindi, who plans a lawsuit, says that SHARK expects justice from the courts.

In a video posted three days after the confrontation, Hindi addresses cockfighters directly, asking whether the lost drone looked like the one he holds in his hand. The camera zooms out to show three more displayed in front of him.

“Did you stupid asses think that was the only one?” Hindi asks. “In that case, let me introduce you to some of my little friends. Yeah – these drones can see you when you can’t see them at all, and I’m going to prove that to you.”

“THIS SHERIFF IS SERIOUS”

Three weeks after the beating, Hindi is in North Carolina, where he’s heard that a cockfight is in the offing near Wilkesboro. He won’t say how he knows this. SHARK, which has set up a cockfighting hotline, encourages tips from neighbors.

North Carolina last summer became the 32nd state to make cockfighting a felony, and Hindi is encouraged by conversations with local law enforcement. “This sheriff is serious,” Hindi says.

The goal is to stop the fights before they start. If cops raid a cockfight already underway, roosters are seized and euthanized, Hindi says, while their owners go home and raise more birds. Better, he says, to keep birds alive while shutting down fight venues.

Setting up a cockfight takes time, and so Hindi rises early in hopes of spotting cockfighters as they arrive with bird-weighing scales and other equipment – spectators are expected at 11 a.m. Greg Campbell and his son, Chad, who live about 300 miles away, are here to help. Greg Campbell, a real estate investor and former Illinois resident, has known Hindi since the 1990s, when SHARK videotaped deer being netted in DuPage County, then killed with bolt guns, the kind used to dispatch cattle. The DuPage County Forest Preserve District has since switched to sharpshooters.

“If we see anything, we call police and let them do their job,” Hindi tells the Campbells before heading out.

It’s illegal to conduct surveillance of private property with drones in North Carolina, so Hindi and the Campbells will watch the road leading to the suspected cockfighting site, which is amid woods a considerable distance from pavement. “We’re not going down that road,” Hindi says.

“That would be insane.” Laws notwithstanding, is it ethical to use drones to catch cockfighters on private land? “If someone’s beating their child on private property, do you do nothing about it?” Greg Campbell asks.

This is a rural area, and a parade of vehicles on a Saturday morning can only mean that something’s up. Communication will be key as Hindi and Greg Campbell take turns driving past the turnoff road leading to the target – if one of them encounters trouble, the other needs to know. Cellphone coverage is sketchy, and walky-talky signals don’t travel far.

“We’ll pull out the satellite phone if we need it,” Hindi says.

“It’s a pain in the ass, though.”

The bust proves a bust. After a couple hours of seeing nothing, Hindi and the Campbells depart. Hindi isn’t overly discouraged. “We did get a local tip,” he says. “It was a good tip.” He thinks that SHARK is making a difference – the cockfighters might have canceled, he says, for fear of getting caught.

“You miss, a little bit, the adrenaline rush, but there was no fight,” Hindi says. “Which is good.” •

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COVID CANCELS CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING MATCH IN LOUISVILLE

By Carolyn Brown | leo@leoweekly.com

THE RABBI, the ring, the redemption — it would have been a perfect story for boxer Yuri Foreman.

Then came the fatigue.

Then the fever.

Foreman, 40, a former world championship boxer, who is also an ordained rabbi, was scheduled to fight Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams, 34, for the American Boxing Federation super welterweight championship on Saturday, March 6, at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Foreman pulled out of the fight after experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.

On Sunday night, he tested positive.

“I have never pulled out from a fight before. I am in my 20th year as a professional boxer, one of the most vital lessons I’ve learned is that any time you step into the ring, you are literally risking your health and your life,” he wrote in a Facebook statement. “From Friday night all through Saturday, I felt ill and was not in any condition to perform safely.”

For Foreman, a win would have been life-changing. He won the WBA welterweight world championship when he defeated Daniel Santos in 2009. He became Israel’s first world champion boxer. He even played “Russian Fighter Yuri” in the 2009 Channing Tatum movie, “Fighting,” in which he sends Tatum’s character to the ground with a single punch — before Tatum ultimately smashes his head into a water fountain.

But since his Yankee Stadium fight against Miguel Cotto in 2010, when he slipped in the ring and injured his knee, he’s set his sights on once again winning a title — and where better to do so than in Muhammad Ali’s hometown, at a venue on Muhammad Ali Boulevard, less than ten minutes from Ali’s childhood home?

Foreman and his wife, Shoshana, a reiki practitioner who is also his manager, arrived at the Center on Friday afternoon from Brooklyn to do a weigh-in with Williams. Foreman’s weight: 150; Williams weighed in a little over 152. Not long after he arrived, Yuri, wearing a mask emblazoned with his “lion of Zion” logo, sat down on the stairs, leaning his head back in exhaustion and closing his eyes. His photographer and videographer circled around him, getting shots of Yuri’s moment of tranquility.

As boxers often do before weigh-ins, Yuri had been dieting for a month before Friday afternoon; he had also been working out daily. Everything he eats is vegan, organic and kosher, a meal plan that Shoshana oversees. It’s totally

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Yuri Foreman.

normal for a boxer to feel fatigued before a weigh-in, usually because of the dehydration. He drank a bottle of electrolyte water almost immediately after he put his clothes back on.

Back in his room at the Brown Hotel, he started eating his preportioned foods again.

He and Shoshana weren’t worried about that Friday tiredness, though. They were worried about their flights from the day before, from JFK to Charlotte, then to Louisville.

Although the couple had decided to call off the fight Saturday morning, the news wasn’t public yet, nor were the Foremans giving out interviews. It was Shabbat, the period between Friday night and Saturday night during which Orthodox Jews cannot use electronic devices like phones or laptops. (Because Yuri was the headliner, his fight would not have started until well after sunset at 10 p.m., following bouts between other boxers.)

Only a few sources confirmed the cancellation: an Instagram post from March 6 by boxer Jimmy Williams (@ jimmyqswilliams), which read, “The Fight is off Sorry.. @ foremanyuri Chicken out ... This is bad for boxing,” then an Instagram post by boxing manager Ryan Roach (@

ryanroach82), which said that the fight had been canceled “due to illness,” then a brief article on Fightnews.com in the late afternoon.

Later that night, Shoshana told LEO that Yuri was dealing with extreme fatigue but not a fever. She canceled their flight and rented a car rather than risk more exposure on a plane — their own or anyone else’s.

On Sunday afternoon, about six hours before his test results were confirmed, Yuri released a public statement on his Facebook page explaining the cancellation. He thanked Shoshana for her work and financial support throughout his road to reclaiming his title, as well as his coach, Ilya Mesishchev, for his time and training.

“We are all taking risks stepping out into the world during this pandemic. Sometimes taking all the precautions isn’t enough,” Foreman said. “There are always opportunities to find strength and make the responsible decisions for the greater good of all involved, even if it isn’t immediately apparent.”

He announced his positive COVID-19 results via social media on Monday. •

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March InKY Reading Series

Virtual | Zoom | louisvilleliteraryarts.org | Free | 7 p.m.

It is not yet time to return to The Bard’s Town for poetry readings over a plate of Titus Nacho-nicus. Instead, Louisville Literary Arts’ weekly author reading series is still virtual this month. But, the featured luminaries are as bright as ever. Log on to Zoom READ to hear from three Kentucky poets. The first, Frank X Walker was Kentucky’s first African American poet laureate and co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, who recently released a collection called “Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems.” makalani bandele is another member of the Affrilachian Poets whose most recent collection “under the aegis of a winged mind” won the 2019 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. And finally, you’ll hear from Britton Shurley, the author of the chapbook “Spinning the Vast Fantastic” and an associate professor of English at West Kentucky Community & Technical College in Paducah, Kentucky. —Danielle Grady

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

Lexington Comedy Takeover Presented By Full Circle Comedy

21st Amendment Germantown | 1481 S. Shelby St. | Search Facebook | $10 in advance, $15 at door | 9 p.m.

Louisville and Lexington enjoy their share of rivalries. But they’re little, fun rivalries… like FUNNY who’s going to be able to talk shit about a basketball game for the next 350ish days? On the other hand, we share a lot of common interests and passions… thoroughbred racing, explosive-vomiting at the sound of Matt Bevin’s voice, etc. Oh, and our bevy of homegrown, stand-up comedians. Louisville’s Ehrin Dowdle hosts some of Lexington’s finest (funniest): Jeremiah Martin headlines “Lex Crusaders” with Greg Allen Cornett, Spencer Domolky and Jon Jennings. Louisville’s Will McKenzie will also be a special guest. All proceeds will go to helping a man who had a tree fall on his house… that’s not a joke, it’s sad… but the jokes are funny. —Aaron Yarmuth

SATURDAY, MARCH 13

#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor Memorial Event Injustice Square | 301 S. Sixth St. | Search Facebook | Free | 1 p.m.

March 13 marks one year since Breonna Taylor was killed by police. Since then, millions across the country and around the world have promised to BLACK LIVES MATTER say her name, and never stopped saying her name. March 13 will forever be a significant date in our city’s history. And on this March 13, it’s important we rally, together, in her name: We owe it to the memory and legacy of an innocent woman who was gunned down by police in her own home. We owe it to her family. We owe it to every other victim of police brutality and racial inequality. It’s on us to show up and say her name. —LEO

SATURDAY, MARCH 13

Inferno Collective Takeover

Tim Faulkner Gallery | 991 Logan St. | Search Facebook | No cover | 10 p.m.

The electronic music group of artists, the Inferno Collective, is once again taking over the Tim Faulkner gallery for a night of EDM. So, if you’re looking to dance FEEL THE BEAT the night — and the last year — away, in an environment that is taking safety protocol seriously, then this is your event. —LEO

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SATURDAY, MARCH 13

TUESDAY, MAR. 16

Zoom | Search Facebook | Free | 7-8:30 p.m.

Virtual | filsonhistorical.org | Free (Register at website) | 6 p.m.

With all of the other emergencies and critical issues facing our city, state and country (and world), it’s easy to lose sight of one of the most important issues of all: the EARTH climate. Good thing we can do several things at once. REAL, the Renewable Energy Alliance of Louisville, is working to bring Louisville into the fight against climate change. Their goal is to bring “a fast, fair, and just transition to 100% clean renewable energy for Metro operations by 2035 and community-wide by 2040.” Learn more about what is happening in our community to help save the climate and our planet. Speakers include Sam Avery and Roger Ohlman of REAL, Dawn Cooley of Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light, and Metro Councilperson Nicole George. Folk singer John Gage will also perform. You can find a link to register for the free Zoom event on the event’s Facebook page. —Aaron Yarmuth

Has our lockdown year dragged on even longer because of political polarity?

Perhaps there’d be less HISTORY chaotic anxiety if all were sure where those poles sat: the closer one, and the one embraced by “the other.” But we’d have to know what that other might rebel against. And why respecting the rule of law might resemble surrendering to oppression. Mary Beth Norton can point us toward an important year that similarly stretched Americans toward the breaking point. The Cornell historian is giving a presentation on her book “1774: The Long Year of Revolution,” available courtesy of the Filson Historical Society, with some help from Carmichael’s Bookstore and SimpleTix. Norton thoroughly opens up the period between the Boston Tea Party and the battles of Lexington and Concord. Our nation’s founders weren’t of a single mind over how to respond to the Intolerable Acts. Potentially greater understanding is here for the taking.—T.E. Lyons

REAL Good News: Local Action For Climate Change Resistance—Colonial Style

Mary Beth Norton will speak at the Filson Club

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17

St. Patrick’s Day Celebration — Green Beer Tapping Floyd County Brewing Company | 129 W. Main St. | Search Facebook | Noon

SUNDAY, MARCH 14

Recycled Art And More!

Falls of the Ohio State Park | 201 W. Riverside Dr. | fallsoftheohio.org/event | $2 | 3-4 p.m.

Learning about sustainability and conservation might not sound like a lot of fun. On the other hand, creating unique sculptures out of items salvaged from the Ohio River ART (trash) is a great, fun way to stimulate the imagination… while learning about sustainability and conservation. The program is led by IU Southeast intern Katie Green. The event will be held outside, weather permitting. —LEO

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On St. Patrick’s Day, Floyd County Brewing will be doing their Leprechaun’s Green tapping at noon, but they have some entertainment planned for later on, GREEN ALL DAY so don’t worry if you want to stop by but can’t spend a weekday lunch hour boozing. There will be live music at 7 p.m., and they have a massive space, so it’ll make for a nice, socially-distanced celebration. —LEO

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‘On The Road’ By Robert Halliday

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery | 2400 Lime Kiln Lane | kentuckyfineartgallery.com | Free Robert Halliday likes to travel, which is evident from the ART abundance of paintings he did of America and abroad. There are around 50 pieces in his current show, some done on location, others after Halliday returned home.

“Many of these are a product of fun, interesting trips with my wife Ange,” said Halliday. “It has been like fishing. You head out enthusiastically every day hoping to come back in the evening with a couple of big ones!” The Kentucky Fine Art Gallery is housed inside Leslie H. Spetz Custom Picture Framing & Gallery. —Jo Anne Triplett

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‘G.W. Morrison at 200’

Carnegie Center for Art and History | 201 E. Spring St., New Albany | carnegiecenter. org | Free George William Morrison is a little-known 19th century New Albany artist. Although born in Baltimore, his 50-year career was spent mostly in Southern Indiana. The retrospecART tive marks the bicentennial of his birth, and was curated by Al Gorman, coordinator of public programs and engagement at the Carnegie, which has the largest collection of Morrison’s work, including the recently-discovered “Prize Livestock of Thornburgh Farm.” It was bought at a local auction, restored and unveiled to the public for the first time in this exhibition.— Jo Anne Triplett

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LOCAL RECORDING LABEL KR8VN8VS SPENT 2020 PREPARING FOR 2021 AND A LOT OF NEW MUSIC IS COMING

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com GETTING INTO the music industry is tough for young artists. Often, it is as gated as any community of affluence and nothing short of being the child of a star or somehow adjacent to someone famous can get one through the door.

Kr8vN8vs Records founder, Romell Weaver was not satisfied with this.

“Kr8vN8vs, started from me just wanting to cut red tape as far as submitting things and having that record label tag,” Weaver said. “It was really just me putting a stamp on myself to get it through some doors that wouldn’t open at first.”

Weaver started making music as a young child back in Racine, Wisconsin.

“I’ve been reading and playing music since I was about 7,” Weaver said. “And I’ve been writing...I wrote my first rap around 6 years old” “The first rap song I ever heard was, ‘I Need Love’ by LL Cool J.” LL Cool J set Weaver on a path that took him from Racine to the Air Force where he was based in Omaha, Nebraska to Louisville, Kentucky, where he and his wife Tae Weaver run the Kr8vN8vs label.

The label isn’t just about hip-hop though.

“We have a variety [of artists]. A lot of hip-hop. We have two R&B artists and we have Church Friends...we have a whole alternative rock band,” said Weaver.

“I started out wanting to do just hip-hop and I thought, ‘Why box myself in like that?’”

The pandemic stopped a lot of their activities last year. Weaver mentioned having tours set up which would have taken Kr8vN8vs artists across the country. When those tours had to cancel, they decided, as many artists did, to turn to the work.

They decided to invest in the business and equipment.

“To be honest, we beefed up our studio equipment, kept writing and collaborating,” said Weaver.

“We’re releasing a lot of new music throughout the year,” he said. “I’m on a roll right now. I plan on doing three singles a month for the rest of the year. All of the

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hip-hop artists are following suit. ProNoun, he’s got music coming. Dom B is working on stuff.”

Another project that is important to Weaver is to finally get Kr8vN8vs their RIAA certification. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade organization of the recording industry, helping to promote the work of artists and labels.

Getting this certification means that, as Weaver puts it, “That’s like a huge thing for us because we’ll be truly recognized as a record label. We’ll be nationally recognized.”

Weaver also wants to be sure that artists with his label are able to purchase their master recordings when their contracts end.

“With the whole masters thing: The label will own masters until the guys are done, and once our contracts are done, they can take their ‘shit’ and go if they want.

Essentially, they can buy their masters for 10% of what it made.”

For artists to have the opportunity to purchase masters is rare and to have them be able to do so at a low rate is also unusual. This is important to the relationships Weaver wants with his artists. He doesn’t want to own their careers; he wants to be able to help their careers.

“I want them to know how to do everything themselves,” he said. “At the end of the day, if they want to leave my label...I don’t want you to go and be on your ass.”

To prevent that, he does education with the artists, showing them how to secure their registrations and to understand the language of papers they might be asked to sign.

After a long 2020, Weaver is just ready to get things moving and to begin working on some of his larger goals for the label, including getting his artists in front of live audiences.

“We’re ready for the world to get unlocked so we can get back to doing shows.” •

trapkingkai, Kr8vN8vs hip-hop artist

Founder of Kr8vN8vs Romell Weaver

Kr8vN8vs rock band, Church Friends

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The Fishery’s fried Icelandic cod platter features a generous portion of three fillets and two sides.. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

FOR A long time, I had my doubts about the trope that Louisville really loves its fish so much that we sell more cod than any other city except Boston, the home of the bean and … well, you know. Yeah, we love those fried cod sandwiches like the delights from The Fishery.

I didn’t realize how much we love our fried cod sandwiches, though, until we moved to New York City in the early 1990s.

Guess what: No matter how much I craved, I couldn’t get a good old Louisville-style fried cod sandwich anywhere. I am not considering Mickey D’s Filet-O-Fish in this discussion.

Okay, I can’t rule out the possibility of finding a decent, mild white fish sandwich in, say, the Midwest and Great Lakes region.

But when I checked with some seafood purveyors for a 2012 piece about Louisville’s cod consumption, I learned that it’s true: We really were up there close to Boston.

So spare me your hot browns and your benedictine. Louisville’s true iconic dish is the fried cod sandwich. I’ll take mine on rye!

We’re more than halfway through Lent now. If that matters to you, you’ll want to get your fish on soon. As for me, I’ll head for The Fishery any time.

I’ve been a fan of The Fishery since it opened in 1983. Current co-owners Matt Clark and Carol Clark-Kassai, the second ownership generation, have been in charge for 18 years, says the restaurant’s website, which declares its cod sandwich “the best fish sandwich in town.” That’s a tough race to call, but I certainly agree it’s a contender.

The menu is concise but offers plenty of choices. The Icelandic cod alone affords a choice of four plates: A six-ounce fried cod sandwich ($8.45, plus $2.95 more for two sides); a baked cod platter ($13.95 with two sides); a little 3-ounce sandwich for kiddos or seniors ($4.25); or our invariable pick, the 10-ounce fried cod platter with two sides ($13.95).

But wait, as they say: There’s more!

Rounding out the seafood and fish options are a blackened catfish platter ($11.95), a grilled Gulf shrimp platter ($13.95), a crab cake sandwich ($6.85) and a cat-

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fish sandwich ($8.95). There’s also clam, shrimp, or oyster po’boys ($7.25-$9.25), as well as oyster, crab cake, catfish, clam strip, shrimp or salmon croquette platters ($10.95-$14.55).

Don’t care for seafood or fish? You can still enjoy chicken and dumplings (from $3.99 for a cup to $12.95 for a quart), chicken strips ($9.55), or chicken livers ($9.55) and more. Four soup options come by the cup, bowl or quart. There’s a squadron of some 15 sides, most at $1.99, for you to choose from.

We have a standard operating procedure here: Start with that fried Icelandic cod platter, take the two sides that come with it and add two or three more, including a couple of soups, and you’ve got a great meal for two at a price for one-and-a-half.

So, let’s talk about that Icelandic cod sandwich platter: Just $13.95 gets you 10 ounces of fish – three big fillets – plus that choice of two sides. We have this often, and it has never failed us. Take your pick of rye bread, white bread or a white bun, and notice that rye is the first choice. That’s because rye is Louisville’s heritage choice for fish sandwiches, and there’s a reason for that: It tastes just right.

The cod fillets are pure white, flaky and mild, as they should be, perfectly fried with cornmeal breading that wraps the fillet like a blanket. They survived the trip home in excellent condition, with two slices of light seeded rye packed separately. Three small tubs of not-so-special tartar sauce, mostly mayonnaise, weren’t up to the rest, but the fine fish didn’t really need it.

Loading up on sides, we got mac and cheese and fresh coleslaw with the fish and separately ordered onion rings ($1.99) and

cups of vegetable soup and clam chowder ($2.99).

The mac and cheese was a standard stove-top style — tender elbow noodles in thick, creamy mild cheese sauce. Suitable for kids and adults, it’s no gourmet treat. So what?

The slaw was good, too, chopped very fine with bits of carrot and green onion and mixed with a creamy, sweet-tangy dressing.

The clam chowder was unexpectedly disappointing. This pasty, gravy-like mass was so heavy with flour thickening that a spoon could remain upright in it. It was filled mostly with cubed potatoes plus a little green onion and a smallish ration of clam bits.

The vegetable soup, on the other hand, was remarkably good — so good that it made me wonder if my grandmother had come back to life and whipped up her specialty for us all. It’s a meatless version, but don’t judge this savory blend of mixed veggies — potatoes, cabbage, corn, carrots, peas, beans, onions and tomato dice — swimming in a tantalizing, slightly spicy tomato soup. Please, sir, may I have some more?

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STUDIO VISIT: DANIEL PFALZGRAF OF WHEELHOUSE ART

By Melissa Chipman | leo@leoweekly.com

WheelHouse Art interior

Pfalzgraf by Yoko Molotov

THE ART FRAMING BUSINESS HAS BEEN BOOMING during the pandemic. Daniel Pfalzgraf, owner of WheelHouse Art, supposes that’s because people have been trapped in their houses, staring at their walls.

Pfalzgraf bought the B. Deemer Gallery from Brenda Deemer earlier this year after having spent eight years as a staff member there before leaving to do curatorial work at The Green Building, Zephyr Gallery, the Speed on Market, and eventually the Carnegie Museum for Art and History in New Albany. His return to

the traditional gallery and framing business is marked by his creation of a new brand, WheelHouse Art, that will cover a different and distinct kind of work.

“I’ve always thought of myself as a dot-connector,” Pfalzgraf said. Leaning on this skill, he’s looking to make WheelHouse Art a “comprehensive art hub” for the city to make it easier for people to participate in the art world.

That means if someone is looking to buy art, have art framed, professionally hung, resold, shipped, appraised or restored, it can all be done through

WheelHouse Art, either in-house or on the rare occasion through subcontractors. He didn’t call it “onestop shopping,” but that’s definitely the vibe.

Pfalzgraf’s goal is to “remove the barriers to experiencing art.”

In service to that goal, he’s just launched a new website, which he designed himself, that makes it easier to access the art and framing parts of the business. He hopes the site will help expand his market.

Looking to the future, Pfalzgraf’s WheelHouse Art plans on offering digital art as well and perhaps, with help from investors, WheelHouse will step into the crypto art marketplace in the next few years.

Crypto art is a category of art related to blockchain technology and is digital art that is published in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) directly to the blockchain. In this way, purely digital

WheelHouse Art owner/artist Daniel Pfalzgraf

artworks can be bought, sold or collected by anyone in a decentralized manner.

Crypto art is burgeoning business during the pandemic, sometimes to an almost baffling degree.

On March 1, Reuters reported that in October 2020, “Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million dollars.”

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | ART One of the boons of digital art is that it is often open to “smart contracts” which means that in the purchase agreement for a piece of digital art there can be a stipulation that the artist always gets a commission whenever the art is resold on the secondary market. Typically, in the secondary markets of traditional, physical pieces of art, Pfalzgraf said, artists“get screwed.”

Pfalzgraf hopes that he can start paying royalties on the secondary market for traditional art as well.

“Connecting the dots” between art and new markets is not new for Pfalzgraf.

One of his most noteworthy accomplishments was spearheading the Flow skate park on the New Albany riverfront.

Pfalzgraf said that he wanted to use art to improve the environment of New Albany, improve the skate park space and get people out and gathering. The New Albany Flow Park encourages “athletic and creative type of activities.”

As the curator at Carnegie, Pfalzgraf took advantage of a 2010 initiative to create public art in New Albany. He saw that Gen Z was putting more value in experiences than in static art. A lifelong skateboarding enthusiast, Pfalzgraf directed the partnership between the Carnegie and the City of New Albany and others to revitalize the dilapidated riverfront skate park, built in the mid ‘90s.

At every step of the planning and design, Pfalzgraf and Hunger Skateparks, out of Bloomington, Indiana, engaged with the people who would use the park.

Previous city/museum partnerships in public art resulted in smaller, less permanent pieces — The New Albany Flow Park took four and a half years to plan and build, and Pfalzgraf expects it could last 20–30 years with regular upkeep.

The $500,000 project continues to attract a conservative estimate of 6,000 people each year — diverse people, people not targeted by the traditional art world, typically.

Expanding the diversity in galleries — both in artists and in customers — is a work in progress, said Pfalzgraf. In addition to becoming an art hub for the city, look for B. Deemer/WheelHouse Art to be expanding its roster of artists, marketing to new audiences, and broadening its appeal beyond clients who feel safe in “their own bubbles” in the near future.

“It’s good business,” he said. •

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THE SPEED ART MUSEUM PAYS REVERENCE TO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF BREONNA TAYLOR

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com

ON APRIL 7, the Speed Art Museum will open a show dedicated to the life of Breonna Taylor and the worldwide events and protests that followed after her murder. In a city still in the grips of pain and division, “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” is a major step for a large institution to put itself directly in the midst of such a sensitive topic. For the Speed, it represents a challenge to itself to be a better steward of arts to the whole community and not just a select few.

“It’s been a year in which everything going on in Louisville has challenged us to think about how an art museum serves its community at times like this,” said Stephen Reily, director of the Speed. “As the year went on, we really thought about what an institution, and communities that are going through trauma, are supposed to do. How do we each find our way to help? Our way is art.”

To spearhead the project, the Speed tapped Allison Glenn whose long resume of community and creative engagement put her at the top of the list of people who could pull together the many moving parts of a show like this. Glenn’s other work includes a position as associate curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, work with Prospect in New Orleans and Fore at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has written for

Amy Sherald, Breonna Taylor, 2020

Art Papers, Hyperallergic and Art21 magazine.

“Art helps us understand the moment,” Glenn explained when asked why Breonna Taylor’s life and death have inspired so much artmaking. Glenn adds that her life and murder “represents a lot” about who we all are and experiences we’ve all had.

For a major museum to take on such a project seems unusual, and Glenn said that “museums often represent a tone deafness and haven’t reflected the contemporary cultural moment.”

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | ART She feels it is time to address these issues head on.

In response, she pulled together a team of national advisors that included strategists like Mecca Brooks, artists and art facilitators like Theaster Gates, Jon-Sesrie Goff, Amy Sherald, Hank Willis Thomas, historian Dr. Allison K. Young and members of other families touched by police and racist violence such as Raymond Green (cousin of Alton Sterling and retired military officer) and La Keisha Leek (artist advocate and cousin of Trayvon Martin.)

The work of the Speed’s Community Engagement Strategist Toya Northington helped put in place a team in Louisville that included the family of Breonna Taylor, a team of artists, activists, researchers, community members and mental health professionals to help shape the local timbre of the show.

“The challenge is blending those voices,” Northington said. “Finding a way that we are actually reflecting on Breonna Taylor but it also reflects on it from a national pandemic — as a means of saying, ‘Okay, Breonna Taylor is a part of a larger issue,’ but also making sure we capture the local issue. So what specifically her killing meant to us and means to us. For a lot of the Black community, that changed our lives forever.”

It is important that the show, which will include both national and local artists and participants, serves the place and community in which it opens. Getting to this point hasn’t been simple with so many voices at the table.

“It’s not an easy thing to do because there are so many different points of view. Black people aren’t a monolith, we all have different perspectives and ways

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and methods,” said Northington. “But also artists are different and their ways and perspectives are different. You have a lot of creative people in the room, and we’re really wanting to collaborate and co-create.”

For Glenn, the guiding light has been how the family feels about the show.

“We’re actually a part of the exhibit team,” said Ju’Niyah Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s sister. “So we’re working with them as they’re doing that. So, I actually think it’s a nice idea.”

According to Palmer, the family has decided to include some of Breonna’s personal things in the show. What those will be hasn’t been decided, but the show promises to touch those who knew her and those who should know about her.

The show, and parking, will be free and open to the public. •

‘PROMISE, WITNESS, REMEMBRANCE’

Skittles - Introducing the beautiful and magical Skittles! Skittles is an eight-year-old Domestic Shorthair kitty who came to the Kentucky Humane Society from an overcrowded shelter. When she arrived, she was feeling quite under the weather. She spent time in foster care where she recovered and we learned more about her. Skittles is a friendly, but independent, kitty who likes time for herself as well as time with her people. She loves to play during the evenings and her favorite toys include felt “string on a stick” toys and she also likes kick toys with catnip’. When Skittles is tired of the attention, she will walk off to have her alone time. Skittles would be a great companion for a family who doesn’t want a “needy” best friend, she’s more like a quiet roommate.

She tested positive for FIV or Feline Immunodeficiency Virus but with regular vet care, she can live a long and healthy life like any other cat. Skittles has shown she would like to be the only cat in the house and she would prefer a quiet home with kids 5 and up. If you’re looking for a best friend who will love you but also give you your space, consider Skittles!

Skittles is spayed, micro-chipped and up-to-date on vaccinations.

Come meet her today by scheduling an appointment at the East Campus, 1000 Lyndon Lane, at kyhumane.org/cats.

Opens April 7 The Speed Art Museum 2035 S 3rd St. speedmuseum.org

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

CUTTING REMARKS

Q: I’m having a problem advising a friend.

She’s been through a divorce and now the breaking off of an engagement. To put it simply, both relationships ended because she was cheated on and she has a zero-tolerance policy around infidelity. To complicate matters, in each relationship we—her friends— have witnessed her being very cutting to the point of being downright insulting to her former partners. She has a tendency to tease her partners about their deepest insecurities in public and to express her extreme disdain for their family members openly. I had a chance to speak to each of her former partners after the breakup and they expressed to me that they felt emasculated by her and that their self-esteem was shot and they had essentially “had enough.” However, neither have given her this feedback directly.

My friends and I have hinted to her about this pattern in the hopes of helping her see what her role might be in these breakups.

But she takes extreme offense to any criticism and insists she’s the victim. I’m sympathetic to her plight but her unwillingness to accept any responsibility makes it difficult to offer her any useful advice. I’ve been there for her, calling her daily, and stopping by when I could in a COVID-safe way. But every conversation turns into a three-hourlong rehashing of these relationships with all blame assigned to her exes. I've let a few weeks go by without reaching out because I don’t want to have another one of these conversations. I'm curious what you would do here. Our entire friend group is now debating whether we should share our actual opinions with her at the risk her being angry with us. The other option is to leave it alone and hope she comes to her own conclusions.

I wish her exes had the courage to tell her their true feelings.

No Brainpower For Clever Signoff A: Your friend must be one scary asshole—I mean, that would explain why her former romantic partners won’t tell her she’s an asshole and why her friends won’t tell her that her assholery has consequences. Like getting dumped. And while her exes should’ve broken up with her before cheating on her, NBFCS, it sounds like both opted to slam their hands down on the self-destruct button instead. And who can blame them? Maybe thought cheating would help them masc back up after enduring your friend’s emasculating abuse—and that would be pretty fucked up if they thought that—or maybe they wanted to punish your asshole friend by engineering breakups every bit as painful for her as these relationships had been for them.

But why they cheated isn’t the question. You’re wondering what, if anything, you should say to your friend about this pattern, i.e. that she’s an asshole who emotionally abuses her romantic partners and it makes you and the rest of her friends uncomfortable.

If you want your friend to know she’s an asshole and needs help, NBFCS, you’re going to have to say something. Assholes rarely have epiphanies. If you can’t bring yourself to say what you need to say to her asshole face, put it in a letter, ask your mutual friends to cosign, and email it to her. You might never hear from her again, NBFCS, but would that really be so terrible? Do you wanna be friends with someone who expects you to sit there silently while she verbally abuses her romantic partners and then expects you to sit and listen while she complains about her exes for hours? We both know the answer to that question, NBFCS, and it’s fuck no. You’ve already started to cut this woman out of your life—you’re in the process of breaking up with your friend—because her good qualities, whatever they might be, don’t compensate for her assholery. You’ve got nothing to lose by leveling with this woman except for her company, which you do not enjoy. You can’t condemn her exes for not having the courage to share their true feelings with her if you don’t have the courage to do the same.

Q: How do I know if a guy is a player or if he has feelings for me? This guy goes to my university and we had our eyes on each other for more than year. I made a move and sent him a friend request on FB and we started spending a lot time with each other.

The problem is, I am constantly finding him with other girls. He got to know my female friends and started talking them up too and he says the same things to them that he says to me. This made me really upset and I told him I wanted some space and asked him to stop contacting me but I couldn’t tell him the real reason. Instead I told him he was suffocating me with his attention (partly true) but he kept reaching out to tell me how much he misses me. He even told me he has feelings for me but he isn’t sure what they are and so can’t put a label on them and says I’m special to him and he gets insanely jealous whenever he sees me with other guys. Feel free to ask about for more details about our story if you’re interested.

Parsing Love And Yearning A: No more details. Please. While I’m sure every last detail is fascinating, PLAY, what you need to do here is obvious—it’s so obvious you’ve already tried to do it.

Zooming out for a second: “He’s a player,” is just another way of saying, “He’s a liar.”

A player is a guy who tells someone what he thinks she wants to hear (“you’re so special to me”) to get into her pants. If a little play is all a person wants—if some sexual attention and whole bunch of compliments you know to be bullshit are what you want—then it doesn’t matter if the guy is a player. His lies can go in one ear and out the other at the same time his dick goes in and out of you. But if you want something serious with this guy and you know you’re being played, that’s going to be painful.

And if you want something serious with someone and you’re hanging around with or fucking a player, that’s a waste of your time.

So, PLAY, do that thing again, that thing you already did, but stick to it this time. Tell this guy to stop contacting you, unfollow him on FB, and block his number and encourage your friends to do the same.

Q: Heterosexual, 30-something, female here.

For all of my sexual life, until recently, I really enjoyed having my nipples played with by my partners—during sex, as part of foreplay, fingers, clamps, lips, tongue, just about anything touching of my nipples was a turn-on and an orgasm-enhancer.

But something changed after witnessing my boyfriend’s sister breastfeeding her child. Something about seeing nipples being used for, well, what they’re meant to be used for, has really squicked me out. Now, when my boyfriend touches my nipples in the slightest way, I find it irritating, a little gross, and a huge turn-off. I think maybe this was the first time I’d seen breastfeeding in person? Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that it was my boyfriend’s sister? I don’t know! I don’t know why, but for whatever reason, seeing nipples in a different light has left me repulsed by the idea of using mine in a sexual way. If I’m close to orgasm, I can stand a little bit of nipple attention but nowhere near the amount I used to like. I want to enjoy nipple play again, Dan! Any advice for getting my nipples back? It’s been months!

Breasts Out Of Business Suddenly P.S. I don’t mean any offense whatsoever to those who breastfeed. It’s not the breastfeeding that I find squicky. It’s the idea of using my own breasts in a sexual way that has me suddenly feeling all conflicted and weirded out.

A: I don’t wanna ruin dick for you, BOOBS, but you do know men don’t just ejaculate out of those things, right? Dicks serve more than one purpose. Dicks and nipples both have specific non-sexual purposes (peeing and breastfeeding) as well as specific sexual functions (ejaculating and, um, erogenous zoning). There are a lot of sensitive nerve endings and erectile tissues in and around our nipples, both the male and female varieties, and our nipples— like our assholes and our throats—don’t just have a sexual use, they have a sexual purpose.

Considering that we have more sex than we do children, BOOBS, you could argue that their sexual use is their highest and best use.

Which means you aren’t misusing your nipples when you derive pleasure from having them licked, sucked, clamped, etc., BOOBS, you are enjoying your nipples just as nature—natural selection and spontaneous mutation—intended them to be enjoyed.

And if thinking about breastfeeding squicks you out, don’t think about it—just like you don’t think about piss when you suck your boyfriend’s dick and I don’t think about shit when I eat my boyfriend’s ass. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. www.savagelovecast.com

CLASSIFIED LISTINGS LEGAL

REPOSSESSION SALE

These vehicles will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the time, date and place stated below. Term of sale is cash only. Seller reserves the right to bid and purchase at said sale. Dealers welcome.

March 16th, 11:00 A.M.

2008 Mazda 3 2008 Buick Lacrosse

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DIXIE AUTO SALES

(502) 384-7766 (NEXT TO ZIP’S CAR WASH) 7779 DIXIE HWY., LOUISVILLE, KY 40258

AT&T Mobility, LLC is proposing to modify telecommunications equipment at a centerline height of 120 feet on an existing 105-foot building located at 817 West Market Street, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (N38° 15’ 23.2”; W85° 45’ 51.8”). AT&T Mobility, LLC invites comments from any interested party on the impact the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under National Historic Preservation Act Section 106. Comments may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, GA 30004 or via email to publicnotice@ eca-usa.com. Ms. Howell can be reached at (770) 667-2040 during normal business hours. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice. X0615 DMG

The following will be sold at Tony's Wrecker Service 3311 Collins Ln. 426-4100 to recover towing-storage fees on March 12th 2021 8 a.m.

Titles not warranted. Seller reserves the right to bid, 08 Chev. Aveo VIN#KL1TD56628B190613 Owner Jorge Jarrosay. 09 Toyota Corolla VIN#1NXBU40E39Z091119 Owner Larry Howard.

Notice of Self-Storage Contents Sale—Unboxy Self Storage intends to sell the contents of one of its storage units through a public auction, unit number Large 13. The auction will be held online on March 14, 2021 at 8:00am at https://www.storagetreasures.com/auctions/detail/1381454; Auction ID No. 1381454. The sale is subject to the terms and conditions listed on the aforesaid auction site. The sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice.

Legal Notification to Transportation Network Carriers/Phil Belyew,Jr from Pendleton Trailer Service 3820 Fitzgerald Rd Louisville,KY. 40216. 502-7781157. To recover unpaid storage fees We will sell unit 53810 make WAB model ST yr 2011 veh id# 1JJV532D8BL406352 on March 31 2021 at 1pm at 3820 Fitzgerald Rd Louisville, KY 40216.

Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 2009 Nissan Altima Grey VIN # 1N4AL24E69C167767, Owner Jose Mayo 7713 Greta Ave 40258 Lien Holder: None Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice.

Leo’s Towing & Recovery, 510 E Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 (502)-727-9503, has intention to obtain title of a 2004 Cadi cts red VIN #1G6DM577240109509, Owner NATION AUTO SALES ii LLC of 1523 s 30th st 40211 Lien Holder: none Unless owner or lienholder objects in written form within 14 days after the last publication of this notice.

Notice is hereby given by Nate's Automotive 400 E. Breckinridge St, Louisville, Ky 40203 (502)-408-773. Owner has 14 days to respond in writing to obtain title to the following: 2008 Chev Impala VIN-2G1WT58K781230633.

Owned by Keiwan Jackson 4508 Westport Woods #303,Louisville, Ky 40245.

Lein holder Rocky's Auto Sales 9108 Dixie Hwy,Louisville, Ky 40258, second lein Eagle Financial Serv 304 South 1st St., Lagrange, KY 40031.

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