Pay attention, we’ve been giving Niecy Nash-Betts her well-deserved flowers for her current Emmy Award win, however we haven’t mentioned sufficient about what an actual one she is for shouting out over-policed Black ladies like Breonna Taylor and Sandra Bland throughout her acceptance speech.
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Her gesture even caught the eye of Breonna’s mother who thanked her for placing her daughter’s title again within the highlight.
“I settle for this award on behalf of each Black and brown girl who has gone unheard and overpoliced,” mentioned Nash-Betts, who received the award for Finest Supporting Actress in a Restricted/Anthology Sequence or TV Film class for her function in Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. “Like Glenda Cleveland. Like Sandra Bland. Like Breonna Taylor.”
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So, moreover Taylor—who, time and time once more, has been denied justice for her demise by the hands of trigger-happy cops throughout a botched raid—Nash-Betts honored Cleveland, whom she portrayed within the movie, and Bland, who by no means obtained the identical huge wave of protests and media consideration Taylor and different victims of police violence like George Floyd received.
Not like Taylor, Bland wasn’t truly killed by a police officer. Her 2015 demise in a Texas jail cell was dominated a suicide, however we’ve seen footage, taken by police dashcam and by Bland herself, that confirmed her aggressive and violent arrest by a cop who refused to even clarify to her why she was being arrested. It was an important search for Nash-Betts to #SayHerName as soon as extra and assist guarantee it received’t get misplaced within the battle in opposition to injustice in America.
In the meantime, Tamika Palmer, Breonna’s mom, informed TMZ she was grateful to Nash-Betts and that it was “superb” of her to “acknowledge ladies, together with my daughter, who’ve tragically fallen sufferer to police brutality.”
“The shortage of accountability for these injustices is simple, and it’s essential for us to maintain saying their names and reminding individuals of the profound impression of their loss,” Tamika Palmer continued.
We’ve got to maintain saying their names. That’s a part of the battle. If we don’t, who will?
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