Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James revealed some of his discussions with Louisville residents following Breonna Taylor’s murder at his press conference on Tuesday. 

Taylor was a 26-year-old Black woman who was shot by three Louisville police officers in her own apartment. According to Louisville police, the drug warrant operation was targeting two other people on that day, but it resulted in Taylor's death. The three officers haven't been arrested. 

LeBron James is just one of the many NBA players to speak up against this injustice. Sports Illustrated's Melissa Rohlin tweeted out LeBron's lengthy statement on the situation:

“I kinda put myself in that household, with them [police officers] coming into the house, a place where they shouldn’t have been in the first place, and then open firing and killing an innocent woman who had a bright future,” said the four-time MVP.

In an attempt to empathize with Taylor’s family, the Lakers star imagined himself to be a part of it:

“So I think about if it was a sister of mine. If it was my mother. If it was an auntie of mine. If it was a friend of mine.”

LeBron James also reiterated that while these horrific incidents are more widespread now because of social media and camera technology, the public must not forget that these atrocious acts have been plaguing the world for decades:

“You think about the landscape of what we’re in right now where police brutality is going on. It’s happened so much over the last — I wanna say decade — because now we’ve seen it because of camera phones and videos and things of that nature. But we know it’s always happened. You can take it back to the 90s with the Rodney King beating, and that was over a video camera. But because of social media and because of the phones, everything is so rapid fire and instant, you’re able to see it. And I don’t know if it was the last time I did a presser or before that [when I asked], what, do we need to see a video of her getting killed for something to actually happen with the officers who committed this crime?”

There isn’t any video of Taylor’s murder because of the lack of video from police body cameras. 

While LeBron James declined to reveal the names of the people he talked to, he describes the emotions many of Taylor’s former neighbors are feeling at the moment:

“I’ve spoken to a lot of people in Louisville, and they’re irate,” said James. “They’re sad, they’re angry, they’re disgusted about what’s going on and the timetable of what’s happening. So I feel for her mother, I feel for her family, and anyone that had any association with her in her community. Her coworkers that probably saw her every day and seen her smile, and seen her talk about not only her presence in the world, but also her future. It’s a life that’s gone too soon out of nonsense, and out of just a pure act of violence.”

Like like George Floyd's murder, Taylor’s murder has sparked outrage across civil rights groups and minority groups. LeBron James and other NBA players will continue to shine a light on this injustice and hope justice will be served at some point.