Five months ago, protesters in Lafayette Square were tear-gassed to make way for a Presidential photo op. On Saturday, after Joe Biden’s victory was announced, the streets around the square were the scene of a party.
The movement’s success at publicizing Taylor’s cause on the Internet has not shielded the beleaguered activists on the ground in Louisville from physical and legal risk.
The U.S. President and the bureaucracy reacted slowly to the arrest of Paul Whelan, who was declared a spy and sentenced to sixteen years in a Russian prison colony.