LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s days like this one that make time slow down for Attica Scott. “It’s just all connected, and that’s what makes Tyre Nichols’ murder so hard and so heartbreaking for me is because I remember what we went through right here in Louisville and what we continue to go through,” Scott told Spectrum News 1 on Friday.

While the country responds to the arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, Scott wonders what has changed since the death of Breonna Taylor in March 2020.

“And whenever you have public officials and families calling for calm, it’s because they know something wrong was done,” Scott adds.

Scott, a mother of two and now a former state representative, knows the country is reliving the same kind of trauma, grief, frustration and anger felt after the police killings of Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd and others.

Scott says she knows city leaders in Memphis and is ready to travel there if called upon. “My kids were born in Tennessee so, of course, my heart is there and I am torn because part of me wants to drive down in Memphis right now but I also know that’s not realistic for me right now. But eventually I’m probably going to end up in Memphis as folks are standing up and fighting for justice,” Scott said.

It’s at this time Scott is also reminded her city, yet again, is searching for a new police chief.

And with more reckoning to come, she has this advice for Louisville’s new administration: “I would tell Mayor Greenberg if you truly want a new direction for Louisville, if you truly want healthy and safe neighborhoods you’ve got to work with the people that you don’t like, that you don’t feel comfortable with because those are the folks that are closest to the community, that are deeply rooted and grounded in community,” Scott explained.

And as Scott says, those are the people that will help move the city in a new direction.