Virile men wear masks.

Detail of Copper Man (officially the Courthouse Plaza Miners’ Monument) in Bisbee, Arizona, by sculptor Raymond Philips Sanderson. The sculpture

is composed of concrete clad in molten copper, completed in 1935.  

A plaque on the sculpture’s pedestal reads “Dedicated to those virile men the copper miners, whose contributions to the development of the wealth and lore of the State of Arizona has been magnificent.”

The trust between Louisville Metro and the people we serve is eroding at a pace that may soon pass the point of restoration. … Efforts by the Metro Council to force transparency have been met with denial followed by slow acceptance. Rather than taking exact and quick action to seek outside investigation and acknowledge problems, this administration has delayed and obfuscated the truth in hope that this like other problems would go away. It hasn’t—it can’t. … We, the undersigned members of the Louisville Metro Council’s leadership write this letter today to demand the immediate release of all documents that relate to the Breonna Taylor Case. … The people of Louisville deserve answers.

Excerpts from a July 8 letter from the Louisville Metro Council to Mayor Greg Fisher. The letter requests full disclosure of case information after Breonna Taylor’s family filed a wrongful death suit against the Louisville Metro Police officers who shot and killed her. The lawsuit alleges that the police department engaged in targeted actions in Breonna’s community in order to force people to vacate homes so a high-dollar real estate development could move forward. The Metro Council letter describes this as “a modern twisted update to the policy of redlining” that Mayor Fisher supposedly opposes and has campaigned against. 

Mayor Fisher indicated today that he cannot accommodate the request.