keke palmer and the clark sisters will be with us tomorrow night, goodnight. this is "nightline." tonight >> say her name! >> killed by police in her own home, now protesters taking to the streets in a case lost in a flood of headlines. >> why did brionna have to die? >> and the famous one saying her name to bring her out of the shadows. paradise. tourism in a pandemic. mexico lifting its lockdown, even in the face of a devastating death toll. could americans get caught up in a second wave? >> "nightline" starts right now. with juju chang. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight, beyond the calls for justice for george floyd, police

in louisville, kentucky under scrutiny for the killing of brionna taylor, a black woman shot eight times by police. now at the center of the "say her name" protests, bringing attention to her death which went largely unnoticed for months. dancing with friends. ♪ everything on me all right >> singing her favorite songs, buying her dream car. >> she loved life. she loved to be around friends and family. she just, she had it figured out. >> this is brionna taylor, etched in her family's memories. >> she was the closest thing to me. she was like my sister and my best friend. my cousin, all in one. >> 26 and full of life, a dedicated emt with dreams of becoming a nurse, a helper, always there to lend a hand. >> say her name! >> s her name! >> brionna taylor. >> now her name on the lips of

so many protesters, continuing across the country, seeking justice and police reform, pushing towards a national reckoning on race. does it make you proud knowing that brionna is helping literally change the world right now? >> i knew she was destined for greatness. i hate she had to go through this to prove it. >> what do you think it will take for you to be able to grieve properly? >> to know that these officers are going to be charged with a crime, to be held accountable for their actions. >> what is the crime you think they're guilty of? >> murder. >> on march 13th, as brionna and her boyfriend, kenny walker lay asleep in bed, police broke down her door with a battering ram. kenny, thinking intruders were violently breaking in grabbed his li a shot hitting a police officer in the leg. the police returned fire with 20

bullets, eight striking brionna, killing her. >> what is your emergency? >> i don't know what happened. s somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend. my god. >> can you tell us where she's been shot at? >> i think so. her stomach. >> is she alert and able to talk to you? >> no. oh, my gosh. >> police say they were looking for drugs, but none were found at the apartment. the drug dealer they were investigating had already been arrested earlier that day. kenny was initially arrested and charged with attempted murder. his case has since been dropped. but nearly three months later, the officers are still on the job. no charges filed. police say they only fired after kenny first fired upon them. >> if no-knock warrants were

exercised against people living in beverly hills or bel-air with the same frequency that they are exercised against black people who live in black neighborhoods, we would have far more constraints on police officers' ability to do that. >> kimberly crenshaw is a law professor at columbia university and ucla. >> if you are exercising your second amendment right to protect your home you will shoot back. and when you shoot back, that becomes a justification for the police officers to completely take your home out. >> after brionna was killed, tame t tame ca spent hours searching for her. >> he asked if i knew if they had any enemies or anybody that would want to hurt them. and of course no, absolutely not. i say, and he asked if anything had been going on with brie onna

and kenny. >> and they're asking questions without letting you know that it was a police officer who'd shot your daughter. >> exactly. >> they could have told her what happened to brionna, but they were in self-protection mode, and if we can get that good story together, we can muddy the waters enough so that there aren't go being to be significant demands for an investigation. these are the kind of procedures that tell us that the police have too much power and control to determine the aftermath. >> in a failed effort of transparency, the louisville metro police department released the incident report yesterday with virtually no details, listing brionna's injuries as none. >> brionna taylor's case is more representative of where we are in the can uh interecountry tha. she's brutalized and killed and

then criminalized. her boyfriend goes to jail. the men who are responsible for her death interest not fired ard or arrested. >> the practice of no-knock warrants remains in place. >> i think's insane. why would you want to enter into a house in the middle of the night without announcing yourselves. because if they had done that, brionna would have definitely let them in. >> what do you miss the most about your daughter? >> her smile. >> you have a vivid smile. hers must have been dazzling. >> yeah. >> that dazzling smile now plastered around the country. but her case was largely overlooked for two months, until the release of kenny's 911 call amidst protest over george floyd's death. >> in the beginning, it was just me and my family saying her name. >> say her name! >> brionna taylor! >> say her name!

>> brionna taylor! >> if we say the names of black women who are killed by the police we expand our understanding of all of the circumstances under which black lives are put at risk. >> crenshaw started the "say her name" campaign to raise awareness of black women killed by police. >> we think it's men. we think happens in public space when there's an encounter, and then it escalates into a homicide. when the facts don't fit the frames, people forget the facts. >> do you know what happened to brionna taylor? >> but today, celebrities from cardi. about. >> do you know brionna story? her whole story? >> saying her name. >> she motivated me. she supported me. she made me who i am today. >> back in louisville, prianna flakes hopes brionna taylor's legacy transforms the world into a safer place for her son. >> he's 6, but he's starting to understand.

he's starting to realize. >> no justice, no peace! >> what? >> no justice, no peace! >> we need to let the world know that we as black people are tired. we are tired. >> since losing her daughter, tameka palmer has been fighting for what's now known as brionna's law, the ban on no-knock warrants. >> no family should ever have to go through this. >> respect black women! >> it's bigger than brionna it to have all these people, different walks of life come together and want the same thing. it's amazing. >> and coming up next, mexico. welcoming summer tourists, even as it battles a covid-19 crisis.

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latin america is quickly becoming the epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic. and even though mexico hasn't

hit its peak of infection it's getting ready for busy summer traffic. here's abc's ian pannell. >> reporter: far from view on the barren patch of land, nearly two miles from the cemetery gates, a row of unmarked graves awaits the next ♪ officially, it's called municipal cemetery number 12, but today it's known as the covid-19 burial ground. those who work here know the bodies will continue to come. in the midst of this pandemic, digging graves is the only thing they can control. for the families of the victims, their farewells are.nhese cnces?

[ speaking in spanish ] for guadalupe, it was her husband of 23 years. what does it say on the death certificate? [ speaking in spanish ] the doctors suspected coronavirus, and so this must be his final resting place. in a burial pit, reserved for those with covid. another fresh mound of dirt sealed. with flowers and tears. the full force of this pandemic is now sweeping across mexico. hospitals, morgues, crematoriums

and grt this site is that every single grave that you can see, even up the hill, is only from april. in fact, most of them are only from a two-week period. mexico is being ravaged by this virus. critics say much of the strain is down to a lax response to the outbreak. mexico's president observe dor at first down playing the threat, refusing to halt rallies, hugging and kissing supporters. three months later, and the official death toll is over 14,000, and the country's grappling with its highest numbers of coronavirus infections yet. even so, the country has begun to reopen. in cancun, mariachi bands welcoming its first tourists back. while, in the state

coe, demonstrations after this video circulated on social media, showing a 30-year-old construction worker, presumably arrested for not wearing a mask. his name, giovanni lopez, beaten to death hours after taken into custody. three officers have been arrested. add tensions in the shadow of the virus that continues to claim lives. mexico city is now the country's epicenter. the fifth largest city in the world, home to over 21 million people. but a pale imitation of its former self, not so for the hospitals that have seen an avalanche of critically ill patients pour their through doors. >> there are days that we have 100% of patients on ventilator. >> reporter: dr. domingo gomez has practiced emergency medicine

here for three years. >> once we had the first case, in one week we had all of our beds full. >> reporter: what has been the hardest thing for you personally? >> i watch lot of people die. even from we're doing all of our effort, it it''s a lot of death. we had a patient successfully intubated, with res prapirator support, suddenly the patient became critical again. we found out the patient had a pulmonary embolism. the virus can kill somebody so quick. you see somebody well. suddenly n a mome suddenly in a moment he dies. >> reporter: you can't see light at the end of the tunnel? >> can't see when this is going

to end. >> reporter: dr. lopez gatel is the chief epidemiologist. and his daily briefings have made him a household name. what's it like to have to be the face and the voice of this? >> well, the pressure is intense. >> reporter: a respected academic, dr. lopez gatel has taken a different approach to combating the outbreak, passing over recommendations from the world health organization and insisting mexico would not undergo mass testing. >> the reason we are not conducting testing in every person is not lack of money. we still have a surplus of tests. it is really a waste of time. waste of effort, waste of money, and it's fictional to believe that that can be implemented when you have hundreds of thousands of cases. >> reporter: the questions about

the official toll are mounting. a damning investigation by an anti-corruption group suggesting deaths in the capital alone are perhaps three times higher. >> in every single country, the numbers that are presented are smaller than the real ones. in everyone, everyone. >> reporter: but it doesn't have more than three times the rate, which is what the research suggests is the case certainly here in mexico city. >> you just said three times, in mexico, right? and what is it, the number, the factor in the u.s.? nobody that brings this question to the mexican authorities has been able to put a size. >> jimmy: i accept there's numbers in other countries. but i'm here in mexico interviewing you. do you accept it's probably significantly higher? >> absolutely, here and everywhere.

>> reporter: but as the lockdown lifts, death still stalks this city. in the absence of hard numbers, those who care for the dead may be the only ones who know the true toll of the virus. [ speaking in spanish ] >> reporter: this was as you a tough job. but for juan carlos and victor manuel who handle the deceased, -- [ speaking in spanish ] >> reporter: dr. domingo gomez has the same concerns. >> inside the hospital, i know i i'm protected. but here at home, it's kind of scary. we have solution, clorox for the shoes. >> reporter: and recently, the virus came knocking at his door.

his roommate, cecelia, a radiologist at a neighboring hospital tested positive for covid. >> i'm not going to lie. for us, we scared about the situation. but we let her know we are with her. we are still hanging out. but with a distance. >> reporter: learning to live from afar, in hopes that surviving a virus that still poses the gravest of threats. >> we're still at the top, and it's not coming down yet. >> we'll be right back. proof. proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. proof i can fight psoriatic arthritis... ...with humira. proof of less joint pain... ...and clearer skin in psa. that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections.

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and that's "nightline" for tonight. see you right back here tomorrow at this same time. thanks for staying up with us, goodnight, america. ♪ ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ♪ ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ♪ ♪ jimmy kimmel live this is ridiculous. >> jimmy: hello, i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching. i'm still at home. you know, i was gonna take the car out of the driveway to cruise around a little this

afternoon, but turns out i forgot how to drive. we are coming up on, i believe, this weekend will mark three months of quarantine. we've been locked down so long even our apps have started to adapt. apple was just awarded a patent for software that will allow humans to take what they call a "synthetic group selfie" where you don't have to be in the same room. the way it works is, you invite friends to be in your selfie from wherever they are. then the software will remove all the backgrounds and put everyone together. basically, apple just got a patent for photoshop. but, it's interesting. this is the schematic from the patent. is that not the bleakest thing you've ever seen? i have another idea, how about we just try to go three months without taking selfies? according to a new poll, 27% of americans "somewhat or strongly agree" that donald trump is a man of faith. which is not a lot of people, but still too many.