Election 2020: Kamala Harris Predicted BLM Protests Will Continue Months Before Breonna Taylor Decision

About a month after national protests decrying George Floyd's deaths began, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris made the prescient prediction these protests will continue past Election Day because they've become something more: a movement.

On June 17, during her appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Harris asserted the protests won't stop with Floyd.

“They’re not going to stop,” declared Harris. “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.”

Current events have proven her right. Global protests demanding racial equality and an end to police brutality following Floyd's death in Minnesota were reignited by the shooting of another Black American, Jacob Blake, in Wisconsin, in August.

This was followed by revelations in September of the death by asphyxiation of Jacob Prude in March due to actions of Rochester, New York police. On Wednesday, came the grand jury decision absolving all three policemen involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

During her interview, Harris also said she see it as “critically important” protests continue in order to achieve necessary social and political reforms.

“The only way we are going to truly achieve change is when there are people in the system who are willing or pushing to do it and when there are those of us who are outside the system demanding it"

She's certain "some of the success we have been able to achieve around criminal justice reform would not have happened in recent years without Black Lives Matter.”

The latest catalyst for the continuing wave of protests now four months old is the controversial grand jury decision in Taylor's death on March 13. On Wednesday, a state grand jury indicted one of three officers of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) not for Taylor's death, but on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering a neighbor with his shots. The two other officers involved in the raid were not indicted.

Taylor's death and the non-indictment of the police officers again triggered protests across the U.S.

Two LMPD police officers were shot during protests against the grand jury’s decision. Louisville Metro Interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder said police made 127 arrests.

Two months after the interview, Joe Biden chose Harris as his vice presidential pick on August 11.