.Beyonce has written a letter demanding justice for Breonna Taylor.
, an E.M.T. who was killed on March 13 while sleeping in her bed by three police officers who intruded her Louisville home.
The Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has gone so far as to sign"Breonna's Law," which bans"no-knock" search warrants for entry into homes—the same type of warrant the officers who invaded Taylor's home claim to have used in an attempt to search for two individuals they suspected were selling drugs, only to enter the wrong home—but justice has not been served.
In a letter addressed to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Beyoncé requests he"take swift and decisive action in charging the officers" who killed Taylor, and outlines the inconsistencies in the Louisville police department's investigation into her death. For example, Taylor was shot eight times but the LMPD claims she had no injuries in their autopsy report.
"Your office has both the power and the responsibility to bring justice to Breonna Taylor, and demonstrate the value of a Black woman's life," she wrote, before demanding criminal charges be brought against Jonathan Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove, and Brett Hankinson, the officers who shot Taylor to death.
While a law was passed because of Taylor's death and will hopefully prevent more deaths of Black people at the hands of police who burst into people's homes, many have pointed out the hypocrisy of the maneuver, as the officers still roam free. And the fact that it may take a celebrity with global power to push the Louisville police department to take action and arrest police officers who killed an innocent, unarmed person is shameful.
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