.BrooklynNets star Kyrie Irving is joining rapper Common and others for a TV special calling for action following the death of Breonna Taylor.
is joining rapper Common and others for a TV special calling for action following the death of Breonna Taylor.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician, was shot eight times in Louisville, Kentucky, by plainclothes officers serving a narcotics search warrant without knocking at her apartment on March 13. No drugs were found. Louisville has seen weeks of protests over the shooting and demonstrators around the country have chanted her name.
Irving, who has been outspoken about social justice issues, says as society is calling attention to police brutality and systemic racism, it is “critical to magnify how these unjust behaviours and practices are directly impacting Black women.”
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