Writer and critic battymamzelle created the campaign BirthdayForBreonna for supporters to write to government officials with demands of justice for her death.
, but what's unexpectedly gone viral is item number four: sending a birthday card to Kentucky's attorney general and Louisville's mayor urging that the officers who killed Taylor are held accountable.
"I liked the idea of doing something birthday-specific because it highlights the sort of irony of [Breonna Taylor's] birthday," Young tells."I decided on birthday cards because that was easy, something that people could do and would be easily accessible and the people could send through the mail." I'm envisioning all of these cards, descending upon the mayor and attorney general, and hopefully galvanizing them to act.
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