How to donate, support and post for BreonnaTaylor.
name has been written on thousands of pieces of cardboard and tagged hundreds of thousands of times online over the past week. Despite this, her death in early March at the hands of Louisville police, when she was shot eight times in her bedroom during a botched drug sting, has occupied little of the national conversation compared to the similarly senseless death of George Floyd.
Scrutiny is on the legality of the"no-knock" warrant that allowed police to enter Taylor's home without announcing themselves, resulting in the warning shot Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired believing there was an intruder, which police say justified their fatal shots. The Louisville Police has also announced"reforms," like mandatory body camera usage. However, similar reforms were already in place in Minnesota when George Floyd was killed, and Louisville police already violated themin an attempt to disperse a gathering on June 1. Not a single officer had activated their camera, resulting in the resignation of former Police Chief Steven Conrad.
Taylor would have turned 27 today. She was an EMT first responder, who went by"Bre" to her large, tight-knit family. Her aunts Bianca Austin and Tahasha Holloway are grateful people know what happened to her."But we don't want this at all," Austin toldAs the protests continue, here are ways you can demand justice for Breonna Taylor and support her family.
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