Breonna Taylor.Photo: Breonna Taylor/instagram
A ceramic bust ofBreonna Taylorhas been vandalized in Oakland, California, and police are searching for the person responsible.
“Looks like they hit it with a baseball bat along the back,” Carson toldCBS News, adding that he did not believe the vandalism was random. He told the station that he thinks it was an attack against theBlack Lives Mattermovement.
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Taylor, an unarmed Black woman — an Emergency Room Technician studying to be a nurse — died March 13 when Louisville Metro Police Department officers executing a no-knock drug warrant opened fire on her apartment.
Police started shooting into the apartment after Taylor’s boyfriend,Kenneth Walker, fired off a warning shot, not knowing who was attempting to breach the apartment.
Taylor was shot eight times.
Only one of the three officersinvolved in the shooting is facing charges — not for killing Taylor, but for endangering her neighbors.
In a statement to theSan Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland police said it was aware of the crime.
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“The Oakland Police Department is aware of the incident regarding the vandalism of a bust honoring Breonna Taylor,” the statement read. “A report has been filed and the incident is under investigation.”
Carson started a GoFundMe pageto raise money to recast the statue in bronze. By Tuesday morning, the page had raised more than $13,255. Carson says that any money raised that exceeds the cost of rebuilding will be donated to Breonna Taylor’s family.
“After spending months creating this artwork it was incredible to see the community and neighbors taking photos and enjoying it,” Carson wrote on the GoFundMe page. “Now I am devastated and enraged to see it in pieces. This was an act of racist aggression and we need to show them we will not stand for it.”
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