A billboard by Breonna Taylor in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, was vandalized this week. The billboard, part of a larger campaign demanding justice for Taylor’s death, has now painted a large splatter on her head.
On Tuesday, the billboard – which is located near the Lexington Road and Spring Street area, according to CBS Louisville affiliate WLKY-TV – presented red paint, splashed in the center of Taylor’s forehead, resembling a bullet wound.
The billboard is between 26 representing every year of Taylor’s life and was founded earlier this month in and around the city by Oprah Winfrey. The image is the same as Taylor’s used on the September September of Winfrey’s journal, marking the first time in the publication’s history that anyone other than Winfrey was on the cover.
The billboards all have the same clear call to action: “Telling that the police involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor is arrested and charged.”
A quote from Winfrey accompanies the message: “If you turn a blind eye to racism, you become an accomplice in it.”
CBS affiliate WLKY-TV
The signs are directing people to the Social Justice Organization until Freedom, which has taken up residence in Louisville, to concentrate on getting justice for Taylor, O Magazine said in a statement on its website. The online statement also urges people to sign petitions demanding justice for Taylor, call Kentucky officials, donate to local guarantor funds and use #SayHerName on social media.
On March 13, police entered Taylor’s home with a no-knock order. The officers fatal shots Taylor, an EMT worker, while searching for illegal drugs that were never found. Only one of the three officers involved in Taylor’s death have been fired, and no one has been charged.
The Taylor family filed a case against the officers in May, accusing them of wrongful death, excessive violence and gross negligence. In June, Mayor Greg Fischer ‘signedBreonna’s Law, “which prohibits the use of unsolicited searches and requires officers to carry body cameras when conducting searches.
De father of Michael Brown Jr., who was also shot dead by police in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, has also called for justice in Taylor’s case and recently traveled to Louisville to join a protest with up to freedom.
On Monday night, former first lady Michelle Obama referred to Taylor’s death while delivering an incredible speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
“Here at home, like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and an endless list of innocent people of color remain murdered. Told that the simple fact that a Black life is a matter is still met with ridicule from the nation’s highest office,” he said. Obama.
“Sadly, this is the America that is to be seen for the next generation,” she added.
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