{"id":8202,"date":"2020-05-10T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lailasnews.com\/international\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2020-07-26T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T08:02:03","slug":"breonna-taylor-louisville-ky-death-dead-obituary-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lailasnews.com\/international\/breonna-taylor-louisville-ky-death-dead-obituary-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Breonna Taylor Louisville KY death: What happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breonna Taylor Louisville KY death – dead, obituary, funeral:\u00a0Breonna Taylor & her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, were asleep on March 13 2020 when Louisville police allegedly stormed into her home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Walker fired at the officers and 3 officers allegedly responded with a hail of bullets.<\/p>\n

26-year-old Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Breonna Taylor died after she was hit eight times. 27 year old Kenneth Walker was charged with attempted murder.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Walker was arrested and charged with attempted homicide on accusations he shot one of the police officers during the raid.<\/p>\n

But his attorney Rob Eggert told local news station WDBR that Walker was acting in self-defense and said Taylor\u2019s death was the result of \u201cpolice misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker has pleaded not guilty to the charges\u00a0because he said police did not announce themselves.<\/p>\n

His lawyer wrote to the court that Walker \u201cwishes to exonerate himself. His girlfriend was killed in a hail of police bullets while naked and he himself simply acted to try to protect himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breonna Taylor Louisville KY death – dead, obituary, funeral:<\/h2>\n

Breonna Taylor Louisville KY death sent shockwaves and has sparked an outrage.<\/p>\n

Walker’s attorney Rob Eggert told the Courier Journal:<\/p>\n

\u201cHad Mr. Walker known that police were outside he would have opened the door and ushered them in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rob Eggert added that no drugs were found and that the home belonged to Taylor and Walker wasn\u2019t even the target of the police\u2019s search warrant.<\/p>\n

Sam Aguiar, a lawyer for Taylor\u2019s family, told WDRB that it was a case of misidentification and that he believed officers were looking for someone else connected to a different raid.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething went terribly wrong. This was clearly a botched execution of a warrant.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read below an open letter\u00a0on Modern-Day Lynchings #SayHerName by BWOP Chicago\u00a0(Black Women Organizing for Power).<\/p>\n

BWOP (Black Women Organizing for Power) Chicago is an up-and-coming political advocacy group dedicated to strategic organizing for policies that contribute to the collective uplift of black communities in the City of Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois.<\/p>\n

We are currently in the midst of our Black Community COVID-19 Response Policy Campaign, but we felt compelled to shift gears for a moment to respond to recent tragic events.<\/p>\n

We have just recently issued an Open Letter condemning the lynchings of Ahmaud Arbery and Dreasjon Reed, and we feel compelled to speak out once again to condemn the lynching of a black woman.<\/p>\n

Breonna Taylor of Louisville, Kentucky was murdered on March 13, 2020 by Louisville Metro police officers when they fired at least 22 shots into her home while she and her boyfriend were sleeping.<\/p>\n

This is yet another example of the state-sanctioned extrajudicial murder of black folks by white supremacist individuals and institutions.<\/p>\n

As we noted in our previous open letter, the term \u201cmodern-day lynchings\u201d is almost a misnomer, as this country has never stopped enacting and sanctioning murderous violence on black folks, and black women have never been excluded from this national horror. We are disturbed that we are only just now hearing about this tragedy, but we are committed to mobilize and speak truth to power NOW.<\/p>\n

We want to express our deepest sympathies to the family of Breonna Taylor whose life was cut short in this brutal execution.<\/p>\n

We lift you up in prayer and we collectively mourn with you, though we know we will never truly feel the depths of your pain. We call on our elected officials and any individual devoted to justice to channel your mournful rage into righteous, productive anger.<\/p>\n

To our elected officials here in Chicago: (We are an advocacy group based in Chicago)
\nWe call on Governor J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Elected members of the Chicago City Council, and elected members of the IL General Assembly to do the following:<\/p>\n