(AURN News) — On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was fatally shot by police in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.
Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department were executing a controversial no-knock warrant as part of a narcotics investigation linked to a former boyfriend.
Taylor and her boyfriend were inside the apartment when police forced entry shortly after midnight. Believing intruders were breaking in, her boyfriend fired a single shot. Police then fired multiple rounds into the apartment, hitting Taylor several times and killing her.
No drugs were found in the home.
Taylor’s death quickly became a national flashpoint in the broader movement against police brutality and racial injustice. Her name was widely invoked alongside other victims of police violence, fueling protests, demands for accountability and renewed scrutiny of no-knock warrants across the United States.
Rest in power, Breonna Taylor.
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