By Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Derrick Bryson Taylor June 5, 2020
While the death last week of George Floyd in Minneapolis has unleashed a wave of protests across the country, fury over the killing of an African-American medical worker in Louisville, Ky., by the police has also been growing, driving tense demonstrations in that city.
Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police officers, executing a search warrant, used a battering ram to crash into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency room technician. After a brief confrontation, they fired several shots, striking her at least eight times.
On Friday June 5, what would have been Ms. Taylor’s 27th birthday, people on Twitter used the hashtag #SayHerName to remember her and raise awareness about her case.
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