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Friday marked what would have been Breonna Taylor, 27 years of age, but the 13 of March she was fatally shot by police officers in Louisville that entered in his home during an unannounced drug sting. Despite the fact that their main suspect was already in custody, Breonna was shot eight times, and the three officers involved have not been arrested or charged. To celebrate Breonna life, John Legend wrote an op-ed for Entertainment Weeklya ray of light on the emergency medical technician and demanding justice.
“Breonna should be celebrating his 27th birthday today. Like many Black women, she was an essential worker, an emergency medical technician, the type of the first response that we depend on to save lives during the course of the pandemic,” John began, adding that Breonna had dreams of becoming a nurse, a wife and a mother. “But after the midnight of March 13, officials from the Louisville Metro Police Department stormed into their apartment, fired more than 20 bullets, eight of whom eventually took Breonna life. They had the wrong house and an illegal no-knock search warrant.”
“Today I can use my platform to demand justice for this essential person, this woman, daughter, sister and friend.”
The 41-year-old EGOT winner call for change and urged the people to join together to fight against police brutality. “Now is the time for us to come together and emphatic in SAYING HIS NAME. Black women created this call to action because we mistakenly speak of the generations-long crisis of the police and the vigilantes of gender-based violence way, as if it only happens to Black men,” he continued. “Today I can use my platform to demand justice for this essential person, this woman, daughter, sister and friend. While their loved ones need to be, in effect, in our prayers on this hard day, should also commit to never stop fighting for justice in his name.”
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“Until the elected officials to create consequences of serious and fatal of the misconduct of the police, who will continue to kill with impunity.”
John also addressed the widespread protests across the nation and the “war of the Black communities that makes the police departments “in small armies to patrol what they believe to be ‘fields of battle’ in place of neighborhoods, populated by “fighters” instead of the people who work with families and dreams.” “Now the country seems to be on fire, and all the world wonders why,” he wrote. “While we continue to work towards systemic change, me one-to-Breonna of the community in the immediate demand of justice: the Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer finally, the detention of the three officers who killed Breonna and charge with second-degree murder. Until the elected officials to create consequences of serious and fatal of the misconduct of the police, who will continue to kill with impunity.”
Read John op-ed in its entirety in Entertainment Weeklyand visit bit.ly/BirthdayForBreonna to learn more.
