A bust sculpture honoring police shooting victim Breonna Taylor was smashed by vandals over the weekend, prompting a probe by Oakland police, according to reports.
The memorial, installed two weeks ago in downtown Latham Square, was smashed in several places sometime Saturday, ABC affiliate KGO-TV reported.
The bust includes a plaque that reads: “Say Her Name, Breonna Taylor,” the station said.
“At first I was stunned and shocked and hurt and angry,” artist Leo Carson, who created the sculpture, told the outlet.
“Just a whole bunch of emotions,” he said. “It felt like I was personally attacked and also they attacked Breonna Taylor and the BLM movement.”
Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT technician, was shot and killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched raid on March 13.
Taylor’s death, and the May 25 police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, were among the catalysts that sparked massive Black Lives Matter protests throughout the world, including in the Bay Area city.
Who cares ? Probably done by a store owner who had his store destroyed by rioters .
She is not a hero she is a person that hung out with the wrong people and got caught in the cross fire. She is not a person that we should be holding up or creating statues of
She was NOT an EMT when she died – she was unemployed.
Meanwhile BLM is pretty close to a domestic terrorist organization…
More importantly, they keep killing each other – how can they say their lives matter…they’re taking them!?
What’s good for the goose…
I would like to buy that vandal a beer.
That’s how the left solves their problems. Destruction. Why not “speak out” doing the same thing they do?
It offended my sense of patriotism..marxist deception hate and lies is all they have!. Statues of hermain cane, condelisa rice, Ben Carson, MLK, even powell i d get behind.. not this LIE!!
These things are done to foment anger and hate. Little doubt that the vandalism was orchestrated by the same ones who orchestrated it’s erection. Erected to foment anger and hate, then vandalised to foment anger and hate. It’s win win for them. A house divided amongst itself cannot stand.
She hadn’t been a working EMT for years. She made bad choices that culminated in an early death.