Louisville, Family Remember Breonna Taylor on Her 28th Birthday

More than a year after her death, Louisville showed Breonna Taylor's legacy is still alive on what would have been her 28th birthday.

The Breonna Taylor Foundation, established by Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer last year, invited the community to join her at Waterfront Park on Saturday evening for "Praise in the Park" in honor of the late emergency room technician.

Hundreds of people turned up — despite the barrage of cicadas on the Big Four Lawn — to pray, dance and sing together.

Palmer promised to continue to be visible as long as no one has been held accountable for her daughter's death, and thanked the crowd who joined her on her first-born's birthday.

"Anybody who's shared her picture, said her name, did a ride, showed up. It doesn't matter what it was. I thank you and I appreciate you," Palmer said.

Taylor was 26 when she was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police officers attempting to serve a search warrant at her South Louisville apartment on March 13, 2020. Officers returned fire 32 times after Taylor's boyfriend fired what he has described as a warning shot against suspected intruders.

Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) President and CEO Sadiqa Reynolds urged Louisvillians not to get so caught up in their day-to-day lives that they forget what happened to Taylor.

"Don't get so hung up that we forget about these mothers who don't just get to go home and go about their lives as usual," she said. "There is no back to normal."

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