'Say Her Name': Louisville Honors Breonna Taylor

Butterflies followed by hundreds of blue, silver and white balloons, many reading "Happy Birthday", speckled the sky over Louisville, Kentucky's Metro Hall on Saturday, part in celebration of the life of Breonna Taylor, and part in protest against the police killing of the young Black woman earlier this year.

Taylor would have turned 27 years old on Friday. She was killed by police on March 13 in a raid on her home. She was asleep when they barged in.

Taylor's name, along with that of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month, has been at the forefront of mass protests against police brutality that have gripped much of the United States for nearly two weeks.

While it has been almost three months since police killed Taylor, who was a Louisville emergency room technician, her family and friends, and thousands of protesters, say justice has not been served. 

"I keep thinking David McAtee, I keep thinking George Floyd, I keep thinking Eric Garner. I keep thinking Breonna Taylor," said Sadiqa Reynolds, President and CEO of the Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY), after leading Saturday's crowd in a rendition of the Happy Birthday song.

To read the full article, click here.