Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old medical worker in Louisville, KY, is gaining national attention after being tragically shot and killed by Louisville police in her own apartment on March 13.
The African-American woman was sleeping in her bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, 27, when the police officers forcefully entered her apartment in the middle of the night after obtaining a “no-knock” search warrant during an investigation into two men they believed were selling drugs out of a house far from Breonna’s home.
They got the search warrant because they believed the men were using her home address to receive packages. Although the disturbing incident that took Breonna’s life happened almost three months ago, it’s getting more and more