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Share Looks like they hit it with a baseball bat along the back, Carson told CBS SF.  Photos of the bust show a missing chunk from the crown of the head, with additional damage to the neck and shoulder area.    Carson said that he believed the destruction was intentional.    I don’t think there’s a single person in Oakland who doesn’t know who Breonna Taylor is, and I don’t think you attack a sculpture like that by accident, he told the news station, adding And I think that it w...

Weeks-Old Statue of Breonna Taylor Is Battered in Oakland, Calif. The vandalism of the ceramic sculpture of Ms. Taylor near City Hall is under investigation, the police said. A bust of Breonna Taylor in a plaza near Oakland City Hall was smashed in several places late last week. The artist wants to create a new statue in bronze.Credit...Shelby Knowles for The New York Times Dec. 28, 2020 The clay took several months for a Bay Area sculptor to shape with his hands into a likeness of Breonna Tayl...

Share on Twitter Police In California are investigating the smashing of a ceramic bust of Breonna Taylor erected to honour her memory after she was shot and killed in a botched police raid in Kentucky. The Oakland Police Department said late on Monday it was looking into the incident, although it had not identified any suspects or motives. The statue was found smashed on Saturday, about two weeks after it was installed. Leo Carson, the artist who created the bust, told the media tha...

Police are investigating after a sculpture of Breonna Taylor was smashed to pieces in downtown Oakland.

Emblazoned with the phrase “Say Her Name,” the ceramic bust was found vandalized the day after Christmas, two weeks after it was installed in the city’s downtown area. The artwork commemorated Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman shot to death by police inside her Louisville, Ky., apartment during a botched drug raid in March. The deaths of Taylor and other Black people killed by police, such as George Floyd, have spurred the country’s reckoning with generations of racial injustice and sp...

5 things to know for December 29: Stimulus, coronavirus, military bill, Andre Hill, billionaire death CNN 12/29/2020 By AJ Willingham, CNN © Jeff Fusco/Getty Images North America/Getty Images PHILADELPHIA - MAY 8: Economic stimulus checks are prepared for printing at the Philadelphia Financial Center May 8, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One hundred and thirty million households are eligible to receive a tax rebate check under the $168 billion economic stimulus plan. (...

The artist will be fixing the sculpture in downtown #Oakland

Breonna Taylor statue smashed during vandalism will be rebuilt in bronze after donations come in Share Updated: 4:02 AM EST Dec 29, 2020 WLKY Digital Team Share Updated: 4:02 AM EST Dec 29, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript APP. AS THE WEATHER BEGINS TO CHANGE, LOCAL PROTEST LEADERS HAVE FOUND A NEW HOME TO HOUSE THE BREONNA TAYLOR MEMORIAL THAT SITS IN THE MIDDLE OF JEFFERSON SQUARE PARK. THE MEMORIAL, WHICH CONSIST OF -- CONSISTS OF ART WORK, BALLO...

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Supplied/AP Breonna Taylor was shot to death by police inside her apartment during a botched drug raid in March. But rather than crush those voices, Carson, 30, said, “actually, we’ve proven exactly the opposite”. News of the vandalism garnered attention for what was a quiet, independently conceived project. That has now translated into support - including donations - to bring the bust back in a sturdier form. A GoFundMe page launched Sunday to raise NZ$7000 to reconstruct the work in ...