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Breonna Taylor sculpture vandalized in Oakland, Calif. By KGO staff | December 28, 2020 at 1:12 PM CST - Updated December 29 at 1:07 AM OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) - Police are investigating after a bust of Breonna Taylor installed earlier this month was vandalized. The ceramic bust is displayed in downtown Oakland with the phrase, “Say her name Breonna Taylor.” Police say a report was filed, and they are now investigating the vandalism. The artist, Leo Carson, said he intends to repair...

Attorney Offers To Fund Restoration Of Smashed Breonna Taylor Sculpture Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail A GoFundMe was created to help repair a statue of Breonna Taylor in Oaklands Latham Square.GoFundMe OAKLAND (BCN) Attorney Joe Cotchett said Sunday night that he and his Burlingame law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, will fund the restoration of the Breonna Taylor sculpture located in Latham Square in downtown Oakland. The ceramic bust, which was installed on Dec. 12, was fou...

New Breonna Taylor bust smashed in Oakland Updated on: December 28, 2020 / 6:34 AM / CBS News Tyler Perry donates $100,000 to Breonna Taylors boyfriend Oakland police are investigating an act of vandalism that left a ceramic bust of Breonna Taylor severely damaged, CBS SF BayArea reports .The bust was installed two weeks ago in Latham Square near City Hall by Leo Carson, a sculptor who was working as a food server before the COVID-19 crisis caused restrictions to the restaurant industr...

© Blavity, Inc., 2020 A crowd of protesters gather near the Breonna Taylor memorial in Jefferson Square Park on October 2, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. / Photo Credit: Getty Images Breonna Taylor Bust Installed In Oakland Two Weeks Ago Damaged In Apparent Act Of Vandalism "I hope that it will inspire solidarity and that we can rebuild this, you know, even stronger than it was before," the sculptor said. December 28, 2020 at 6:34 pm A ceramic bust of Breonna Taylor, which was installed near Oa...

The ceramic bust is displayed in downtown Oakland with the phrase "Say Her Name Breonna Taylor." Police say a report was filed and they are now investigating the vandalism. Disappointing to see the #BreonnaTaylor statue in downtown Oakland vandalized. It was installed just 2 weeks ago. @oaklandpoliceca are aware & are investigating. pic.twitter.com/0rNPiPLTSI— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) December 27, 2020 The artist, Leo Carson, said he intends to repair the sculpture as soon as possible. In an int...

Police investigating smashed, vandalized Breonna Taylor sculpture in Oakland Print this article Oakland police are investigating who might be responsible for the destruction of a sculpture honoring Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman who was killed in a police raid in her home earlier this year. The ceramic sculpture, which was put up two weeks ago in downtown Oakland, bore the phrase "Say Her Name Breonna Taylor" on a plaque. "It looked like someone struck it with a baseball bat or som...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:53 UTC The killing of Breonna Taylor is just one of several deaths of African Americans at the hands of police this year that have sparked mass protests by the Black Lives Matter movement across the US. Police in Oakland, California have launched an investigation after a bust dedicated to deceased African American emergency room technician, Breonna Taylor, was smashed into pieces. The police are "aware of the incident regarding the vandalism of a bust honouring Breonna Tayl...

December 28, 2020 An Oakland artist who made a sculpture of Breonna Taylor is now working to fix it after it was vandalized over the weekend. Leo Carson told KTVU he made the sculpture as a tribute to the EMT worker who was killed by police in Kentucky. It was recently installed in Downtown Oakland. Carson said he hoped the sculpture would energize the Black Lives Matter movement. The sculpture was made of clay, concrete, wood and foam. Parts of it were broken on the sidewalk between Friday...

Monday, December 28th 2020, 12:48 pm By: CBS News Oakland police are investigating an act of vandalism that left a ceramic bust of Breonna Taylor severely damaged, CBS SF BayArea reports. The bust was installed two weeks ago in Latham Square near City Hall by Leo Carson, a sculptor who was working as a food server before the COVID-19 crisis caused restrictions to the restaurant industry. "Looks like they hit it with a baseball bat along the back," said Carson, who doesnt believe the vandalis...

Sculpted Breonna Taylor Bust in Downtown Oakland Vandalized Day After Christmas Less than two weeks ago, a statue created to honor the life of Breonna Taylor debuted in Oaklands Latham Square; it was promptly broken into pieces the day after Christmas by unknown vandals. The police killing of Breonna Taylor continued to fuel civic unrest after a Kentucky grand jury decided to indict only one of the three Louisville Metro Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting back in March. N...