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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 something very heavy," Leo Carson, the artist behind the sculpture, told the . Carson said that he fel...

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 Taylor", Bay Area public media outlet KQED reported. The ceramic bust was placed in downtown Oakla...

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 night and Saturday morning. Carson did not file a police report, and plans to just fix it instead. ...

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 doesn't believe the vandalism was random. He said he thinks it was an attack against the Black Lives Matter movement. "I don't ...

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 Oakland's 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. None of the men involved were indicted on murder charges; Brett Hankison — the now-terminated offi...