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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 was an act of racism and an act of aggression and intimidation.' 

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 Taylor, which he finished with a dark brown satin glaze. But less than two weeks after the statue memori...

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 that he considered the smashing of Ms Taylor's statue "an act of racist aggression aimed at suppressing...

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 sparked massive protests across the country. Oakland police Monday said they were aware of the initial...