One of the catalysts of the protests and heated discussions of race that roiled the country in 2020 was the shooting of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT who died of gunshot wounds when police raided her boyfriend’s apartment where she was staying. Taylor’s death came just weeks after racist vigilantes killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and two months before the death of George Floyd, which dominated the news cycle all summer.
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“When police carrying out a drug warrant broke down Taylor’s door in March 2020, Walker fired a shot that struck an officer, former Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, in the leg,” Fox News explains. “Walker said he believed an intruder was bursting in. Officers returned fire, striking and killing Taylor in her hallway.”
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