Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine is putting up billboards around Louisville, Kentucky in the pursuit of seeking justice for Breonna Taylor.
Oprah and many other protesters are calling for the officers involved in the killing of the 26-year old EMT to be arrested and charged.
Taylor was shot multiple times in March by police forcing their way into her apartment while executing a no-knock warrant. Since then, a law (Breonna’s Law) was passed in Louisville banning no-knock warrants.
O Magazine put up 26 billboards around the city, one representing each year of her life.
“We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice,” Winfrey said in an article in her magazine announcing the billboards. “And that is why Breonna Taylor is on the cover of O magazine. I cry for justice in her name. The September issue honors her and ever other Black woman whose life has been taken too soon.”
The billboards urge people to “Demand that the police involved in killing Breonna Taylor be arrested and charged” and points them to the website for Until Freedom, a social justice organization that recently moved to Louisville to focus on Taylor’s case.
Oprah said she would continue her fight until the people responsible for her death are prosecuted.
“It is my hope that if we continue to say her name, write her name, and let no one forget her life, the people who are responsible for killing her and those who remain complicit by doing nothing shall be brought to justice,” she said.
None of the officers have been charged and only one was fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department. Taylor’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
