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Beyonce Writes An Open Letter To Kentucky’s Attorney General Calling For Charges To Be Brought Against Breonna Taylor’s Killers

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Beyonce is using her star power to call for justice in Breonna Taylor’s name&period; On her website&comma; Beyonce&period;com&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;beyonce&period;com&sol;image&sol;letter-to-attorney-general-daniel-cameron&sol;">Queen Bey wrote an open letter<&sol;a> to Kentucky’s attorney general calling for charges to be brought against the three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">In the letter&comma; addressed to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron whose office is currently handling the investigation of Breonna’s death&comma; Beyonce pointed out multiple times that it has been three months since Breonna’s death and no disciplinary action has been taken against the Louisville Metro Police Department &lpar;LMPD&rpar; officers involved&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While &OpenCurlyQuote;Breonna’s Law’ passed in Louisville and federal legislation has been introduced that will also ban no-knock warrants&comma; these small setpes in the right direction are painful reminders that there has still been no justice for Breonna Taylor or her family&comma;” Beyonce wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Three months have passed &&num;8212&semi; and the LMPD’s investigations have created more questions than answers&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Beyonce questioned how the<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;tsr-updatez-breonna-taylors-incident-report-released-with-minimal-information-detective-who-applied-for-no-knock-warrant-placed-on-leave&sol;"> incident report<&sol;a> stated Bronna suffered no injuries despite the fact that she was shot at least eight times&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Bey also questioned the officers’ accounts of the incident&comma; specifically their claims that they announced themselves before forcing their way into Breonna’s apartment even though multiple witnesses have said this is untrue&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Three months have passed &&num;8212&semi; and zero arrests have been made&comma; and no officers have been fired&period; The LMPD’s investigation was turned over to your office&comma; and yet all of the officers involved in the shooting remain employed by the LMPD&comma;” Bey wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;LMPD Sgt&period; Jonathan Mattingly and Officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hakinson must be held accountable for their actions&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Beyonce put out a call to action&comma; demanding Daniel Cameron to do the job he’s being asked to do&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Your office has both the power and the responsibility to bring justice to Breonna Taylor&comma; and demonstrate value of a Black woman’s life&comma;” Beyonce said&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Beyonce urged Cameron to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;use that power” by bringing criminal charges against Mattingly&comma; Cosgrove and Hankison&period; She also asked Cameron to commit to transparency in the investigation and to investigate the LMPD’s response to Breonna’s murder&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as well the pervasive practices that result in the repeated deaths of unarmed Black citizens&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Bey’s final words in the letter were&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Don’t let this case fall into the pattern of no action after a terrible tragedy&period; With every death of a Black person at the hands of the police&comma; there are two real tragedies&colon; the death itself&comma; and the inaction and delays that follow it&period; This is your chance to end that pattern&period; Take swift and decisive action in charging the officers&period; The next months cannot look like the last three&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Want updates directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or<&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom"> <span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">click here to join&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"61523" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;beyonce-writes-an-open-letter-to-kentuckys-attorney-general-calling-for-charges-to-be-brought-against-breonna-taylors&sol;" data-secure&equals;"b58d235200"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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