Beyoncé is letting her voice be heard once again.
Less than a week after she celebrated Breonna Taylor’s birthday with a demand for justice, the 38-year-old icon penned a letter to Kentucky’s Attorney General Daniel Cameron. She urged Cameron to use his power to bring criminal charges against the three offers who shot and killed Taylor in her Lousiville apartment on March 13.
The letter, which was shared on Beyoncé’s official website on Sunday (June 14), demands that the Attorney General “commit to transparency in the investigation and prosecution of these officers’ criminal conduct.”
“Your office has both the power and the responsibility to bring justice to Breonna Taylor, and demonstrate the value of a Black woman’s life,” the Lemonade singer wrote in the letter. “Don’t let this case fall into the pattern of no action after a terrible tragedy. With every death of a Black person at the hands of the police, there are two real tragedies: The death itself, and the inaction and delays that follow it.”
She continued, “This is your chance to end that pattern. Take swift and decisive action in charging the officers. The next months cannot look like the last three.”
Saturday (June 13) marked three months to the day of Taylor’s killing, where Lousiville police perform a “no-knock warrant” on her apartment. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, engaged in a gunfight with the police as they failed to identify themselves and he believed they were intruders. Taylor was shot eight times and died at the scene.
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Beyoncé had used her platform in recent weeks to call for justice in the wake of numerous incidents where Black men and women were killed at the hands of police. During her commencement address to the Class of 2020 on June 7, she paid tribute to Taylor, Geroge Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery as well as the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have left us all broken. It has left the entire country searching for answers,” she said. “We’ve seen that our collective hearts, when put to positive action, could start the wheels of change.”
Hip Hop has not been silent during this crucial time in history. JAY-Z called MN Governor Walz to help get George Floyd’s case into the hands of Attorney General Keith Ellison, Russ raised over $150k for Black Lives Matter, The Weeknd donated $500k to various BLM causes, Drake donated $100k to National Bail Out, and Killer Mike provided a powerful speech addressing Atlanta amid city wide protests.
Kanye West donated $2 million to the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. J. Cole and Kendrick were both spotted at local protests and Meek Mill dropped a song addressing police brutality.
These efforts are only a few highlights among the many people who are doing what they can to help spread messaging and advance the Black Lives Matter movement.
B please , control yourself and ur husband. If I were Jay I’d totally cheated on becky with the good hair too
You are an idiot.
In what world does a two bit hack of a heffer have any say in the criminal justice sytem?
It was swift alright. You’re trying to speed up something that already happened? Don’t shoot at cops kids! It’ll get you and everyone else in the house smoked. Fire if you have enough firepower to kill everyone running up in your home.
Breonna’s tragic case is worthy of a call for justice to be served. It will be interesting to see whether B’s letter will have any weight with the Attorney General’s office.
if your idea of change beyonce is of non-binary race and the persecutions and killing of homosexuals alongside a reverse genocide of every race on this planet and also the denial of human rights of fundamental law in these countries by a power socialite elite. if your idea of change is no longer of the holy god but the merging of all religions to one to partly form the new world order in eastern europe. if your idea of change is forced and we have to change or you take our lives. screw you.
Stay away from drugs hermano! Hope you get this message before it’s too late..
You shouldn’t be sleeping in your house. That’s dangerous for the cops. Also, the second amendment isn’t for black people. Police should be able to run up in your house and blast on you if you’re black. This shit is a tragedy because this damn near happened to me 10 years ago out here in AZ when a cop rolled up in my house ”
“looking” for a black suspect who looked nothing like me by the way after they had forcibly removed my wife and kids from our home. I had on my ear buds blasting music in my bedroom so was oblivious. Had I been “making the wrong move,” dummies here would have been saying I deserved it for not doing what the cop told me to do although he didn’t identify himself. He didn’t tell me wtf he was in my private home for. Nothing. Police state isn’t normal people.
Nice nonsensical rant, dummy. Her man who shot the cop was wanted in the investigation. Keep those blinders on dum-dum!
The fact is, she shouldn’t have been shot and killed under any circumstance dumbass. She wasn’t protecting anyone who was fugitive from the law, she certainly wasn’t armed and she didn’t stand in the way of the investigation so there were no grounds for use of deadly force. Get lost if you don’t have anything meaningful to contribute.
Oh, and thanks for showing you’re a moron by saying something that happened to me where just like in this case, police didn’t identify themselves and walked up in my house and into my bedroom with guns drawn is a “nonsensical rant” even though you cogaganda purveyors swear this never happens.
No, he wasn’t dumdum. If he was, they wouldn’t have let him go after they lied at first about how they killed his girl. They were looking for drugs that weren’t there by the way. But go root for the copaganda police state. This woman was an EMT, law-abiding citizen. The world’s biggest gang didn’t care. smoked her like she was a deer or something they were hunting.
no-knock warrents should not exist. Duncan Lemp was killed in his sleep in Maryland while the SWAT team served a no-knock warrant.