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Hundreds Gather To Demand Justice For Breonna Taylor One Year After Her Death

On Saturday, activists and supporters joined Taylor's family in a rally at Louisville's Jefferson Square Park to remember her life and to demand accountability.
A child holds a sign that says "BREEWAYY" at Jefferson Square Park on Saturday. BREEWAYY is what protesters have coined the park since demonstrations began last May.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Louisville Saturday to mark the anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was killed by police officers at her apartment one year ago.

Taylor, whose name has become a rallying cry in the movement for racial justice, was killed in a narcotics raid on March 13 of last

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