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Winfrey Demanding Justice For Breonna Taylor With Billboards
‘Sanford and Son’ Actor Dead At 91
Ray- mond G. Allen Sr., an actor who played roles in classic 70’s television shows like
Sanford RAYMOND and Son ALLEN, SR.
and Good Times has died. According to TMZ, Allen was found unresponsive early Mon- day morning at a long-term care facility in California. He had been living there since 2016
after bouts with pneumonia. Allen’s family told TMZ he died as a result of respiratory is- sues that were not related to
COVID-19.
Allen played Uncle Woody
in Sanford and Son and Ned the Wino on Good Times. He also had roles in Starsky and Hutch, The Jeffersons, What’s Happening and The Love Boat.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — First, Oprah Winfrey put Bre- onna Taylor on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. Now the media mogul is spreading her message with billboards demanding justice for the Kentucky woman shot to death during a police raid.
Twenty-six billboards are going up across Louisville, Kentucky, demanding that the police officers involved in Tay- lor’s death be arrested and charged, according to news outlets. That’s one billboard for every year of the Black woman’s life.
Taylor, an emergency med- ical tech studying to become a nurse, was shot multiple times March 13 when police officers burst into her Louisville apart- ment using a no-knock war- rant during a narcotics investigation. The warrant to search her home was in con-
BREONNA TAYLOR BILLBOARD
Taylor, George Floyd in Minnesota and others have been part of a national reckon- ing over racism and police brutality. Tensions have swelled in Taylor’s home- town and beyond as activists, professional athletes and so- cial media stars push for ac- tion while investigators plead for more patience.
The decision whether to bring state-level criminal charges against the Louisville officers rests with Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. He took the Taylor case after a local prosecutor recused himself from review- ing the matter.
Cameron, the first African American elected to the job in Kentucky, has declined to put a timetable on his decision since taking over the case in May.
nection with a suspect who did not live there and no drugs were found.
Kenneth Walker, Tay- lor’s boyfriend, was originally charged with attempted mur- der after he fired a shot at one
of the officers who came into the home. Walker has said he didn’t know who was entering the apartment and was firing a warning shot. The charge was later dropped.
Global protests on behalf of
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