Share Looks like they hit it with a baseball bat along the back, Carson told CBS SF.
Photos of the bust show a missing chunk from the crown of the head, with additional damage to the neck and shoulder area.
Carson said that he believed the destruction was intentional. I don’t think there’s a single person in Oakland who doesn’t know who Breonna Taylor is, and I don’t think you attack a sculpture like that by accident, he told the news station, adding And I think that it was an act of racism and an act of aggression and intimidation.
Sculpted Breonna Taylor Bust in Downtown Oakland Vandalized Day After Christmas
Less than two weeks ago, a statue created to honor the life of Breonna Taylor debuted in Oakland s Latham Square; it was promptly broken into pieces the day after Christmas by unknown vandals.
The police killing of Breonna Taylor continued to fuel civic unrest after a Kentucky grand jury decided to indict only one of the three Louisville Metro Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting back in March. None of the men involved were indicted on murder charges; Brett Hankison the now-terminated officer charged in the disturbance was given three counts of wanton endangerment over shots fired into adjacent apartments; his bond was set at $15,000; an FBI ballistics team calculated that around 22 shots were fired from the group of on-site officers.