Breonna Taylor was killed by police in a late-night raid in her apartment on March 13 in Louisville, Kentucky. Here’s how the New York Times describes her death:

Breonna Taylor had fallen asleep watching TV beside her boyfriend when Louisville police officers punched in her door with a battering ram. Fearing an intruder, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, reached for his gun and fired one shot, wounding an officer.

The police returned fire: A barrage of bullets from different directions tore through nearly every room in Taylor’s apartment, then into two adjoining ones. They sliced through a soap dish, a chair and a table and shattered a sliding-glass door.

Taylor, a 26-year-old trained E.M.T. who hoped to become a nurse and kept her life goals written on Post-it notes around her apartment, was shot five times. She bled out on the floor of her own home.

On May 25, George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests emerged immediately in response to Floyd’s death, which was captured on video. Quickly, the protests spread. The entire country was in revolt, with some of the largest protests in history taking place over the summer. In Louisville, as details of Taylor’s death continued to leak out, the racial justice protests focused on her case, with activists demanding justice for Breonna Taylor.