Pictured is Breonna Taylor , with Oprah Winfrey and individually), and of whom Louisville Metro police shot and killed in March when they barged into her home unannounced via a no knock warrant, Taylor unarmed and shot eight times. Taylor would have turned 27 on June 5

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky-Media mogul and billionaire Oprah Winfrey is demanding that the Louisville Metro cops involved in the shooting death in March of unarmed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor be indicted on criminal charges, only one of the police officers, detective Brett Hankinson, terminated behind the tragic killing of the young Black woman, and none of them charged criminally.

The other two officers who were with Hankison when he gunned down Taylor at her home this year, Sgt, Jonathan Mattingly and officer Myles Cosgrove, remain on administrative leave with pay.

Oprah is financing 26 billboards across the city of Louisville calling for the indictments, a billboard for each of the 26-years Taylor was alive before she was erroneously gunned down.

Winfrey also  stepped off the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine, for the first time in 20 years to feature Taylor on the cover of the latest issue, her picture an edited image that Taylor had of herself before she was killed.

The controversial billboards cite a a link to untilfreedom.com

, a new activist group led by former Women's March leaders and co-founders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, and the billboards quote the 66-year-old Winfrey as saying "if you turn a blind eye to racism, you become an accomplice to it."

All three cops at issue are White, which has heightened racial tensions in the Louisville community, the city only 23 percent Black, and Jefferson County, which includes Louisville, just 19 percent Black.

The state of Kentucky, with Louisville its largest city in front of Lexington, has a Black population of a mere eight percent.

Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert J. Schroeder fired Hankison, saying he violated departmental rules and procedures, and deadly force standards in shooting and killing Taylor.

"When Hankison and two other plainclothes officers used a no-knock warrant to enter Taylor’s apartment March 13, he wantonly and blindly fired 10 rounds," said  Chief Schroeder in firing Hankison.

Then a 26-year- old emergency room technician, police shot and killed Taylor on March 13 in her Louisville apartment after three cops barged in via a no-knock narcotics warrant, the city later outlawing no-knock warrants behind the Taylor tragedy.

Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a gun off when they entered allegedly unannounced, and Taylor, in turn, was killed by police due to no fought of her own.

Taylor was shot eight times.

Police claim her residence was suspected of drug activity and that a car registered to her was allegedly seen parked at a nearby residence under police surveillance for alleged drug dealing activity by an ex- acquaintance.

No drugs were found.

Taylor's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family, want the remaining two cops fired also, and criminal charges brought against all three police officers.

June 5 would have been Brenonna's 27th birthday, had she not been gunned down in March by Louisville Metro police,

Federal lawmakers like U.S. Sen Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, both former presidential candidates and potentials to be on Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden's ticket as vice president commented on her would-have-been birthday.

"Today should have been Breonna's 27th birthday but her life was horrifically taken by officers," said Sen Harris in a tweet on Breonna's would-have-been birthday. "Keep up the calls for justice."

Sen. Warren tweeted that Taylor is among so many Blacks victimized by racism and police brutality in America.

"We honor their lives by continuing the fight for justice," tweeted Warren, "for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Stephon Clark, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, and all the Black lives we've lost to racist violence."

Taylor's shooting death by police drew protests in Louisville, and nationwide, which came behind the police killing on May 25 of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the rally for Taylor also culminating in calls for systemic changes in policing.

Seven people got shot in the crowd during one of Louisville's protest for justice for Breonna, one critically.

Floyd's killing, like that of Breonna, has heightened racial unrest across the country.

A 46-year-old Black man, Floyd died when since fired White cop Derek Chauvin, the arresting officer, held his knee on his neck until he killed him, and before a crowd of people as the Black man pleaded for his life and cried out that he could not breathe.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Five Cleveland Browns players have opted-out of the 2020-2021 season, taking advantage of an agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players Association that gives players such an option behind the coronavirus pandemic, the agreement designed to protect the safety of the players and to obviously protect football franchises form potential liability.

Today, Aug 6, by 4 pm EST, is the deadline for opting out, some 62 players taking the option that for voluntary opt-outs tolls the contract for a season, eliminates an accrued season, and  provides for eligibility for a $150,000 stipend and salary advance.

Those opting out for high risk reasons, such as an illness, must have an underlying health condition, and would receive an accrued season, and be illegible for a $350,000 stipend.

High-risk players who choose not to play this season, however, would not get a salary advance.

A player or perspective player is not permitted to opt-in or opt-out beyond today's deadline.

Opting out on the Browns team are Drew Forbes, Drake Dorbeck, Andrew Billings, Kobe Gossett, and Malcolm Pridgeon, at least two of them free agents who signed with the Browns, and none of them star players.

Some 56 NFL players have tested positive for the virus, some two percent of the roster.

The Patriots, the six-time Super Bowl champs, have posted the largest number of opt-out players at eight, losing their running back and starting guard for the season, at least.

The Lions, Jets, Cowboys, Coats, Chiefs,  and Dolphins had some three players opt-out on each team.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.