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Dem Rep.-elect: GOP Thought 'Breonna Taylor' Mask Was My Name

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Rep.-elect Cori Bush, D-Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP)

By    |   Tuesday, 17 November 2020 04:08 PM EST

Rep.-elect Cori Bush, D-Mo., the state's first Black congresswoman, says Republicans called her "Breonna" while she was wearing a Breonna Taylor face mask during orientation on the Capitol for new lawmakers.

"It did not seem like they were being malicious," Bush told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront." "They just did not know.

"But then after the next, and next, and the next, then I really started to feel hurt, because I'm like this has been a national movement . . . the reports are between 15 and 26 million people protested up to July – from June to July. How do you not know? And we claim ourselves – we asked, we signed up – to be leaders," she continued.

Bush first tweeted about the incidents last Friday.

Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was killed by Kentucky police in March in a case that sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.

Former officer Brett Hankison was charged by a Louisville grand jury with three counts of wanton endangerment, a low-level felony, for firing into an adjacent apartment where people were present. The two officers who shot Taylor, according to ballistics evidence, were not charged by the grand jury.

One of those officers, Jonathan Mattingly, was shot by Taylor's boyfriend during the raid and returned fire. Taylor's boyfriend said he thought an intruder was breaking into her apartment.

Solange Reyner

Solange Reyner is a writer and editor for Newsmax. She has more than 15 years in the journalism industry reporting and covering news, sports and politics.

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Rep.-elect Cori Bush, D-Mo., the state's first Black congresswoman, says Republicans called her "Breonna" while she was wearing a Breonna Taylor face mask during orientation on the Capitol for new lawmakers.
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