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Kris Smith Becomes Second Breonna Taylor Protest Leader to Be Killed in Under a Month

HeadlineDec 14, 2020

In Louisville, Kentucky, another prominent figure in the protests demanding justice for Breonna Taylor was shot dead. Forty-two-year-old business owner and activist Kris Smith was killed Friday, just weeks after 21-year-old Hamza “Travis” Nagdy was fatally shot. Like Nagdy, Kris Smith was inside a car at the time of the shooting. Loved ones and community members held a vigil for Kris Smith on Saturday.

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