Outrage Erupts After Republican Women’s Club Hosts Event Featuring Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor Raid at Kentucky Restaurant

Diners at a Kentucky restaurant were outraged this week when they found a Republican women’s club hosting an event featuring one of the officers involved in the 2020 police raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

According to the local NAACP chapter and witnesses, patrons at Anna’s Greek Restaurant in Bowling Green were not informed of the event and may have been exposed to graphic depictions of the raid that led to Taylor’s death.

Cayce Johnson, a 34-year-old diner, told The Washington Post that at one point, graphic video footage of the raid was allegedly played loudly in the restaurant. “You could hear the gunshots in the footage,” Johnson said.

The Bowling Green-Warren County branch of the NAACP said it was “outraged” and “profoundly dismayed” over the incident. The branch called for an investigation into the event and for the restaurant to take “immediate action” to ensure that such an incident does not happen again.

The Republican women’s club has yet to comment on the incident. However, Anna’s Greek Restaurant released a statement saying it was “deeply sorry” for the incident and that it had “no knowledge” of the event prior to its occurrence. The restaurant also said it would be taking steps to ensure that similar events do not take place in the future.