#FreeYBNCordae trends after rapper is arrested for 'trespassing' during Breonna Taylor protest in Kentucky
Rapper YBN Cordae was arrested on July 16 for allegedly trespassing on private property during a Black Lives Matter protest. The protest was being held for the police killing of Breonna Taylor with protestors seeking justice. A video of the arrest has been spreading around Twitter. In the clip, we see the 22-year-old rapper in handcuffs being taken by police while several other protestors are kept seated on the lawn of a local resident's home and watched over by officers. The multitude of tweets over his arrest includes demand to "Free Cordae", with hashtag "FreeYBNCordae". You can watch the video here.
Angry fans have commented, "FREE CORDAE, F**K THE POLICE, ARREST BREONNA TAYLOR’S MURDERERS" and "HE SHOULDNT BE ARRESTED FOR PROTESTING A F**KING MURDER." One fan wrote, "FREE CORDAE, all he did was stand up for those who matter to him, peaceful protests are not a setting in which someone should get arrested."
"YBN Cordae is one of the most peaceful guys in hip-hop, whatever they try to say to justify them arresting him... I won’t believe it," said a fan while another wrote, "One of the most positive and talented young voices in hip hop shouldn’t spend his 20s in a cell for protesting injustice." A fan who also wants him freed, but isn't necessarily in disagreement with the arrest said, "I want to say free Cordae but the arrest is vaild because hes trespassing. You cant just protest on people yard and think that is cool."
While it is unconfirmed where exactly the protest took place, a fan posted an early photo of the protesters in the street and on the lawn, pointing out that it happened in Lousiville, Kentucky. As previously mentioned, protestors want the policemen who killed Breonna Taylor brought to justice. Taylor was a 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician who was shot at least eight times in her Kentucky apartment. Her family has said that officers barged into her apartment in the middle of the night and opened fire during a "botched" drug raid looking for a suspect who was already in custody by then. Authorities have claimed that the midnight search was part of a drug investigation. However, the lawsuit filed by the family states there was no drug found at the home.