FIA INVESTIGATING LEWIS HAMILTON FOR ‘ARREST THE COPS’ T-SHIRT

Formula 1 bosses are investigating whether Lewis Hamilton’s T-shirt highlighting the shooting of Breonna Taylor broke rules. Hamilton wore the shirt before and after winning the Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday.

The FIA are investigating Lewis Hamilton for his T-shirt splashed with the message “arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor”, which he wore before and after his win at the Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday.

The words “say her name” and a photograph were on the back of Hamilton’s shirt.

A spokesman for governing body the FIA said the case was “under active consideration”.

Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman, was killed by police officers who burst into her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, in March.

One police officer involved was fired by the city’s police department in June. Two other officers have been placed on administrative reassignment. No criminal charges have been filed against any of the three.

“It took me a long time to get that shirt and I’ve been wanting to wear that and bring awareness to the fact that there’s people that have been killed on the street and there’s someone that got killed in her own house, and they’re in the wrong house, and those guys are still walking free,” Hamilton said after the race at Mugello.

“We can’t rest, we can’t… we have to continue to raise awareness with it.”

US Open champion Naomi Osaka wore a face mask with Taylor’s name on it – one of a series of masks she wore on her way to the title.

Source: Eurosport With additional reporting from Reuters Image: Toronto Star