Last Updated: 14/09/20 2:18pm
The FIA are investigating Lewis Hamilton for wearing a T-shirt with a message about the shooting of Breonna Taylor both before and after his win at the Tuscan GP.
F1’s six-time champion wore the top on the podium as he collected his winner’s trophy and ended his immediate post-race interview by saying: “Justice for Breonna Taylor.”
The 26-year-old Taylor, a medical worker, was shot and killed by plain-clothes police officers raiding her home in Louisville, Kentucky, in March.
The front of Hamilton’s shirt featured the words ‘Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor’, while the back contained her picture below the words ‘say her name’.
Hamilton first wore the T-shirt ahead of the race when he again took a knee, as F1 drivers gathered in their anti-racism ceremony.
Speaking in subsequent interviews, Hamilton said: “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.
“We can’t rest, we can’t… we have to continue to raise awareness with it.”
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