Kerry Washington remembers police killing victim Breonna Taylor on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Kerry Washington remembered Breonna Taylor on Monday while appearing as a guest on the at-home version of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The 43-year-old actress dedicated her charity appearance to the African American Policy Forum that created the #SayHerName campaign to focus on black women killed by police officers.

‘A lot of the women who have been the victim of police killings, those names have not been celebrated and honored and AAPF works to make sure that is not the case,’ said Washington who played Olivia Pope on Scandal from 2012 to 2018.

She then brought up Taylor, a 26-year-old black emergency medical technician who was fatally shot in March by Louisville Metro Police Department officers.

The Hollywood star noted that Taylor had been fighting on the frontlines against the COVID-19 pandemic when she was killed by police.

Washington said Taylor, who was shot at least eight times, died in a ‘debacle of a police raid’ and added that it was ‘unfathomable these officers are not in custody’.

The New York City native also spoke about the ‘resurgence’ of her Netflix film American Son based on the Broadway play of the same name.

The film released in September on the streaming service stars Washington as mother Kendra Ellis-Connor who waits in a Miami police station along with her white, estranged FBI agent husband to learn the fate of their son Jamal who has suddenly disappeared.

Kerry said the recent police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minnesota and the wave of protests that followed has helped viewers of the movie who ‘now get it’ or have more questions.

The Confirmation star said she and the cast of American Son will participate in a Live Tweet on Thursday to chat about the film.

Washington said that will be followed by an Instagram Live session with Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 61, co-founder of the African American Policy Forum and creator of the #SayHerName campaign.

The actress said they will discuss how to be part of the solution while educating people on female victims of systemic police violence such as Taylor and Sandra Bland.

The event ‘will focus on the way this injustice impacts people across the board, male and female,’ she said.

Washington and husband Nnamdi Asomugha, 38, have a six-year-old daughter Isabelle and three-year-old son Caleb together.

The actress also said she had been thinking ‘a lot about education’ and introducing her children to ideas of race. She cited the new Alicia Keys memoir More Myself as inspiration to teach children about black history that occurred before blacks were oppressed under slavery and Jim Crow laws referencing Egyptian accomplishments and Maasai warriors, as examples.

Washington said that such an emphasis could help children ‘understand the beautiful complexity, elegance and richness of black history before refusing to be put in the back of the bus’.

The actress also was promoting her new Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere also co-starring Reese Witherspoon, 44, that premiered in March.