Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were asleep in their Louisville, KY, apartment .

Just before 1 am March 13, plainclothes Louisville police officers executing a drug search warrant burst through their door.

Walker believed intruders were breaking into their apartment, according to a lawsuit by Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer.

Walker called 911 and fired, shooting an officer in the leg. He had a license to carry. Taylor was unarmed.

The lawsuit accuses police of “blindly firing” more than 20 shots. 8 hitting Taylor, 26, a former emergency medical technician.

Walker, 27, was arrested and charged with assault and attempted murder.

Taylor and Walker had no criminal history or drug convictions, and no drugs were found during the raid, the suit states.

In an open letter to law enforcement on the Boogaloo Facebook page, an unidentified member calls for ending such no-knock raids:

“I am asking you and your agencies to put an end to the practice of no knock raids. Once again we hear of the wrong house being entered, a man trying to defend himself from a home invasion and having his girlfriend murdered.

“Absolutely nothing constructive, meaningful, or worthwhile comes of this practice. What we get are ... innocent people being murdered by botched police work. Stop yourselves long enough to take stock of what you’re doing.

“You’re murdering citizens in their homes. You all swore an oath to the constitution. Which part of the oath, or the document mentions murdering citizens in the dark of night?”

Alex Friedfeld, an investigative researcher at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism in Chicago said, “I think for a lot of boogaloo-ers, their primary interest is resisting the state, what they believe to be state tyranny.

“They oppose these [pandemic] directives. They’re upset about no-knock raids, police brutality. The George Floyd case ... is an example of police brutality.

“It’s not surprising that they showed up to protest.”

On a Boogaloo Facebook Page called Big Igloo Boys with nearly 34,000 followers, appeared:

“George Floyd ... was murdered in Minneapolis ... by the Minneapolis Police Department. We must set aside our differences and unite against a common enemy in the police state.

“Wear your PPE (personal protection equipment). Come in peace, prepare for ... violence. Departments around the country have shown that they’re ready to agitate a crowd to illicit a violent response. This gives them an excuse to react with greater violence towards otherwise peaceful protesters. The media then uses the violence to discredit an entire event.”

Reports of protesters in Hawaiian shirts carrying guns started coming out this spring as people demonstrated their dissatisfaction with government directives to close much of the country due to covid-19.

Words like “big igloo” and “big luau” became terms for those in the know and Hawaiian shirts became an identifier of its members.