Three officers are charged with knowingly using false information to obtain a search warrant to search Taylor’s home. A fourth officer was charged with civil rights violations
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers for their roles in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was in her home, in a case that sparked nationwide protests.
A fourth officer, former Detective Brett Hankinson, was charged with civil rights violations for allegedly using excessive force, U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland said.The death of Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was one in a trio of cases that fuelled a summer of protests against racial injustice and police violence two years ago, in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louisville police were investigating alleged drug trafficking when they broke down the door of Taylor’s home, leading her boyfriend, who was carrying a legally owned firearm, to shoot at the officers, who responded by firing 22 shots into the apartment, killing Taylor, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that Jaynes and Goodlett met in a garage days after the shooting to agree on a false story to cover for the false evidence they had submitted to justify the botched raid.
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