Four Louisville police officers are facing federal charges in the drug raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
A painting of Breonna Taylor is among the art pieces decorating the center of Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Ky., for a memorial on the two-year anniversary of Taylor's death, March 13, 2022.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The U.S. Justice Department has charged four Louisville police officers involved in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid with civil rights violations. Federal charges against former officers Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison and Kelly Goodlett, along with Sgt. Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday.Garland said federal officials “share but cannot fully imagine the grief” felt by Taylor’s family.Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker, was shot to death by Louisville officers who had knocked down her door while executing the search warrant.
Hankison, who was dismissed from the department in 2020, was one of the officers at Taylor’s door and one of three who fired shots that night. He was acquitted by a jury of state charges of wanton endangerment earlier this year in Louisville. Jaynes had applied for the warrant to search Taylor’s house. He was fired in January 2021 by former Louisville Police interim chief Yvette Gentry for violating department standards in the preparation of a search warrant execution and for being “untruthful” in the Taylor warrant.
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