Breonna Taylor death: four Louisville police officers charged

[Jilly_in_VA]

The US Department of Justice on Thursday brought civil rights charges against four current and former Louisville police officers for their roles in the 2020 fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black women who was killed in her home, a case that stirred national protests over police brutality.

Federal investigators alleged that the members of a Louisville unit called Place-Based Investigations “falsified” the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant, violating Taylor’s civil rights.

The indictment noted that in early 2020, Louisville police obtained five search warrants as part of a drug investigation, four at locations in the city’s West End.

Another was issued for Taylor’s residence, 10 miles away, on suspicion that her ex-boyfriend, a convicted drug trafficker, stashed cash or packages there.

In March 2020, Louisville police conducted a no-knock warrant at Taylor’s home. After police entered, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a single shot from his handgun, as he believed intruders had entered the house.

The indictment states that Louisville police then shot into the apartment more than 30 times. Taylor was hit six times.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/breonna-taylor-death-louisville-police-officers-charged

The mills of justice grind slow, but grind exceedingly fine, my grandfather used to say. #JusticeForBreonna

[gratuitous]

1. Federal civil rights charges

Because Louisville and Kentucky doesn't give a hoot in hell about a Black woman snuffed by a gang of cops. Prove me wrong.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. They don't give a damn

about corruption in their police force either, but at least it's something.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Kentucky's AG shielded the cops ...

It’s getting harder to deny the likelihood that Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron lied, and lied multiple times, when he explained why a grand jury decided not to charge any police officer with a crime for killing Breonna Taylor. Cameron’s office presented evidence to the jury, but the only criminal charges he announced last week were against Brett Hankison, the Louisville officer who fired blindly into Taylor’s apartment on March 13 and accidentally sprayed ammo into a neighboring unit. The “wanton endangerment” charge he’s facing means that the only officer who will suffer legal consequences for the events surrounding Taylor’s death, at least for now, is the only one who didn’t have a direct hand in killing her. The other officers involved, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, shot Taylor six times out of more than 30 rounds fired between them.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/daniel-cameron-lied-about-grand-jury-louisville-police-breonna-taylor.html

[Aristus]

2. It's about time.

I was beginning to think a police spokesperson's "Oops! Our bad!" wasn't going to cut it...

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. It is like

the DOJ is on fire. Loving it.