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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