(The Guardian) Four officers arrested, face civil rights charges over Breonna Taylor death
Reuters reports that the justice department has brought charges against four current and former Louisville police officers over the death of Breonna Taylor, revitalizing a case that became a flashpoint for the racial justice protests in 2020:
The FBI on Thursday arrested and 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 woman who was shot in her home in a case that rocked the US.
Taylor, 26, was killed in Louisville, Kentucky in March 2020, when police executed a no-knock warrant in a botched narcotics raid. Police shot Taylor multiple times after her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at them on the assumption that they were intruders.
Federal charges against former officers Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison and Kelly Goodlett, along with Sgt Kyle Meany were announced by Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, on Thursday.
Declaring, “Breonna Taylor should be alive today”, attorney general Merrick Garland has given a briefing outlining the charges against the four current and former Louisville police officers involved in her death.
He alleged that they conspired to tell a false story to investigators, and one officer opened fire through a window during the raid that killed Taylor, even though he couldn’t see through it because the blinds were drawn.
Reuters reports that the justice department has brought charges against four current and former Louisville police officers over the death of Breonna Taylor, revitalizing a case that became a flashpoint for the racial justice protests in 2020:
The FBI on Thursday arrested and 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 woman who was shot in her home in a case that rocked the US.
Taylor, 26, was killed in Louisville, Kentucky in March 2020, when police executed a no-knock warrant in a botched narcotics raid. Police shot Taylor multiple times after her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at them on the assumption that they were intruders.
Federal charges against former officers Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison and Kelly Goodlett, along with Sgt Kyle Meany were announced by Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, on Thursday.
Declaring, “Breonna Taylor should be alive today”, attorney general Merrick Garland has given a briefing outlining the charges against the four current and former Louisville police officers involved in her death.
He alleged that they conspired to tell a false story to investigators, and one officer opened fire through a window during the raid that killed Taylor, even though he couldn’t see through it because the blinds were drawn.
