What happen to Breonna Taylor?
On March 13th, 2020, around midnight, Louisville Police Department broke down 26-year old Breonna Taylor’s apartment. LPD had received a signed no-knock warrant to search Breonna Taylor’s home after reports of suspicious drug-related packages were being sent to her apartment, with ties she had with a prior boyfriend. NOT Breonna Taylor's current boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, a common misconception circulating the media. LPD allegedly announced themselves, and after 45 seconds broke down the door. Breonna Taylor woke up and both her and Kenneth Walker got up announcing themselves loudly. In which Kenneth Walker grabs his registered gun and fires once, pointing down, striking Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly on the thigh. As a result, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly responded in gunfire, Detective Brett also followed with 10 shots of his own, to which he claimed were shot blindly. A total of 35 shots were fired, all across Breonna Taylors home, hitting her six times. Two shots which hit the home next door.
UPDATE:
On June 11th, 2020, Louisville officially banned the use of no-knock warrants. And more than a year after Breonna Taylor’s death in April 2021, the state of Kentucky partially bans no-knock warrants.
On September 23rd, 2020, Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that the Kentucky grand jury has filed no criminal charges against the officers responsible for Breonna Taylor’s murder & On March 8th 2021 all charges against Kenneth Walker, boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, have been permanently dropped. No criminal charges have been made to any of the officers.
“Detective Myles Cosgrove, one of the officers who shot Ms. Taylor, and Detective Joshua Jaynes, who prepared the search warrant for the raid, received letters of termination in late December, according to lawyers representing the officers. Detectives Cosgrove and Jaynes were officially fired on Jan. 5, according to The Louisville Courier-Journal.” The terminations were for the shots that went into the next door apartment, they got charged for endangerment to which they pleaded not guilty.
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