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What to Know About Breonna Taylor’s Death [1]
['Richard A. Oppel Jr.', 'Derrick Bryson Taylor', 'Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs']
Date: 2024-03
The death of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker who was shot and killed by police officers in Louisville, Ky., in March 2020 during a botched raid on her apartment, was one of the main drivers of wide-scale demonstrations that erupted that year over policing and racial injustice in the United States.
No officer has ever been charged with shooting Ms. Taylor, but on Aug. 4, 2022, the Justice Department charged four current and former police officers with federal civil rights violations, including lying to obtain a search warrant for her apartment.
One of the four, Kelly Goodlett, a detective who retired after getting charged, pleaded guilty at a hearing on Aug. 23. Another officer among the four, Kyle Meany, was fired by the Louisville Police Department on Aug. 19.
A third officer facing the federal charges, Brett Hankison, was the only officer to face state charges in the raid, but a jury found him not guilty in March 2022. He had been charged with endangering Ms. Taylor’s neighbors after firing 10 bullets through a covered window and sliding glass door. Some bullets passed through Ms. Taylor’s apartment and into a neighboring one where a family had been sleeping.
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