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Louisville prosecutor refuses to drop charges against Breonna Taylor protesters [1]
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Date: 2022-09-08
Taylor, 26, was an emergency medical technician. She was killed when police raided her home while executing an illegally obtained no-knock warrant on Mar. 13, 2020, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Taylor wasn't the subject of the warrant and was sleeping when officers rammed through her door.
"I can show time and time and time again how the law doesn't work in our favor, period," protest organizer Chris Will told the Courier Journal.
Louisville Metro Police officer Cory Evans was federally charged for bludgeoning an unarmed protester with a wooden riot stick while the person was kneeling, and officer Katie Crews was charged federally with unreasonable use of force after the shooting death of David McAtee, a local barbecue stand owner.
So far, about 70% of the 1,000 cases against the protesters—charged variously with blocking roadways, property damage, and threats of violence—have been dropped, but around 300 remain active.
Detective Sgt. Kyle Meany, one of four officers recently terminated by the Louisville Metro police department, is being accused by Will and others of concealing information to other officers about the no-knock warrant that ultimately led to Taylor’s death, the Courier Journal reports.
Court records found that for several days, Meany was surveilling Taylor’s apartment and knew that her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, had a concealed carry permit. Meany neglected to inform the detectives executing the search warrant at the apartment about the concealed permit.
On Wednesday, poet and activist Hannah Drake called out prosecutors and the police department, saying, "You called us thugs. You called us losers. We were the ones that were ruining this city. We didn't break the contract with this city.”
"Y'all are concerned about some broken windows. I'm concerned about the broken trust in this community. Every window is fixed. How do you fix Tamika Palmer? How do you fix Kenneth Walker?"
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