A former Kentucky police detective pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to violate the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old emergency room technician who was shot dead when Louisville police officers served a no-knock warrant on her apartment, where she was sleeping with her boyfriend. Kelly Hanna Goodlett, 35, admitted to helping fellow officers falsify …
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that the Justice Department has charged four current and former Kentucky police officers for civil rights violations in the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor. “The Justice Department has charged four current and former Louisville Metro Police Department officers with federal crimes related to Breonna Taylor’s death,” …
On Thursday, a jury acquitted a former Kentucky police officer in the March 2020 raid that endangered Breonna Taylor’s neighbors. WLKY reported that ex-Louisville cop Brett Hankison was found not guilty of three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. The charges did not pertain to Taylor’s shooting death, but the shots Hankison allegedly fired into a …
On Monday, a Kentucky judge ruled criminal charges be permanently dropped against Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who allegedly shot at police officers during last March’s raid that resulted in Taylor’s death. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Jefferson Circuit Judge Olu Stevens determined that charges of assault and attempted murder of a police officer against Kenneth Walker …
Officials are reportedly in the process of firing two Kentucky police officers involved in the March raid that killed Breonna Taylor. Interim Louisville Metro police Chief Yvette Gentry found Detective Myles Cosgrove violated department procedures in failing to “properly identify a target” before firing 16 rounds into Taylor’s apartment. An FBI investigation determined Cosgrove fired …
The lone Kentucky police officer charged in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor was sued Tuesday for an alleged sexual assault that occurred in 2018. Louisville attorney Margo Borders wrote in the lawsuit that then-officer Brett Hankison left her “physically injured and mentally battered” after “willfully, intentionally, painfully and violently” sexually assaulting her …
One of the Kentucky police officers involved in the March 13 raid left Breonna Taylor dead has countersued Taylor’s boyfriend, alleging emotional distress, assault, and battery. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Seargent Jonathan Mattingly wrote in his lawsuit against Kenneth Walker, 26, that the single shot Walker fired that night was “outrageous, intolerable, and offends …
“It was one mistake right after the other one.”
‘LMPD [was] more interested in including unsupported allegations to smear Kenny Walker than it [was] in actually finding the truth,’ his lawyer said
The Attorney General never asked the grand jury to consider homicide charges against the three officers
Two police officers were shot in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night amid protests responding to the attorney general’s announcement earlier Wednesday that none of the three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor were indicted on charges directly connected to her death. As CBS News reports, it is unclear if the officer shooting …
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that one officer will be criminally charged in relation to the shootout that killed Breonna Taylor, an emergency room technician who Louisville police fatally shot in March — but the charge pertains to Taylor’s neighbors. Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, 44, was indicted on three counts of …
