Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Breonna Taylor of Louisville

 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Metro police department has fired one of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of
Breonna Taylor, more than three months after the 26-year-old black woman was killed in her home.
  A termination letter sent to Officer Brett Hankison released by the city’s police department today said Hankinson violated procedures by showing “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he “wantonly and blindly” shot 10 rounds of gunfire into Taylor’s apartment in March. The letter also said Hankison, who is white, violated the rule against using deadly force.

  Taylor, who was Black, was shot eight times by officers who burst into her Louisville home using a no-knock warrant during a March 13 narcotics investigation.  The warrant to search her home was in connection with a suspect who did not live there, and no drugs were found inside.  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/23/brett-hankison-officer-breonna-taylor-shooting-fir/

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