BREAKING: Kentucky grand jury indicts one officer, Brett Hankison, on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree in the shooting case of Breonna Taylor.
Breonna Taylor Grand Jury AnnouncementA Kentucky grand jury indicted one officer, Brett Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree in the shooting case of Breonna Taylor.
Taylor's family had called for criminal charges to be filed against the three officers involved in the shooting.People wait for the decision in the criminal case against police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot dead by police in her apartment, in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 23, 2020.
The settlement, which lawyers for the Taylor family say is the largest ever paid out for a Black woman killed in an alleged police misconduct case, also includes an agreement from the city to implement major reforms in the police department in hopes of preventing a similar tragedy from occurring. The warrant required the police to verify with postal inspectors that the ex-boyfriend was receiving packages at Taylor's address.
Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were sleeping inside their apartment when three white police officers attempted to execute a"no-knock" search warrant. The three plainclothes officers forced open Taylor's front door and"blindly" fired into the apartment, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Palmer in April.People listen during a speech at Jefferson Square park, Sept.21, 2020 in Louisville, Ky.
In a civil suit, Walker’s attorneys allege that Mattingly may have been struck by friendly fire, not by a bullet from Walker's gun.Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks during the second day of the Republican convention in Washington, D.C., Aug. 25, 2020.
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