A judge in Kentucky has dismissed core charges against two former Louisville police officials involved in the raid that ended in Breonna Taylor’s death.
Judge Charles R. Simpson III of western Kentucky’s U.S. District Court on Thursday, Aug. 22, said Taylor’s death was triggered by the actions of her boyfriend, who opened fire when police arrived outside her Louisville apartment March 13, 2020. Regardless of whether former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt.
Jaynes and Meany weren’t at the raid, and her death was more directly tied to Walker’s decision to open fire, the judge wrote. “The Court finds that the warrantless entry was not the actual cause of Taylor’s death,” he wrote in his decision. “The Court also concludes that the Death-Results charge requires proof of proximate cause and that allegations in this case show that the warrantless entry was not the proximate cause of Taylor’s death and even if it were, K.W.
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