Louisville city council unanimously pass 'Breonna's Law' to ban no-knock warrants

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Louisville city council unanimously pass 'Breonna's Law' to ban no-knock warrants
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NEW: Louisville city council votes unanimously to pass ban on no-knock warrants, a measure known as “Breonna’s Law,” named after the former EMT who died in a police raid at her apartment.

“This is one of many critical steps on police reform that we’ve taken to create a more peaceful, just, compassionate and equitable community,” Fischer said on Twitter Thursday.

At a March 13 news conference, police Lt. Ted Eidem said officers had knocked on the door several times and"announced their presence as police who were there with a search warrant." After forcing their way in, they “were immediately met by gunfire,” Eidem said. A spokesman for the department said Wednesday that Det. Joshua Jaynes has been placed on administrative reassignment amid anTaylor’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against three of the officers — Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove — who arrived to execute the warrant, accusing them of"blindly firing" more than 20 shots into the apartment. Taylor was shot eight times and died.

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