Taylor and Walker yelled to ask who was at the door but got no response, Walker said afterward. Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, when the officers announced their presence and then battered down the front door. In the early hours of March 13, Hankison and other officers executed a warrant at Taylor’s apartment. One of those locations was Taylor’s residence.
On March 12, 2020, a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge approved five search warrants for locations linked to Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, a convicted felon suspected of supplying a local drug house. Here’s a look at the raid, Taylor’s death and its aftermath.
The death of 26-year-old Taylor, an emergency room technician, along with that of George Floyd and others, sparked nationwide protests in 2020, leading to changes in policing policy and laws. Only Hankison was charged at the state level. Kyle Meany, 35, were charged with submitting a false affidavit to search Taylor’s home ahead of the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s raid, and then working together to create a “false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing the warrant affidavit that contained false information,” according to court documents.Įx-detective Brett Hankison is alleged to have “willfully used unconstitutionally excessive force … when he fired his service weapon into Taylor’s apartment through a covered window and covered glass door.” Hankison, who fired 10 shots into Taylor’s home and was acquitted of state wanton endangerment charges earlier this year, has been indicted on two federal counts of deprivation of rights under color of law.
Courtesy Ben Crumpįour current, former Louisville police officers federally charged in Breonna Taylor's deathįormer Detective Joshua Jaynes, 40, Detective Kelly Goodlett and Sgt. A photo of Breonna Taylor provided by Attorney Ben Crump.
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