This Thursday, the United States government charged four agents and former agents with alleged civil rights violations. Breonn Tayloran African-American woman who was shot dead in March 2020 during a drug operation in her home where no drugs were found.
Attorney General Mr. USAMerrick Garland, at a press conference, announced these accusations against workers and former members of the Louisville (Kentucky) Metropolitan Police Department.
“These alleged crimes include civil rights violations, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force, and obstruction of wrongdoing,” Garland said.
Ministry of Justice accused Joshua Janes, Kelly Goodlett and Kyle Meany of violating civil rights Taylor, 26 for using an affidavit they knew was false to obtain a search warrant for his home in order to carry out the raid that killed him.
The three agents were “looking for a search warrant in the house mrs taylor knowing there’s no reason to look,” Garland said.
That’s what the police did
The raid took place as part of an anti-drug operation, when the police requested several warrants to search several houses.
In case of housing TaylorGarland explained that the defendants “falsely” claimed that some packages connected with the drug trafficking network had arrived there.
“We contend that the defendants knew that the affidavit in support of the search warrant contained false and misleading information and that it did not contain substantive information,” he said.
After the raid began, the officers stormed housing Taylorwhere the woman was with another man, her boyfriend, who “legally owned a firearm” and who thought the police officers were intruders who were trying to rob him, so he opened fire on them, the attorney general said.
“At once 2 officers fired a total of 22 shots at the apartment,” Garland added, “one of the shots hit mrs taylor in the chest and killed her,” he said.
The fourth defendant is Brett Hankinson, who, according to the Attorney General USA., he allegedly “moved from the entrance towards the apartment and fired ten more shots through the window and the sliding glass door, which were covered with blinds and curtains.”
Hankinson “was charged with two civil rights violations, alleging that he willfully used unconstitutional excessive force,” Garland said.
Last March, a Louisville jury acquitted Hankinson, who found him not guilty on several counts, including endangering the lives of Taylor’s neighbors when he blindly fired his service weapon during a raid.
Death Taylor March 13, 2020 came just months before the killing of African-American George Floyd in May of that year, which triggered the largest wave of protests and race riots in the US since the 1970s.
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Source: RPP
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