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Five years ago today, police burst into Breonna Taylor's home and shot her dead. @19thnews spoke to her mother, Tamika Palmer, about her ongoing quest for truth and justice, and how she is spending today. “I just want to honor her myself,” Palmer said. “I don’t want to argue with the world, I don’t want to share her with the world, I don’t want to have to prove that she deserves justice.”

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The 19th · Breonna Taylor’s mother remembersBy Errin Haines
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Ex-officer found guilty in death of Breonna Taylor

A former police officer in the US state of Kentucky has been found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in her own home during a botched raid four years ago.
Brett Hankison, 47, could face up to life in prison after being convicted of using excessive force against the 26-year-old emergency room technician.

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www.bbc.comEx-officer Brett Hankison guilty in death of Breonna TaylorBrett Hankison is the first officer convicted in the 2020 botched raid on Taylor's apartment

Reminder... Under a Trump presidency, there would be no accountability for #BreonnaTaylor. Police would be free to kill with impunity.

Ex-officer Brett Hankison violated Breonna Taylor's civil rights in deadly raid, jury finds nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brett

NBC News · Ex-officer Brett Hankison violated Breonna Taylor's civil rights in deadly raid, jury findsBy Melissa Chan
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The #Louisville Metro PD faced intense scrutiny after #BreonnaTaylor’s death, & activists protested in the city for months. The police chief was fired in 2020 amid the demonstrations, & a report by the #DOJ last year found that the department had shown a pattern of discriminating against Black people.

On Fri, Ms Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, celebrated the verdict against Hankison & noted that it had been >1k days since her daughter’s death.

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The warrant to raid the home was based on shoddy surveillance. 3 officers were charged by federal prosecutors w/knowingly including false information in an affidavit to get a judge to approve the raid. One of them, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in 2022. The case against the 2 other officers, Joshua Jaynes & Kyle Meany, is still open.

The killing brought national attention to “no-knock” warrants, which allow the police to burst into homes w/o warning.

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Officers were seeking evidence that #BreonnaTaylor’s fmr boyfriend was selling drugs when they barged through her door on Mar 13, 2020. They were met by gunfire from her current boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who said he believed the officers were intruders. Walker fired a bullet that hit an officer in the leg.

2 officers, Myles Cosgrove & Jonathan Mattingly, immediately returned fire & shot Ms. Taylor. But they were never charged; prosecutors argued that they had been justified in their actions.

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He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison & is scheduled to be sentenced in March.

It is not the first time that Hankison has faced a jury in the case. Last year, a judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to come to a unanimous verdict on federal #CivilRights charges. He was previously acquitted of similar state charges.

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Hankison, who is white, was the only officer to be charged for his actions during the botched operation that set off a wave of protests across the country. But his shots did not kill #BreonnaTaylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who worked as an emergency room technician. Two other officers, also white, fired the fatal shots, but neither was charged.

The fmr police detective who fired 10 shots through #BreonnaTaylor’s apartment in a deadly raid in Louisville, KY, in 2020 was found #guilty on Friday night of violating her #CivilRights by using excessive force.

But the federal jury earlier in the evening cleared the fmr officer, Brett Hankison, of violating the rights of Ms. Taylor’s neighbors….

#BLM #PoliceViolence #Law #justice #SystemicRacism
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The New York Times · Federal Jury Finds Ex-Officer Brett Hankison Guilty of Violating Breonna Taylor’s RightsBy Orlando Mayorquín

👉🏼👉🏼Ex-officer Brett Hankison violated Breonna Taylor's civil rights in deadly raid, jury finds

“A jury on Friday found a former Kentucky police officer guilty of violating #BreonnaTaylor’s civil rights in a botched raid that led to her death, NBC affiliate WAVE of Louisville reported.

The jury earlier Friday found Brett Hankison not guilty of a second count that accused him of violating the civil rights of Taylor’s neighbor.
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NBC News · Ex-officer Brett Hankison violated Breonna Taylor's civil rights in deadly raid, jury findsBy Melissa Chan

😳“A judge in #Kentucky has dismissed core charges against two former Louisville police officials involved in the raid that ended in #BreonnaTaylor's death.

Judge Charles R. Simpson III of western Kentucky's U.S. District Court on Thursday 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” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentu

NBC News · Kentucky judge dismisses core charges against two former officers connected to Breonna Taylor's deathBy Dennis Romero