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Jury Questioning Delayed In Trial of Former Louisville Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Death
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison is charged with three counts of felony wanton endangerment for the bullets that entered a neighbor's apartment.
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A Black Man Was Shot by Georgia Cops Serving Drug Warrant. Attorneys Say Details Mirror Breonna Taylor Case
The parallels between Taylor and Johnny Lorenzo Bolton are overwhelming based on details provided by the family's attorney. Bolton's family wants answers.
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Internal Probe Found Officers Shouldn’t Have Fired Their Guns in Breonna Taylor Shooting: Report
It wasn’t just the public that thought the officers who shot Breonna Taylor were in the wrong; apparently a couple investigators in the Louisville Metro Police Department felt the same as well. A recently released report revealed that the investigators determined that the officers involved in the shooting shouldn’t have fired their guns at all.…
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Breonna Taylor's Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Files Federal Lawsuit Against Louisville and Police Officers Involved in Deadly Raid
On Tuesday, The Root reported that Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, was permanently cleared of charges of attempted murder and assault of a police officer which he was initially charged with after the deadly raid that took Taylor’s life on March 13, last year. But just because Walker is no longer in trouble…
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Tamika Palmer Files Complaints Against 6 Special Investigations Officers Involved in Breonna Taylor Case
Today marks exactly one year since Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in Louisville, Ky., by reckless police officers who were executing a search warrant that should never have been issued. It’s also been just over five months since it was officially decided that no one murdered Breonna Taylor and that nothing in the way…
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Criminal Charges Against Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Kenneth Walker Permanently Dropped
Nearly a year to the date that Louisville Metro Police Department officers entered 26-year-old Breonna Taylor’s home in a raid that ended with them shooting and killing the young woman, charges have finally been permanently dropped against her boyfriend Kenneth Walker. Judge Olu Stevens in Louisville, Kentucky, has ruled that the charges of attempted murder…
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Georgia High School Teacher Tells Class Breonna Taylor's Death Was Her 'Criminal' Boyfriend's and Her Own Fault
It’s about time we have a serious conversation about how a lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students. Earlier this Black History Month, The Root reported that a teacher in Florida—who must have gotten his doctorate in unmitigated caucasity long before he achieved the credentials that put him in charge of…
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Tyler Perry Donates $100,000 to the Legal Defense Fund of Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend, Kenneth Walker
Deadline reports that writer-director-producer and Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry donated $100,000 last weekend to the legal defense fund of Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, a young ER technician tragically shot and killed in her own home by Louisville Metro Police officers issuing a no-knock warrant in March of this year. Her death sparked…
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Louisville Police Officer Who Raided Breonna Taylor’s Apartment Sues Boyfriend Kenneth Walker for Emotional Distress, Assault
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, the Louisville Metro police officer who earlier this month claimed that the cops’ biggest mistake the night they barged into Breonna Taylor’s home was not going in sooner, is suing Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker for “severe trauma, mental anguish, and emotional distress” he experienced as a result of Walker’s actions that night.…
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Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly Claims He Was Also a Victim in Breonna Taylor’s Death, Casts Blame on Kenneth Walker
In his first interview since barging into the home of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in March, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly of the Louisville Metro Police Department said he would certainly do things differently if he were able to redo that night. He would have entered Taylor’s home sooner. “We expected that Breonna was going to be there…