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Story of Breonna Taylor

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Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, was killed by Louisville Metro Police Department officers as a result of a no-knock warrant.
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old medical technician, unarmed African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment on March 13, 2020, when white plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations.[discuss] Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was inside the apartment with her when the officers knocked on the door and then forced entry.[7][8] Officers said that they announced themselves as police before forcing entry, but Walker said he did not hear any announcement, thought the officers were intruders, and fired a warning shot at them.[9] According to officials, it hit Mattingly in the leg, and the officers fired 32 shots in return.[7][10][11] Walker was unhurt but Taylor was hit by six bullets and died.[7][12][13][14] According to police, Taylor's home was never searched.[9][15] On June 23, 2020, the LMPD fired Hankison for blindly firing through the covered patio door and window of Taylor's apartment.[16] On September 15, the city of Louisville agreed to pay Taylor's family $12 million and reform police practices.[17] On September 23, a state grand jury indicted Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering Taylor's neighbors with his shots.[18] None of the officers involved in the raid has been charged in Taylor's death.[19] Cosgrove was determined to have fired the fatal shot that killed Taylor.[20] On October 2, 2020, recordings from the grand jury investigation into the shooting were released.[21] The shooting of Taylor by white police officers led to protests that added to those already taking place across the United States. When a grand jury did not indict the officers for her death, further civil unrest ensued.
Persons Involved
Breonna Taylor worked for University of Louisville Health as a full-time ER technician and was a former emergency medical technician. Kenneth Walker was Taylor's boyfriend, who was present with her in the apartment at the time.
Jonathan Mattingly is an LMPD police officer who joined the department in 2000, became a sergeant in 2009, and joined the narcotics division in 2016. Brett Hankison was an LMPD detective. Hankison joined the department in 2003. The LMPD fired him on June 23, 2020. Myles Cosgrove is an LMPD police officer who was transferred to the department's narcotics division in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor
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