The Justice Division on Friday requested a court docket to drop costs in opposition to two former cops accused of offering false info on a search warrant that led to the deadly 2020 police raid on the residence of Breonna Taylor.
First bringing costs in opposition to the officers in 2022, federal prosecutors alleged that Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany supplied false info on the search warrant that allowed police to enter Taylor’s Louisville dwelling. They had been additionally charged with civil rights violations.
In a filing Friday, an lawyer with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, stated these costs ought to be dropped, and stated the division has notified Taylor’s household of the transfer.
On this June 25, 2020, file photograph, indicators are held up displaying Breonna Taylor throughout a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky.
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A federal decide had twice struck felony costs in opposition to the 2 officers, lowering them to misdemeanors, most lately in 2025.
“The Authorities undertook an extra evaluate of this matter,” in line with the submitting. “Primarily based on that evaluate, and within the train of its discretion, the Authorities has decided that this case ought to be dismissed within the curiosity of justice.”
Whether or not the remaining costs are in the end dropped is as much as a decide, who has but to challenge a ruling.
Taylor was fatally shot within the 2020 raid that got here as plainclothes Louisville officers had been serving a warrant trying to find Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, who they alleged was dealing medication, however who was not on the residence.
On this Sept. 18, 2020, file photograph, two ladies maintain an indication of Breonna Taylor throughout a rally in Louisville, Ky.
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Officers broke down the door to Taylor’s residence, and her then-current boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who thought somebody was breaking into the house, fired one shot with a handgun, placing an officer within the leg.
Three different officers returned fireplace, taking pictures 32 bullets into the residence.
A former Louisville officer, Brett Hankison, was convicted of a civil rights offense in reference to Taylor’s dying through the raid and sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail.
