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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter · 2 years

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Justice for Breonna Taylor

4 of the officers involved in the raid are being federally charged for the raid on Breonna Taylor's home. They are being charged with lying on the affidavit to get the warrant for the raid, and they're being charged with repeatedly lying in the investigation which ultimately led to the raid.

These LMPD officers have been federally charged: Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison, Kelly Goodlett and Kyle Meany.

The offenses: Civil rights, unlawfully conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force, and obstruction.

US Attorney Merrick Garland says LMPD’s Place Based Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home, which resulted in her death.

Hankison’s charges stem from unconstitutionally excessive force when he fired upon Taylor’s apartment.

LMPD says termination procedures have started for Goodlett and Meany.

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #justice for breonna taylor #breonna taylor #say her name

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queenvlion · 2 years

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#breonnataylor #justiceforbre #breewayy #protect black essential workers #protect black women #protect black people #say their names #say her name #justice for breonna #justice for Breonna Taylor

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the Department of Justice has filed charges against four former and current Louisville police officers in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor. The charges include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses.

"The federal charges announced today allege that members of a Police Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms. Taylor's home and that this act violated federal civil rights laws, and that those violations resulted in Ms. Taylor's death," Garland said in a news conference.

The federal charges against detective Joshua Jaynes, former Louisville Detective Kelly Goodlett and Sergeant Kyle Meany allege they violated Taylor's Fourth Amendment rights when they sought a warrant to search Taylor's home while knowing they lacked probable cause, and that they knew their affidavit supporting the warrant contained false and misleading information and omitted other material information, resulting in her death.

"Among other things, the affidavit falsely claimed that officers had verified that the target of the alleged drug trafficking operation had received packages at Ms. Taylor's address. In fact, defendants Jaynes and Goodlett knew that was not true," Garland said during a press conference.

Garland also alleged that Jaynes and Goodlett knew armed officers will be carrying out the raid at Taylor's home, and that conducting the search could create "a dangerous situation for anyone who happened to be in Ms. Taylor's home."

Prosecutors allege that Jaynes and Goodlett met in a garage after Taylor's death "where they agreed to tell investigators" looking into the botched raid "a false story."

Charges have also been filed against Brett Hankison a former Louisville Metro Police officer who was involved in the death of Breonna Taylor. Hankison has been charged in a two-count indictment for deprivation of rights under color of law, both of which are civil rights offenses.

Hankison allegedly used unconstitutional excessive force during the raid when he fired 10 shots through a window and sliding glass door in Taylor's home that was covered in blinds and curtains after there was no longer a "lawful objective justifying the use of deadly force."

Hankison went to trial on state charges relating to the raid on Taylor's apartment and was found not guilty on all counts. He was charged with recklessly shooting into a neighboring apartment during the course of the raid that ended with the death of Breonna Taylor, not guilty on all three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree.

Taylor's death sparked protests nationwide, and outrage was further inflamed after no officers were charged in relation to her fatal shooting.

"The lack of accountability showcased in every aspect of Breonna’s killing speaks to how much more work there is to be done before we can say our justice system is fair and our system of policing is protective of people of color," Taylor's attorney, Ben Crump said after Hankison's trial in March.

The Justice Department has had a pattern or practice investigation ongoing into the Louisville Police Department since April 2021. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke from DOJ's Civil Rights Division told reporters the separate investigation remains ongoing and that DOJ has a team on the ground still conducting interviews with stakeholders and are conducting ride-alongs with police there.

Louisville officers conducted a raid of Taylor's apartment on March 13, 2020, at around 12:45 a.m. When officers broke down the door to the apartment, a guest in Taylor's home, thinking it was an intruder, fired a single gunshot using a legally purchased firearm, hitting the first officer at the door. Two Louisville officers then fired a total of 22 shots into the apartment, one of which hit Taylor in the chest, according to an information filed by the Justice Department.

A third officer moved from the doorway to the side of the apartment and fired ten more shots through a window and a sliding glass door, both of which were covered with blinds and curtains, according to an information filed by the Justice Department.

Garland also alleged that officers who carried out the raid were not involved in drafting the warrant and were unaware of the false and misleading statements it contained when they carried out the raid.

Garland said he spoke with Taylor's family earlier Thursday and informed them of the charges.

"We share, but we cannot fully imagine, the grief felt by Breonna Taylor's loved ones and all of those affected by the events of March 13, 2020. Breonna Taylor should be alive today," Garland said.

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mos-twin-mattress · 4 months

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This was her FAVORITE time of year... She should be spending it with family... she should be be alive. I'm pissed she's not. I'm so so pissed. I'm hurt. on the verge of tears.

Please dont forget her face, her name, her smile, her caring soul.

She wanted to be a nurse. Wanted to help mothers and babies... And she never got to.

The world was a better place when she was in it...

Merry Christmas Breonna... Thinkin ab you...

#justice for breonna #breonna taylor #say her name #abolish the police #abolish capitalism #abolitionist #black lives fucking matter #protect black women #protect black girls #remember her always #merry christmas breonna #thinking ab her heavy today

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angelicegodeath · 2 years

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#justice for breonna taylor #breonna taylor #blm #.img

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chloeworships · 2 years

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qq3x/fbi-arrest-breonna-taylor-police-brett-hankison

God ain’t playing out here y’all

THE INNOCENT AMONGST THE DEAD DESERVE JUSTICE AND THEIR BLOOD 🩸 CRIES OUT TO THE LORD❗️

#JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR

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theworldisyonces · 9 months

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The Renaissance World Tour: Show 26 - L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium - Louisville, Kentucky (7/17/23).

I know Black Parade felt even more special that night, because Breonna Taylor’s (victim of police brutality) family was there. Beyoncé had her fist raised up in the air longer than usual. ✊🏽

#beyoncé #beyonce #beyhive #breonna taylor #justice for breonna #black lives matter #black women matter #black parade #louisville kentucky #renaissance world tour

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blackgirlsreverything · 2 years

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I know this isn’t the end but I’m in tears. We will say your name forever!

#justice for breonna #breonna taylor #blm #say her name

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alwaysbewoke · 1 month

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yesiamreallyshort · 2 years

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#justice for breonna #breonna taylor #say her name

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queenvlion · 1 year

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#sandrabland #shanteldavis #pamelaturner #korryngaines #PriscillaSlater #brianna grier #atatiana jefferson #BreonnaTaylor #say their names #unknown #known #protectblack women #say her name #justice for breonna taylor

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androgynousbirdtale · 2 years

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Finally A Conviction For A Cop Who Helped Kill Breonna Taylor - A former Louisville officer pleads guilty on federal charges

Finally...

One of the first cops to face federal charges in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was killed in 2020 in a botched raid by Louisville police officers, pleaded guilty on one count of conspiracy this afternoon.

Former Louisville officer Kelly Goodlett was charged for her role in a scheme in which two other officers, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, provided false information in the affidavit used to secure the no-knock warrant that preceded the hail of bullets in which Taylor died. Goodlett then met up with Jaynes after the shooting in an attempt to concoct a coverup for their fatal misdeeds, prosecutors allege. Goodlett’s conviction finally makes real calls for justice from around the country, in which Taylor’s family, activists, and concerned people around the country turned into a mantra and a hashtag: Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.

That call fell on deaf ears in Kentucky, where the state’s Black attorney general, Daniel Cameron, put on a sham case before a grand jury, announcing that the evidence didn’t support charges against any of the officers involved despite the fact that members of the grand jury later said that Cameron never asked or instructed them on how to return any charges directly related to Taylor’s death. The grand jury did indict former officer Brett Hankison for unloading 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment and others from outside the building, where he couldn’t even see where he was shooting at. He was acquitted in March.

Cameron, a Republican, is now running for governor of the state, where his political affiliation would have made charging Taylor’s killers a liability among conservative voters. That left the pursuit of criminal justice in the case up to the feds. The Justice Department charged Jaynes, Meany, and Goodlett for allegedly lying and Hankison for the shots he fired. Meany was fired by Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Erika Shields on Sunday.

To this day, Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville cop who actually fired Taylor’s kill shot, hasn’t been charged. He was fired in January 2021, a decision that was upheld after he petitioned in department hearings to get his job back.

Taylor died on March 23, 2020, when a barrage of Louisville cops burst into her apartment with a warrant seeking a man she previously dated. Taylor wasn’t a subject of the warrant nor was she still involved with the man who was. Instead, she was asleep along with her then-boyfriend, who also wasn’t a target of the warrant.

Turns out, the man the cops sought was already in police custody. Taylor’s boyfriend, who had a legally purchased gun, fired at the officers believing they were people committing a violent entry into the home; police returned fire, killing Taylor. She was 26 years old.

#justice for Breonna #breonna taylor #plead guilty #cops #the root #black lives matter #say her name

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shits-movin · 2 years

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