Attorneys for Breonna Taylor's family allege that police targeted her residence as part of a Louisvi
Attorneys for the family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who was killed by police at her home in Louisville, Kentucky, is alleging that officers were acting as part of a larger gentrification plan that targeted residents in the area.
In a criminal complaint filed in Jefferson Circuit Court last week published by Louisville CBS affiliate WLKY, the lawyers for Taylor's family alleged that a plan to revamp the city's Russell neighborhood was responsible for "radical political and police conduct" that resulted in Taylor's death during a narcotics raid.
Three Louisville Metro Police Department officers — Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove — entered the apartment in the early hours of March 13 with a "no-knock warrant." The warrant was connected to a suspect who did not live at Taylor's apartment, and no drugs were found at the residence. Taylor's family later filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
A complaint filed late last month by attorneys representing Taylor's family said that Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired one round in self-defense while officers raided the apartment and Taylor "was shot at least eight times by the officers' gunfire and died as a result," even though she "had posed no threat to the officers and did nothing to deserve to die at their hands."
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