DOJ charges 4 current, former police officers in connection with raid that killed Breonna Taylor
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Source: ABC
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 officer Joshua Jaynes, former Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett and officer Kyle Meany allege that they violated Taylor's 4th 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 contained false and misleading information and omitted other material information, resulting in her death. Goodlett and Jaynes have been charged with conspiracy for allegedly falsifying the affidavit for a search warrant, according to the justice department.
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."
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The FBI arrested Joshua Jaynes on Thursday morning and charged him with federal civil rights violations.
The FBI has arrested and charged Joshua Jaynes, the former Louisville Metro Police Department detective who lied on the search warrant application that let officers raid Breonna Taylor's home. The disastrous "no-knock" warrant in March 2020 ended up with Taylor dead.
WAVE3 reported that Jaynes was arrested early Thursday morning and is charged with federal civil rights violations.
Jaynes wrote in the search warrant that he "verified with a U.S. Postal Inspector" that Taylor's ex, whom police suspected of dealing drugs, had been receiving mail at her address. However, an internal investigation found that Jaynes had not verified the information with a postal worker himself, but rather relied on another officer's false word.
In fact, the officer with whom Jaynes spoke, Jonathan Mattingly, was not in contact with a postal inspector either. Mattingly only ever got the information from a different police department. The investigation found not only that Jaynes lied about his verification efforts, but that there were never any relevant packages arriving at Taylor's home.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-charges-former-louisville-cop-joshua-jaynes-who-lied-on-search-warrant-for-breonna-taylor-raid
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The good news? He's such a clumsy, ham-handed clod that once his trail is discovered, it should be easy to track. The bad news? When you find just what he's clumsily lodged in some legalistic cranny or bureaucratic nook, it may be irremovable. I suspect it's all, like stolen bank money, dyed. The color of the dye should reveal the identity of the culprit, federalist blue blood.
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Posted by Rocknation: "Breonna's family...are now $12M richer from the settlement they accepted...This could be Mattingly's way of getting a slice -- that is, maybe his ulterior motive is to get them to come up with some 'quick cash' just to make the lawsuit 'go away!'"
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