LMPD releases disciplinary records for Breonna Taylor cops. Large parts are blacked out [View all]

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Tessa Duvall
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Five months ago, I requested the complete PIU/PSU investigative files for the three officers who fired their weapons at Breonna Taylor's apartment.

LMPD twice missed their own deadlines in turning it over.

Then late last week, I got... this.

https://courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/10/19/breonna-taylor-case-what-louisville-cops-disciplinary-records-say/3677041001/…
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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/10/19/breonna-taylor-case-what-louisville-cops-disciplinary-records-say/3677041001/

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After five months and two delays, the Louisville Metro Police Department has released more records into the disciplinary backgrounds of the three officers who fired their weapons at Breonna Taylor's apartment March 13.

But some of the records are so heavily redacted that the incidents they describe are virtually indecipherable.

On May 15, The Courier Journal requested the complete investigative files for any previous internal and criminal investigations concerning Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove and now-former Detective Brett Hankison.

The three officers fired 32 rounds the night Taylor died in her apartment during a drug raid that went awry. Six of those rounds hit the unarmed 26-year-old Black woman, killing her in her hallway.

On Thursday, 153 days after the initial request for the three officers' files, The Courier Journal received the records — more than 1,600 pages in all.

But more than 150 of those pages were heavily redacted, covered by large black rectangles.

LMPD said the law allows redactions for "the non-disclosure of preliminary records that express opinions and not a final decision."

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