The Justice Division on Friday requested a court docket to drop costs towards two former cops accused of offering false info on a search warrant that led to the deadly 2020 police raid on the condominium of Breonna Taylor.
First bringing costs towards the officers in 2022, federal prosecutors alleged that Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany offered false info on the search warrant that allowed police to enter Taylor’s Louisville residence. They have been additionally charged with civil rights violations.
In a filing Friday, an lawyer with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, stated these costs must 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 towards the 2 officers, decreasing them to misdemeanors, most just lately in 2025.
“The Authorities undertook an extra evaluation of this matter,” based on the submitting. “Primarily based on that evaluation, and within the train of its discretion, the Authorities has decided that this case must 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 situation a ruling.
Taylor was fatally shot within the 2020 raid that got here as plainclothes Louisville officers have been serving a warrant trying to find Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, who they alleged was dealing medication, however who was not on the condominium.
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 condominium, 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 hearth, taking pictures 32 bullets into the condominium.
A former Louisville officer, Brett Hankison, was convicted of a civil rights offense in reference to Taylor’s demise through the raid and sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail.
