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		</div><h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Family of Kentucky woman is suing Louisville Metro Police Department launched botched raid on home of Breonna Taylor, 26, in March</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Cops got warrant to conduct botched raid that led to fatal shooting of sleeping black EMT by &#8216;giving a judge false information that dealers were using the house to stash cash and drugs&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Officers executed &#8216;no-knock&#8217; raid on her home just before 1am on March 13, Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Walker, who was licensed to carry gun, shot at cops, thinking they were burglars and one of the three officers who raided the home was hit in the leg</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Cops then returned fire, shooting at 25 rounds, killing Taylor who was shot at least 8 times</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Kenneth Walker was arrested and charged with attempted murder, but his attorney argues it was self-defense</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">Raid was launched based on search warrant that was approved by a judge that cited detective claim that drug dealer used home to receive packages</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #4a3838;">The suspect in the case, Jamarcus Glover, lived 10 miles away, a postal inspector said that no suspicious packages were ever sent to home and the LMPD made no inquiries</span></h6>
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<strong>The search warrant used to justify the police raid which left Breonna Taylor [left], dead on March 13, her family says was obtained because police provided the judge with false information</strong></span></h6>
<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A search warrant obtained on a false premise and led to police shooting and killing an innocent home owner asleep in her own bed during an early morning hours raid in Kentucky is now raising questions from the victim&#8217;s family and the same police department.</span></div>
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<p>In the early morning hours of March 13, Louisville police executed a ‘no-knock’ raid on her home as part of an investigation centered on two men suspected of selling drugs in the Russell section of the city, went to the falsely identified address , started a gunfight and wound up killing the black EMT who owned the home.<br />
Attorneys for the family of the victim, Breonna Taylor filed a lawsuit against Louisville Metro Police Department alleging that a detective falsely claimed that a drug suspect was receiving postal packages at her house.</p>
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<p>The fatal shooting of 26-year-old Taylor by police during a botched drug raid in March has sparked national outrage. Her family says that Louisville police obtained the warrant based on false information that investigators gave to the judge.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-346323" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Kenneth-Walker-1.jpg" alt="Kenneth Walker 1" width="789" height="731" />Taylor was in bed in her home that night with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker [photo]. Walker who was licensed to carry a firearm, fired his gun thinking that they being burglarized. He was arrested and charged with attempted murder of a police officer</span></strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">On the night she was killed, Taylor was in bed in her home with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.<br />
According to the family, Walker, who was licensed to carry a firearm, fired his gun thinking that the couple was being burglarized. He hit a police officer in the leg. Taylor was killed in the hail of gunfire unleashed by the raiding team.<br />
He was arrested and charged with attempted murder of a police officer.</span></div>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-346320" style="color: var(--color-text);" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Jamarcus-Glover-1.jpg" alt="Jamarcus Glover 1" width="634" height="821" /><br />
<strong style="color: var(--color-text);">Police claimed that Taylor&#8217;s home was used by a suspected drug dealer, Jamarcus Glover [photo], to receive suspicious packages. The suspect lived 10 miles away from Taylor. The postal dept insist they never delivered suspicious packages to Taylor&#8217;s address. Police never inquired from them, either</strong></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-346325" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Breonna-Taylor-2.jpg" alt="Breonna Taylor 2" width="634" height="793" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> Breonna Taylor was shot eight times on March 13 by officers of Louisville PD. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has called for an outside review into the killing of Taylor, the black EMT slain by police during a botched drug raid two months ago which has sparked national outrage.</span></strong></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Taylor’s apartment in southwest Jefferson County was more than 10 miles away from the Russell neighborhood, according to the </span><a class="class" href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/16/breonna-taylor-attorneys-say-police-supplied-false-information/5205334002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Louisville Courier Journal. </a></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Police suspected Taylor’s home was used to receive drugs, and a judge signed off on a ‘no-knock’ warrant allowing law enforcement officials to raid her home.<br />
Just before 1am, Louisville police said they identified themselves before using a battering ram to enter Taylor’s home, where she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in bed.<br />
Taylor’s neighbors and her family dispute this.<br />
Police never identified themselves and Walker, who was legally allowed to carry a firearm, shot at the cops thinking that he was being robbed, they said.<br />
Police responded with gunfire, killing Taylor, who suffered eight gunshot wounds. A member of the raiding party, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, was hit in the leg.<br />
Walker was arrested and charged with first-degree assault and attempted murder of a police officer after Sgt. Mattingly was injury the raid.<br />
Mattingly, Officer Brett Hankison, and Officer Myles Cosgrove were the three detectives who raided Taylor&#8217;s home.</p>
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<strong>During the ill-fated raid officers fired at least 20 rounds during the raid. In the photo a hole is seen after a bullet went through a piece of furniture in Taylor&#8217;s home</strong></span></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-346337" style="color: var(--color-text);" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Breonna-Taylor-window-1.jpg" alt="Breonna Taylor window 1" width="1148" height="659" /><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">In this photo, a</span></strong><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"> bullet hole is seen in the shattered glass window after the raid on Taylor&#8217;s apartment in southwest Jefferson County on March 3</strong></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Hankison is named in a separate federal lawsuit filed by a Louisville resident, Kendrick Wilson, who alleges that the officer harassed suspects with unnecessary arrests and even planted drugs, according to the </span><a class="class" href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/05/18/federal-lawsuit-calls-officer-breonna-taylor-shooting-dirty-cop/5210355002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Courier Journal</a><span style="color: var(--color-text);">.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">All three officers are named as defendants in the lawsuit filed by Taylor&#8217;s family.<br />
Taylor had no criminal record and worked for two local hospitals. The lawsuit alleges that police fired at least 20 rounds into the home.<br />
The warrant which was approved by a judge the day before Taylor died was based on a detective’s belief that one of the drug suspects in Russell, Jamarcus Glover, used Taylor’s residence to receive mail, keep drugs, or stash money from the sale of drugs.<br />
Glover was arrested in a separate raid that same night more than 10 miles away from Taylor’s home.<br />
A Louisville detective wrote in an affidavit that he saw Glover leave Taylor’s apartment two months before the raid with a United States Postal Service package which he then transported to a ‘known drug house,’ according to the Courier Journal.</p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-346333" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sgt.-Jonathan-Mattingly-left-and-Officers-Brett-Hankison-center-and-Myles-Cosgrove-right-1.jpg" alt="Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly (left) and Officers Brett Hankison (center) and Myles Cosgrove (right) 1" width="1001" height="592" /><strong>The three officers in the case &#8211; [L-R], Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly stands next to Officers Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove &#8211; The three officers have been placed on administrative leave, but no one has been charged</strong></span></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The detective wrote that he verified the information ‘through a US Postal Inspector.’</span></p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">But the inspector, Tony Gooden, told <a class="class" href="https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/louisville-postal-inspector-no-packages-of-interest-at-slain-emt-breonna-taylor-s-home/article_f25bbc06-96e4-11ea-9371-97b341bd2866.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">WDRB-TV</a> that he was never asked by the Louisville Metro Police about any suspicious packages being sent to Taylor’s apartment.<br />
Gooden said a different law enforcement agency asked his office in January to investigate whether any suspicious mail was going to Taylor’s resident.<br />
After looking into the request, Gooden said his office found there was nothing suspicious linked to Taylor’s home.<br />
‘There&#8217;s no packages of interest going there,’ Gooden said.<br />
Benjamin Crump, a Florida-based lawyer who specializes in high-profile cases involving police shootings of African Americans, said that Gooden’s statement ‘directly contradicts what the police stated in the affidavit to secure a no-knock warrant for her home.’<br />
‘Gooden further stated that “no packages of interest were going there”,’ Crump said.<br />
Crump who is now part of a team of lawyers representing Taylor’s family added ‘We will continue to demand transparency from the Louisville police on behalf of Breonna&#8217;s family.’</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-346330" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Breonna-Taylor-3.jpg" alt="Breonna Taylor 3" width="996" height="758" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);">The police involved fatal shooting of Breonna </strong></span><strong style="color: var(--color-text);">Taylor in her own bed sparked outrage nationwide. Her family is suing the city of Louisville and its police department for wrongful death</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">‘No-knock’ warrants are a controversial practice that allows law enforcement officials to raid a suspect’s home without identifying themselves or notifying the suspect beforehand.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Supporters of the practice say that it prevents suspects from destroying evidence during the time that authorities use to identify themselves, but opponents say that it poses various dangers.<br />
No-knock raids have resulted in officers being shot because residents who are legally permitted to carry firearms believed they were being burglarized.<br />
Houston police stopped the practice of no-knock raids last year after two civilians were killed and four officers were shot during a drug raid that was launched based on faulty information.<br />
Several states, including Kentucky, have ‘stand your ground’ laws that allow the use of lethal force in case they fell victim to crimes such as assault, rape, and burglary.<br />
The death of the 26-year-old emergency medical technician sparked a national uproar and calls for federal intervention.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Louisville officials have now asked the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to review the police department&#8217;s internal investigation of the killing of Taylor.<br />
</span>Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad announced their request for additional federal help on Thursday. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear also called for an outside review into the killing of Taylor. The results would be forwarded along with the findings of the police integrity unit to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron,, they said.<br />
&#8216;My priority is always that the truth comes out,&#8217; the mayor said. &#8216;We can be transparent with the people of our city. And we can and we must also talk about the relationship between our police and our communities of color: past, present and future.&#8217;</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-346329" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Greg-Fischer-left-and-Steve-Conrad-right-1.jpg" alt="Greg Fischer (left) and Steve Conrad [right] 1" width="674" height="374" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Changing tides: Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer (left) and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad announced their request for additional federal help on Thursday. They said the results would be forwarded to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron </span></strong></h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The police review is going to the state&#8217;s attorney general since the county&#8217;s prosecutor, Thomas Wine, recused himself from the case, a statement by the mayor&#8217;s office said.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Wine also asked state officials to appoint a special prosecutor for the case on Wednesday to avoid a conflict of interest since he is prosecuting Taylor&#8217;s boyfriend, Walker, for the shooting of the officer.<br />
Taylor&#8217;s family has hired Crump, the prominent civil rights lawyer who also represents the family of Ahmaud Arbery, the black jogger who was shot dead in Georgia in February. On Wednesday Crump called Taylor&#8217;s death an execution.<br />
&#8216;You can&#8217;t walk while black. With Ahmaud, you can&#8217;t jog while black. Driving while black. But Breonna Taylor was sleeping while black in the sanctity of her own home,&#8217; Crump said during a news conference.<br />
A lawyer for Walker said he fired in self-defense because the officers did not announce themselves, a point disputed by Louisville police.<br />
&#8216;One reason the news of this case hits people so hard is because it reopens old wounds &#8211; the history of racism and the mistreatment of people of color in our community,&#8217; said Fischer.<br />
She &#8216;had posed no threat to the officers and did nothing to deserve to die at their hands&#8217;, the lawsuit says. &#8216;More than 25 bullets hit objects in the home’s living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, hallway, both bedrooms in Taylor and Walker&#8217;s apartment and into the adjacent home, where a five-year-old child and pregnant mother lived,&#8217; the lawsuit states.<br />
An online <a class="class" href="https://www.standwithbre.com/#petition" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">petition</a> called #StandWithBre seeking to arrest and charge the police officers involved in the shooting, terminate them, and pursue charges has gained over 171,000 signatures.<br />
Mayor Fischer said in a statement Tuesday: &#8216;Police work can involve incredibly difficult situations. Additionally, residents have rights. These two concepts will and must be weighed by our justice system as the case proceeds.&#8217;</p>
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Family wants answers in case of black EMT killed by cops in own home – Warrant to conduct botched raid that led to fatal shooting of sleeping home owner was obtained by ‘giving a judge false information’
