One of the grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case told CBS’s Gayle King that he believes actions Louisville Police took the night Taylor was killed were “criminal.” The juror said the events surrounding Taylor’s death were full of “deception.” Another juror previously spoke out after ex-officer Brett Hankison was […]

Peaceful demonstrators marched to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s house on Saturday, marking the 150th day of protests for Breonna Taylor, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Around 100 protesters rallied without any arrests, despite an encounter with officers in riot gear. “The more that comes out with the case, the […]

A Kentucky judge on Tuesday ordered the release of grand jury records in the case of Breonna Taylor so the public can see if “elected officials are being honest.” Last month, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron claimed that grand jurors agreed with his office that officers “were justified” in opening […]

Former Louisville officer Brett Hankison told a grand jury he thought officers were being fired at by someone in Breonna Taylor’s apartment with an AR-15 at the time he fired back. Hankison, who was fired, is the only officer who faces charges related to the night of Breonna Taylor’s killing. […]

Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general, said he will release recordings of the grand jury proceedings into the death of Breonna Taylor, where no officers were charged over her death. Grand juries usually act in secret. Cameron had previously refused to release the recordings from this one. But he said on […]

A Kentucky State Police report couldn’t prove if a bullet that struck a Lousiville Metro Police Department officer during a raid came from Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend’s, Kenneth Walker, gun. Walker admitted to firing a warning shot, after which officers unloaded more than 30 bullets into Taylor’s apartment, killing Taylor in […]

Bodycam footage and investigation files obtained by VICE News show some of the Louisville Metro Police Department officers who fired shots during the drug raid that killed Breonna Taylor violating departmental rules. The footage shows three involved officers wandering the scene unescorted, violating a departmental policy that requires involved officers […]

Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, said she “never had faith” in Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to “do his job” in weighing charges for police officers involved in Taylor’s killing. At a press conference on Friday, Taylor’s family and their attorneys slammed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron after none of […]

In the wake of Breonna Taylor’s death, Louisville banned its police department from conducting no-knock raids. But most cities and states nationwide still allow no-knock or knock-and-announce searches. Experts have estimated that police carry out 20,000 no-knock raids across the US each year. There’s no nationwide database that tracks them […]

A grand jury indicted only one of the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Brett Hankinson was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. The charges are not for killing Taylor but for shots that could have injured neighbours. Legal experts told us that the charge […]

At least two Louisville Metro Police Department officers were shot Wednesday night, interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder confirmed to reporters. At approximately 8:30 p.m., authorities were called to downtown Louisville to respond to a shooting, Schroeder said during a news conference. Two officers were shot and sustained non-life-threatening injuries in […]

One officer involved in the police shooting of Breonna Taylor will face criminal charges and two will not, a grand jury announced on Wednesday. Former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for shooting into her neighbour’s apartment. Neither Sgt. Jonathan […]

A grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, indicted former police officer Brett Hankison on three counts of first-degree “wanton endangerment.” The charges are only for shooting into a neighbouring apartment, not for shooting Breonna Taylor in her own, as the Louisville Courier-Journal first reported. The grand jury decided against charging Hankison […]

Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, sent a long email to his coworkers at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday in which he called protesters “thugs.” The Vice News correspondent Roberto Aram Ferdman shared the email, which was sent to about […]

Federal buildings in Louisville, Kentucky are set to close from September 21-25 amid the decision of Breonna Taylor’s case, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. A judge signed the order on Friday in response to a request from the General Services Administration, which sought to close several buildings in the city to […]

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has settled the lawsuit brought by the family of Breonna Taylor, the Black woman killed by the police there in March. It’s paying her family $US12 million. In addition to the payment, the settlement includes significant police reforms, such as a mandate that all search […]

Vice News reports that five police officers who were part of the search on Breonna Taylor’s apartment were all part of a 2018 raid in West Louisville, at the home of Mario Daugherty, his girlfriend, Ashlea Burr, and their teenaged daughters. Four of the officers involved had conducted the search […]