DOJ files civil rights charges against four Louisville officers over Breonna Taylor killing
The Justice Department on Thursday charged four Louisville police officers with federal civil rights violations over the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor, alleging they falsified documents in seeking a search warrant of her home.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges at a press conference Thursday, saying the officers knowingly misrepresented that a target of a law enforcement drug investigation had been receiving packages of drugs at Taylor’s home.
“The federal charges announced today allege that members of the Place Based Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms. Taylor’s home, that this act violated federal civil rights laws and that those violations resulted in Ms. Taylor’s death,” Garland said.
“As outlined in the charging documents, the officers who ultimately carried out the search at Ms. Taylor’s department were not involved in the drafting of the warrant, and were unaware of the false and misleading statements it contained,” the attorney general added.
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