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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 4, 2022

The U.S. Justice Department today charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers for their roles in the 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, Reuters reports. Former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Detective Joshua Jaynes and current Sergeant Kyle Meany were charged with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice for using false information to obtain the search warrant that authorized the raid. Current Detective Kelly Goodlett was charged with conspiring with Jaynes to falsify the warrant and then cover up the falsification, and former Detective Brett Hankison was charged with civil rights violations for allegedly using excessive force. Taylor, a Black woman, was in killed in her home during a nighttime raid in March 2020 as police looked for her former boyfriend.