Authorities said two officers involved in the Bonold raid were fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department, which resulted in the death of Breno Taylor and sparked a summer of protests in some parts, officials said.
Dits. Joshua Janes and Miles Cosgrove learned last week that the department intends to fire them, and that termination became official Tuesday, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Taylor, who has no criminal record, was sleeping with boyfriend Kenneth Waker when plainclothes officers entered her apartment early in the morning of March 13 to issue a no-knock search warrant in a drug case.
Vaker Kar, who had a license to carry a weapon, was attacked and shot by criminals at a house called 911, injuring an officer in the leg.
Police then opened fire and killed the unarmed Taylor. Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Taylor, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in September.
Jens was not in Taylor’s apartment since the shooting began, but hours earlier he had obtained a search warrant that led to a fatal confrontation.
Taylor’s deaths in Louisville and George Floyd while he was in Minneapolis police custody, and an early decision not to prosecute those involved in the murder of Ahmed Arbury near Brunswick, Georgia, sparked a summer of international protests against systemic racism.
Despite outrage over Taylor’s shooting, no criminal charges were demanded in his death.
Instead, the former Louisville police date. Brett Hankison, who was fired in June, was charged with blind shooting in an apartment and recklessly endangering Taylor’s neighbors.
