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Two other Louisiana police officers who were present during a house search that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a black medical assistant shot in March this year, were also fired from the police, Reuters reports.
The news was reported to the press by Investigators Myles Cosgrove and Detectives Joshua Jaynes. It was Cosgrove who fired the shots that killed Taylor, 26. And Jaynes is the police officer who issued the search warrant, which allowed three police officers to break into the apartment where the woman was.
During the search of the house, the police would have been looking for drugs, but the woman’s friend, Kenneth Walker, pulled out a gun (held with permission) during the nighttime surprise raid and began shooting at the police officers. They responded with a total of 32 shots, 6 of which hit Taylor unarmed and finished off the young woman. Walker survived the shooting, in which a police officer was also injured. Yet Taylor’s death this summer, along with that of George Floyde, became a symbolic cause of movements against racism and police violence.
He has been relocating both police officers since the case broke out, but has been able to continue working within the organization, and Jaynes’ attorney has already indicated that they are challenging the chief’s decision.
So far, only the third partner of the two cops, Bratt Hankinson, has been fired from the Louisville Police Department. And he was also charged only by the prosecution for shooting from outside through the patio door and window of Taylor’s apartment, which were covered with curtains, while the police could only fire their guns if they could see their target. However, the accusation was not due to the death of Breonna Taylor, but rather to Hankinson thus endangering the neighbors.
Previously, experts said in the case that police officers were unlikely to be held responsible for Taylor’s death because Taylor’s friend opened fire the first time.
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, was offered $ 12 million in damages to Taylor’s family in September.
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