The Justice Division on Friday requested a court docket to drop prices in opposition to two former law enforcement officials accused of offering false data on a search warrant that led to the deadly 2020 police raid on the house of Breonna Taylor.
First bringing prices in opposition to the officers in 2022, federal prosecutors alleged that Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany offered false data on the search warrant that allowed police to enter Taylor’s Louisville residence. They have been additionally charged with civil rights violations.
In a submitting Friday, an lawyer with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, mentioned these prices ought to be dropped, and mentioned the division has notified Taylor’s household of the transfer.
On this June 25, 2020, file photograph, indicators are held up exhibiting Breonna Taylor throughout a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky.
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A federal decide had twice struck felony prices in opposition to the 2 officers, decreasing them to misdemeanors, most just lately in 2025.
“The Authorities undertook an extra evaluate of this matter,” based on the submitting. “Primarily based on that evaluate, and within the train of its discretion, the Authorities has decided that this case ought to be dismissed within the curiosity of justice.”
Whether or not the remaining prices are in the end dropped is as much as a decide, who has but to difficulty a ruling.
Taylor was fatally shot within the 2020 raid that got here as plainclothes Louisville officers have been serving a warrant looking for Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, who they alleged was dealing medicine, however who was not on the house.
On this Sept. 18, 2020, file photograph, two ladies maintain an indication of Breonna Taylor throughout a rally in Louisville, Ky.
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Officers broke down the door to Taylor’s house, and her then-current boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who thought somebody was breaking into the house, fired one shot with a handgun, putting an officer within the leg.
Three different officers returned fireplace, taking pictures 32 bullets into the house.
A former Louisville officer, Brett Hankison, was convicted of a civil rights offense in reference to Taylor’s dying through the raid and sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail.
