Breonna Taylor
The incident report for the botched police raid that led to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black EMT, said that there was no forced entry when in fact Taylor was killed when officers forced their way into her home on March 13, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Taylor was struck by bullets six times after her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired one shot at officers serving a warrant. Walker later said he believed the officers to be intruders.
A preliminary Louisville Metro Police Department internal report prepared on the raid that led to Taylor's death suggested that officers violated department rules by opening fire, even after an officer was hit.
The officers, the investigator wrote, "took a total of thirty-two shots, when the provided circumstances made it unsafe to take a single shot. This is how the wrong person was shot and killed."
No officers involved in the raid were charged directly in Taylor's death.
One of the officers at the scene, Brett Hankison, is expected to stand trial in 2022 on charges of wanton endangerment for allegedly firing into an adjacent occupied apartment, according to the state attorney general. Hankison, who was fired in June 2020, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Two other detectives connected to the incident, Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes, were fired in January.
