One point of interest is that the settlement includes reforms to the police department that would have prevented this shooting. I will give credit to the family for demanding these reforms as one of the cornerstones of the settlement -- especially since the reforms seem to be reasonable. City of Louisville agrees to 'substantial' settlement in Breonna Taylor shooting https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ng-city-louisville-settles-family/5801720002/ Louisville's metro government is expected to announce a "substantial" financial settlement Tuesday with the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman fatally shot by police in her apartment six months ago, The Courier Journal has learned. The settlement may be announced as early as 2 p.m., according to a person knowledgeable about the details who said he could not be identified. The source said they couldn't release the amount. In addition to the payment, the deal is expected to include several policing reforms, including a requirement that commanders approve all search warrants before they go to a judge, the person told The Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. The accord will also provide housing credits to officers who agree to live within the city, and it would seek the authority for drug and alcohol testing of officers involved in any shooting. A large settlement in the civil suit brought by Taylor's family comes as a Jefferson County grand jury may screen the criminal case as soon as this week. The grand jury would decide whether criminal charges should be filed against any of the three officers involved in her shooting death March 13 during a search for drugs, cash and other evidence in her South End apartment that went awry. The largest amount the city has paid to date to settle allegations of police misconduct was $8.5 million to Edwin Chandler in 2012, who was wrongfully imprisoned for more than nine years after Detective Mark Handy perjured himself. Taylor, 26, was shot and killed after Louisville Metro Police officers broke down her apartment door March 13 to serve a signed "no-knock"search warrant in connection with a narcotics investigation centered 10 miles away. Police say they knocked and announced their presence, but Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said he and Taylor didn't know who was pounding on the door. When police battered in the door, Walker fired what he later called a warning shot. Police say it struck Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly in the thigh. Mattingly and two other officers — detectives Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove — returned fire. Taylor was hit five times and died in her hallway. Hankison has been fired and while Cosgrove and Mattingly remain on administrative reassignment. The suit was filed April 27 and named the three officers as defendants. It alleges Taylor's life was wrongfully taken, that police used excessive force and the search was grossly negligent. An amended complaint filed about two months later additionally claimed Taylor's death was the result of Louisville police's effort to clear out a block for gentrification, and the newly formed Place-Based Investigations unit consisted of "rogue police" who violated "all levels of policy, protocol and policing standards." City officials vehemently denied the accusations that gentrification played any role in the narcotics investigation. The case picked up steam and media coverage in May when local attorneys for the estate, Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker, were joined by Florida-based attorney Ben Crump. He has represented Black Americans killed in controversial shootings, including Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown Jr. and Tamir Rice. "LMPD has tried to sweep this under the rug," Aguiar said at the time. "The family right now has a very understandable desire to know the full circumstance of what went on that night." Taylor's family alleged in the suit the warrant served at Taylor's apartment was targeted at Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug dealer had been located by police at a drug house 10 miles away before the warrant was served on Taylor's residence. A warrant listed Taylor's name and address, but the main narcotics investigation was centered around Glover and co-defendants' alleged trafficking on Elliott Avenue in Louisville's Russell neighborhood.
Why was Breonna Taylor dating a drug dealer? Why did she allow him to have drugs sent to her apartment? Pure stupidity.
The amount of the financial settlement is 12 million dollars... City to pay $12M to Breonna Taylor’s mom, reform police https://apnews.com/42df1f3ebea59ff20a309b8fe04619df The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race, Mayor Greg Fischer announced Tuesday. Taylor’s death sparked months of protests in Louisville and calls nationwide for the officers to be criminally charged. The state’s attorney general, Daniel Cameron, is investigating police actions in the March 13 fatal shooting. (More at above url)
I think they preferred their daughter was not gunned done by cops who cannot handle a warrant correctly and still alive over the money
The above there is the real crime. The person(s) who got the name and address wrong should be held criminally negligent. Cops were serving the warrant, they thought they were busting down the door of a known drug dealer, they were shot at, return fire, person dies. Wrong house. Sorry, man. Who was the moron that got it 10 miles wrong? The FACK!