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We have a few updates to a story we told you about last month.
As protest continue nationwide over the death of George Floyd, many are protesting over the death of black EMT Breonna Taylor as well.
The FBI has opened an investigation into the shooting of Taylor.
In March Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky just before 1 a.m.
Three officers dressed in plain clothes and not wearing body cameras arrived to execute a search warrant in a drug case.
Taylor and her boyfriend thought someone was breaking in when police kicked down the door.
Walker grabbed his legal firearm and started shooting, hitting one officer in the leg.
Officers returned fire and Taylor was shot at least eight times and killed.
Police say they raided the apartment because another man involved in a drug trafficking ring was using Taylor’s apartment to ship drugs to avoid detection.
But according to a lawsuit filed by Taylor’s mother in February, the suspect police were looking for had already been arrested by other officers executing a warrant at a separate location.
Her mother argued because of that the search warrant should have been called off.
Officials also say police found no drugs in the apartment.
Taylor’s boyfriend was arrested and charged with attempted murder of a police officer and first-degree assault.
The charges have since been dropped.
The Louisville Metro Police Department is now requiring all sworn officers to wear body cameras while they serve warrants and in other situations in which they identify themselves as police officers.
None of the officers involved have been arrested.
Posted – 6.3.20