It won’t bring her back….
The city of Louisville has reached a $12 million settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed in her own home by plainclothes Louisville police officers in March.
Initial news of the deal came Tuesday morning, just over six months to the day that Taylor was killed. The New York Times and the Courier Journal first reported the specific amount of the settlement, which was already thought to be a multi-million deal.
The deal is the largest settlement that the city has paid in a police misconduct case, shattering the previous top figure of $8.5 million, according to the Courier Journal….
Grand Jury indicts the cop who shot Taylor….
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Ex-officer Brett Hankison is charged with wanton endangerment in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Two other police officers were not indicted. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/2FU56Nh
Two Louisville, Kentucky, police officers were shot Wednesday night in the city’s downtown amid massive protests after a grand jury did not indict cops in the killing of Breonna Taylor…
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Celebrities including “Schitt’s Creek” creator and star Dan Levy, actor George Clooney, rapper Common and actress Viola Davis spoke out Wednesday over the grand jury decision in the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
Levy, whose hit show won nine Emmy’s this week, wrote in a tweet that he was “Disgusted. Enraged. Heartbroken,” over a Kentucky grand jury’s decision to only indict one of three cops involved in the March 13 shooting of Taylor, 26, on charges of wanton endangerment that did not stem from her death but the fact that shots he fired hit a neighbor’s apartment…
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There is a suspect in custody….