#breonnataylor — Public Fediverse posts
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Breonna Taylor shooting: charges dismissed against ex-police officers for falsifying warrant https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/breonna-taylor-shooting-officer-warrant-charges-dismissed #BreonnaTaylor #UsCrime #UsNews #UsPolicing #Louisville #Kentucky
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"DOJ ASKS JUDGE TO DROP CHARGES AGAINST TWO COPS INVOLVED IN BREONNA TAYLOR’S KILLING
The men were not present at the fatal raid but have been accused of covering up how it happened.
The Department of Justice wants a federal judge to drop the remaining charges against two police officers who were involved in the fatal raid that left Breonna Taylor dead in 2020, The New York Times reports. Harmeet K. Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, signed the motion, filed in the Western District of Kentucky on Friday asking for leniency for former Sgt. Kyle Meany and former Detective Joshua Jaynes, neither of whom were present at the raid. CBS News reports that the dismissal request was 'with prejudice,' which means it could be revived later.
Meany was charged with making false statements during an FBI interview. Jaynes had been charged with conspiracy and falsifying records. The DOJ previously alleged that the men deprived Taylor of her right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure, according to CBS News.
Dhillon’s motion said that the DOJ believes the charges should be dropped 'in the interest of justice' as it now views the charges as 'weaponized federal outreach' by the Biden administration, per The New York Times. Merrick Garland, who was attorney general in the Biden years, had charged Meany and Jaynes along with other members of the Louisville Metro Police for setting up the course of action that led to Taylor’s death, as part of a ham-fisted search for a drug dealer."
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Oh hell no
#Trump #DOJ Seeks to Drop Charges Against #Police Officers in #Shooting Death of #BreonnaTaylor
The #CivilRights charges against the 2 #Louisville, #Kentucky, police officers stemmed from their involvement in falsifying the no-knock search warrant that led to her fatal shooting.
#law #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #fraud #BLM
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/breonna-taylor-officer-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
BREAKING: Trump DOJ seeking to drop all remaining charges against cops who executed Breonna Taylor in March 2020.
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Six years after Breonna Taylor’s death, America is weakening the rules that could have saved her | Jamil Smith https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/breonna-taylor-no-knock-warrants #BreonnaTaylor #UsNews #UsPolicing #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #Race #Kentucky
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#ACAB #Louisville #BreonnaTaylor
"Federal judge dismisses Louisville police reform agreement spurred by Breonna Taylor’s death
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the department withdrew its support of the plan earlier this year.
The Justice Department announced in May it was canceling proposed consent decrees with Louisville and Minneapolis that sought to curb police racial bias and abuses after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that spurred nationwide protests in the summer of 2020.
U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton wrote in a Dec. 31 ruling that 'the responsibility to lead the Louisville Metro Police Department in compliance with federal law must remain with the city’s elected representatives and the people they serve.'
A judge in May dismissed Minneapolis’ proposed consent decree, which places a federal officer in charge of tracking the progress of reforms laid out in the agreement."
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At the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Jasmine Crockett delivers an emotional and unflinching statement honoring Breonna Taylor’s legacy — and confronting a nation still struggling to value Black lives and protect them.
Crockett reflects on marching in the streets in 2020, the fight...
#BreonnaTaylor #JasmineCrockett #BreonnasLaw #NoKnockWarrants #JusticeReform #CriminalJusticeReform #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter #Congress #CivilRights #PoliceReform #PressConference
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#Racism #Bigotry #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #AmericanHistory #SayTheirNames #TreyvonMartin #PhilandoCastile #GeorgeFloyd #SandraBland #TamirRice #EricGarner #BreonnaTaylor #DaunteWright #AndreHill #ManuelEllis #AtatianaJefferson #AuraRosser #StephonClark #BothamJean #AltonSterling
Fuck, there are just too many names...
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The US cities left behind as Trump ends key police accountability reforms https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/trump-ends-police-reform-consent-decrees #Trumpadministration #BreonnaTaylor #DonaldTrump #USpolicing #Louisville #Kentucky #USnews #Race
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Judge Sentences Ex-Officer in #BreonnaTaylor Raid to Nearly 3 Years in Prison
The sentence was a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, which had requested he serve only 1 day behind bars.
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Ex-officer sentenced to nearly three years for role in Breonna Taylor’s killing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/breonna-taylor-death-ex-kentucky-officer-sentenced #BreonnaTaylor #Kentucky #USnews
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A federal judge Monday sentenced a fmr #Louisville, #Kentucky #police officer to nearly 3 yrs in #prison for using #ExcessiveForce during the deadly #BreonnaTaylor raid 5 yrs ago, rebuffing a #Trump #DOJ recommendation of no prison time.
Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid but didn’t hit anyone, was the only officer charged in the Black woman’s death in 2020. He is the 1st person sentenced to prison in the case.#law #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #PoliceBrutality
https://apnews.com/article/breonna-taylor-raid-hankison-sentence-4da93877da13f506be42cc1c738cab2b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-21-Breaking+News -
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice recommended that a former police detective convicted of excessive force in the case of Breonna Taylor should serve a single day in prison. The judge in the case disagreed, and today sentenced former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison to 33 months in jail. Here's more from NBC.
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#BBCNews - Officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid gets 33-month sentence
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvjwrm29wpo
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Fall #BreonnaTaylor: US-Ministerium will nur einen Tag Haft für verurteilten Polizisten – #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Polizeigewalt
Wegen Schüssen auf die schwarze US-Amerikanerin Breonna Taylor droht einem verurteilten Polizisten lebenslange Haft. Doch das US-Justizministerium fordert nur einen Tag. Taylor wurde bei dem Polizeieinsatz getötet. Hankison war nach dem Tod Taylors wegen Verstößen gegen die Bürgerrechte von Taylor im November 2024 schuldig gesprochen worden
https://dokmz.com/2025/07/19/fall-breonnataylor-us-ministerium-will-nur-einen-tag-haft-fur-verurteilten-polizisten-blacklivesmatter-blm-polizeigewalt/ -
DOJ seeks one-day prison sentence in Breonna Taylor case #breonnataylor #DOJ #prisonsentence #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4VGcqOLqzE
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They say raid, I say murder.
'New DOJ memo requests 1-day sentence for Brett Hankison, officer in Breonna Taylor raid.'
https://archive.ph/fJqA6
Stephanie Kuzydym and Lucas Aulbach
Louisville Courier Journal
Updated July 17, 2025
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"DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor
In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot.
The Justice Department requested that a Louisville police officer convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s death serve one day in prison.
The federal government suggested in an unusual sentencing memo late Wednesday night to a judge that the Biden administration should not have prosecuted the officer on the civil rights charges on which he was convicted.
Breaking with standard protocol, the memo was not signed by any career prosecutors but by Robert J. Keenan, a senior counsel to the civil rights division who was not part of the original prosecution team, and Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the division who was appointed under the Trump administration.In November, a federal jury found Brett Hankison, the Louisville police officer, guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot, becoming the first officer directly involved in the case to be convicted on criminal charges.
Hankison faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, and a judge will consider the government’s request and determine a sentence." -
DOJ seeks single-day sentence for officer who violated Breonna Taylor’s civil rights https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/doj-one-day-sentence-officer-breonna-taylor #BlackLivesMattermovement #BreonnaTaylor #Kentucky #USnews #Race
