Officers who killed Breonna Taylor should not have fired their weapons, internal investigator finds
By Marisa Iati The Washington Post,Updated May 10, 2021, 9:16 p.m.
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Louisville demonstrators demanded justice for Breonna Taylor on March 13, the first anniversary of the fatal police raid on her apartment.Joshua Lott/The Washington Post
Two Louisville police officers whose shots struck and killed Breonna Taylor never should have fired their weapons, a department investigator found - a conclusion that the forceâs upper brass partly rejected.
While the officers had a right to protect themselves when Taylor s boyfriend fired at them, the circumstances made it unsafe to take a single shot in response, Sgt. Andrew Meyer wrote in a Dec. 4 memo summarizing his investigation.
Courtesy Tamika Palmer
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) Newly released documents from an internal probe into the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor shows two investigators determined that none of the officers involved in serving a 2020 narcotics warrant at the 26-year-old’s apartment should have fired their gun, but the findings were contradicted by senior officials in the Louisville Metro Police Department, according to news media reports.
Sgt. Andrew Meyer of the police department’s Professional Standards Unit determined in a preliminary report dated Dec. 4 that the three officers involved in the March 13, 2020, shooting should have held their fire after Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot one of them, according to the documents obtained by ABC affiliate station WHAS-TV and the Courier Journal newspaper, both in Louisville.
BY ABC News Radio | May 9, 2021
Courtesy Tamika Palmer
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) â Newly released documents from an internal probe into the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor shows two investigators determined that none of the officers involved in serving a 2020 narcotics warrant at the 26-year-old’s apartment should have fired their gun, but the findings were contradicted by senior officials in the Louisville Metro Police Department, according to a new report from two investigators.
Sgt. Andrew Meyer of the police department’s Professional Standards Unit determined in a preliminary report dated Dec. 4 that the three officers involved in the March 13, 2020, shooting should have held their fire after Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot one of them, according to the documents obtained by ABC News.