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The law is not the total ban many protesters and some Democratic lawmakers had sought – a proposal that had been introduced as “Breonna’s Law” – but it also doesn’t prevent individual cities and towns from banning the warrants completely.
“This is meaningful change,” Beshear said. “It will save lives, and it will move us in the right direction. I know more needs to be done. I know the fight is not over.”
Members of the Taylor family stood behind the governor during the bill signing, at Louisville’s Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, shed tears as she accepted the pen the governor used to sign the measure.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. At least one Kentucky police officer connected to the fatal shooting of a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, is fighting a police move to terminate his employment.
An attorney for Louisville Metro Police detective Joshua Jaynes told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his client hasn’t done anything wrong and shouldn’t be disciplined in connection with a police raid in March that led to Taylor’s death. The shooting of the 26-year-old woman in her Louisville home sparked months of protests there amid national protests over racial injustice and police misconduct.
“I’m very troubled by the chief’s actions here, and I hope that we can challenge those proposed actions successfully,” attorney Thomas Clay said.
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