A black EMT worker was shot and killed as she slept in her home after police officers “blindly fired” after executing a search warrant at the wrong home in Louisville, Kentucky, a lawsuit says.
"We stand with the family of this young woman in demanding answers from the Louisville Police Department," he said in a statement Monday on Twitter.
Records show that the police investigation was centered around a"trap house" more than 10 miles from Taylor's apartment, and that a judge had approved a"no-knock" search warrant, meaning officers did not have to identify themselves, accordingThe lawsuit states that Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep in their bedroom when police in plainclothes and unmarked vehicles arrived at the house looking for a suspect who lived in a different part of the city and...
The lawsuit says Taylor and Walker woke up and thought criminals were breaking in. Walker called 911 and, according to"The defendants then proceeded to spray gunfire into the residence with a total disregard for the value of human life," the lawsuit alleges."Shots were blindly fired by the officers all throughout Breonna's home."
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