Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor's mother, and Kenny Walker, her boyfriend, joined Jada Pinkett Smith on her show "Red Table Talk" to discuss the night she was killed by police and the aftermath.
Kelly Goodlett faces up to five years in federal prison, and is assumed to be cooperating with federal prosecutors in the cases against other officers involved in the fatal raid on the EMT's apartment.
Former Louisville officers Joshua Jaynes and Brett Hankison, along with current officers Kelly Goodlett and Sgt. Kyle Meany have been hit with federal civil rights charges for the deadly raid that took Breonna Taylor's life in 2020.
The family of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by Louisville police in a botched, no-knock raid on the wrong apartment, expressed discontent with the recent acquittal of the one cop charged in the case.
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was acquitted by a jury of wanton endangerment for his role in a botched police raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
The only officer involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment to face charges testified in his own defense at his trial for wanton endangerment.
Former officer Brett Hankison fired 10 shots near a door during the raid at Breonna Taylor's residence and shot into the neighboring apartment where a family lived.
Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a raid by Louisville police in 2020, has become a powerful symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement and the push for police reform.
Breonna Taylor's mother said she still feels “anger” about “the way this whole thing happened, anger that it was so avoidable, and anger that she lost her life for it.”
“My eyes went straight to the barrel of his gun,” Sgt. Jason Mattingly, who was shot once by Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, during the deadly police raid, told "Good Morning America."
An anonymous grand juror from the Breonna Taylor case has taken issue with the way Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron characterized their charging decision against Louisville police officers involved in her death.
Violence and gunfire erupted on the streets of Louisville — including two police officers being shot — after a grand jury decision not to charge any officers with Breonna Taylor's death.
Officer Brent Hankinson, who was fired from the Louisville Police Department following Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting in March, has been charged with three counts of wanton endangerment, but some activists say that's not enough.
“We must not lose focus on what the real job is, and with that being said, it’s time to move forward with the criminal charges, because she deserves that and much more,” Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, said.