Louisville

Newly released documents from the internal investigation by Louisville, Kentucky, police of the shooting death of Breonna Taylor show that even after protests erupted nationwide and the case had been turned over to a special prosecutor, the police department was actively gathering negative information about Taylor’s boyfriend, NBC News reports.

Louisville police have released details of the investigation into the shooting death of Breonna Taylor

In grand jury testimony, officers said police who shot Breonna Taylor announced themselves as law enforcement before entering her apartment. Hours of material in the grand jury proceedings for Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting by police were made public Friday. The release was rare since such material is normally kept secret.

After a night of largely peaceful protests Thursday, Breonna Taylor’s family speaks publicly for the first time since the grand jury announced its findings in Taylor’s case Wednesday.

Bianca Austin, Breonna Taylor’s aunt, reads a statement written by Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer.

Two Louisville police officers are recovering after being shot Wednesday night during downtown protests that erupted after a grand jury’s decision not to charge the officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor. Only one officer was charged with wanton endangerment.

Hours after a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for Breonna Taylor’s death and protesters took to the streets, authorities said two officers were shot and wounded Wednesday night during the demonstrations expressing anger over the killings of Black people at the hands of police.

For months, actors, sports stars, musicians and other celebrities have been using their platforms to call for justice in the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

From the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C., Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday called for peaceful protests after a grand jury in Kentucky declined to charge officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Protesters marched in Louisville, Ky., after a grand jury did not charge three Louisville police officers for Breonna Taylor’s shooting death.

One of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville home in March was charged Wednesday with first-degree wanton endangerment.

When asked about a grand jury’s decision not to charge three officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, President Donald Trump responded with a message of support for the Black community, saying, “My message is that I love the Black community.”

Between meetings on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) briefly commented on the grand jury verdict for the Breonna Taylor case.

A grand jury in Kentucky has indicted a former Louisville officer for wanton endangerment in the March shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Louisville, Kentucky, police are canceling vacations and requests for days off in preparation for an announcement by the state attorney general on whether he plans to charge police officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Louisville, Kentucky’s city council Thursday night approved a “no confidence” resolution against Mayor Greg Fischer, citing his handling of the death of Breonna Taylor and the unrest that followed, NBC News reports.

The city of Louisville agreed to pay Breonna Taylor’s family $12 million and enact police reform, but political consultant Michael Starr Hopkins is pointing out that no admission of fault was mentioned in the agreement and believes that in order to elicit real social change, we need to continue to see similar settlements.

Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday to call for the arrest of the police officers who killed Taylor as she slept in her apartment in March. Taylor’s family settled their civil suit with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday morning, which included police reform stipulations.

The City of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and implement police reforms as part of a settlement to a lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer announced Tuesday.