Four current and former Louisville police officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s home have been arrested and federally charged.
Four current and former Louisville police officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's home -- including detectives who worked on the search warrant and the ex-officer accused of firing blindly into her home -- have been charged with civil rights violations and other counts, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.
The charges mark the first federal counts leveled against any of the officers involved in the botched raid. In addition to civil rights offenses, federal authorities charged the four with unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction, Garland said. Taylor's mom, Tamika Palmer, said she's waited 874 days for federal charges to be filed and has beaten"everything sent to break" her.
Everything you need to know about the Breonna Taylor case 03:34Jaynes and Meany stand accused of willfully depriving Taylor of her constitutional rights by drafting and approving a false affidavit to obtain a search warrant, while knowing"the affidavit contained false and misleading statements, omitted material facts, relied on stale information, and was not supported by probable cause," the DOJ statement said.
'You have to grieve and fight at the same time': Ben Crump 14:28Following his termination, Jaynes' attorney, Thomas Clay, said the move was not unexpected and promised to fight to have his client reinstated. "It's our position that he did nothing wrong in any of the activities relating to this search," Clay told CNN in January 2021.
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