Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said the shots were fired from within the crowd, not from the police. Seven people were shot downtown overnight May 28. Protests In Louisville turned violent, with gunfire erupting during protests. CNN covered the story for the first time on May 13, 2020, about two weeks before Floyd died.īy the end of May, Walker’s distressed 911 call from the night Taylor died had been released, and Floyd had died days earlier at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Taylor’s death at first went largely unnoticed outside Louisville. No drugs were found in the apartment, and Taylor’s family and their attorney have maintained she was not involved in her ex-boyfriend’s alleged drug deals. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has said they were justified in shooting in self-defense, because Taylor’s boyfriend fired first. The two other officers who fired shots, Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, were not indicted by the state or the federal government.
Hankison was fired from the police department in late June 2020. None of the police officers at the raid were wearing body cameras, and there is no video of the night Taylor bled to death in her hallway. Jonathan Mattingly was shot in the leg - but prosecutors later decided to drop the charges. Walker was at first charged with attempted murder of a police officer and first-degree assault - Sgt. His bullets entered a neighboring apartment, where a pregnant woman, a man and a child were home, according to the state attorney general. Hankison had been standing outside the apartment and is accused of blindly firing through a door and a window. “Somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend,” Walker said in a 911 call. Taylor, who was standing in a hallway with Walker, was shot multiple times. That triggered a volley of fire from the officers. Thinking they were intruders, Walker grabbed a gun he legally owned and fired a shot when the officers broke through the door. Taylor and Walker yelled to ask who was at the door but got no response, Walker said afterward.
Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, when the officers announced their presence and then battered down the front door. In the early hours of March 13, Hankison and other officers executed a warrant at Taylor’s apartment. One of those locations was Taylor’s residence. On March 12, 2020, a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge approved five search warrants for locations linked to Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, a convicted felon suspected of supplying a local drug house. Here’s a look at the raid, Taylor’s death and its aftermath. The death of 26-year-old Taylor, an emergency room technician, along with that of George Floyd and others, sparked nationwide protests in 2020, leading to changes in policing policy and laws.
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