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It’s a about damn time!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-announces-charges-connection-raid-killed-breonna-taylor/story?id=87926113

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that the Department of Justice has filed charges against four former and current Louisville police officers in connection with the death of Breonna Taylor. The charges include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses.

"The federal charges announced today allege that members of a Police Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms. Taylor's home and that this act violated federal civil rights laws, and that those violations resulted in Ms. Taylor's death," Garland said in a news conference.

The federal charges against detective Joshua Jaynes, former Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett and sergeant Kyle Meany allege they violated Taylor's Fourth Amendment rights when they sought a warrant to search Taylor's home while knowing they lacked probable cause, and that they knew their affidavit supporting the warrant contained false and misleading information and omitted other material information, resulting in her death

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Pigs are finally going to squeal and come clean

Reuters: Former Louisville officer to plead guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up

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Aug 23 (Reuters) - A former Louisville detective is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to helping to falsify a search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose death fueled a wave of protests over police violence against people of color.

The former officer, Kelly Goodlett, is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings in a federal court in Louisville, Kentucky. She is expected to be arraigned and to enter her plea.

 

Goodlett was one of four former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department detectives charged by the U.S. Justice Department on Aug. 4 for their involvement in the 2020 raid that killed Taylor in her home.

The charges represented the Justice Department's latest attempt to crack down on abuses and racial disparities in policing, following a series of high-profile police killings of Black Americans across the country.

 

The killing of Taylor, along with other 2020 killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, among others, sparked outrage and galvanized protests that peaked in intensity during that summer.

Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was asleep with her boyfriend on March 13, 2020 when police conducted a no-knock raid and burst into her apartment. Taylor's boyfriend fired once at what he said he believed were intruders. Three police officers responded with 32 shots, six of which struck Taylor, killing her.

 

Goodlett and a fellow former officer, Joshua Jaynes, met days after the shooting in a garage where they agreed on a false story to cover for the false evidence they had submitted to justify the botched raid, prosecutors say.

Goodlett was charged with conspiring with another detective to falsify the warrant that led to the raid and then cover up the falsification.

Federal prosecutors also charged Jaynes and current Sergeant Kyle Meany with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice for using false information to obtain the search warrant. A fourth officer, former Detective Brett Hankison, was charged with civil rights violations for allegedly using excessive force.

 

In March, a jury acquitted Hankison on a charge of wanton endangerment. A grand jury earlier cleared the other two white officers who shot Taylor but charged Hankison for endangering neighbors in the adjacent apartment.

A grand juror on the case later said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron only presented the wanton endangerment charges against Hankison to the grand jury. read more

Glad the cops are being made to face justice. They've still got a lot of answering to do for their antics during the 2020 summer of love. 

I hope the folks who were making excuses for the cops read this and know they were blindly accepting complete fabrications. Pages 7/8/9 of this thread are pretty cringe in hindsight, doing the cops work for them of spreading and repeating their racist lies. 

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The former detective, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy, admitting that she had worked with another officer to falsify a search warrant application and had later lied to cover up their act. In pleading guilty, Ms. Goodlett became the first police officer to be convicted over the March 2020 raid, during which the police were searching for evidence of drug dealing by Ms. Taylor’s former boyfriend Jamarcus Glover.

Ms. Goodlett’s plea suggested that she may be cooperating with the Justice Department prosecutors who have charged her and two other former Louisville police officers over their roles in acquiring the search warrant for the raid. A fourth officer is accused of violating Ms. Taylor’s civil rights, as well as her neighbors’, by firing 10 bullets through the two apartments. None of those bullets struck anyone.

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Brett Hankison, the former detective who is facing federal charges of violating the rights of Ms. Taylor and her neighbors by firing shots through their apartments, also faced state charges over the shooting, but a jury acquitted him earlier this year. Before the Justice Department stepped in this month, he was the only officer to face criminal charges over the raid.

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In the application for the search warrant for Ms. Taylor’s home, Joshua Jaynes, a former detective who is among those facing charges, claimed that he had “verified through a U.S. postal inspector” that Mr. Glover was having packages sent to her apartment. Mr. Jaynes later admitted that he had not spoken with any postal inspector.

In court documents, prosecutors have said that Ms. Goodlett knew that Mr. Jaynes’s claim in the warrant application was false, and that she had added another misleading statement when she asserted that Mr. Glover had been using her address as his own.

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Bump. One of Breona's murderers, former officer john mattingly, is now doing viewing parties of his murder tape for select audiences of white women in restaurants. He also did the solid of piping the audio from the video through the entire restaurant using it's sound system.  

Dude is really excited to show off his kill, I guess. Even Jordan Peele couldn't have predicted that he'd draw an audience that bought tickets to see it though. 

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Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville detective who killed Breonna Taylor in a fruitless 2020 drug raid based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit, was fired after that notorious incident for his reckless use of deadly force. The senseless death of a young African-American woman, along with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis two months later, provoked nationwide protests in 2020 and became a leading example of the police abuse decried by Black Lives Matter. But that history did not faze the Carroll County, Kentucky, Sheriff's Office, which recently hired Cosgrove as a deputy.
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https://reason.com/2023/04/27/the-louisville-cop-who-killed-breonna-taylor-has-a-new-law-enforcement-gig/

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On 1/21/2023 at 8:42 AM, Captainant said:

Bump. One of Breona's murderers, former officer john mattingly, is now doing viewing parties of his murder tape for select audiences of white women in restaurants. He also did the solid of piping the audio from the video through the entire restaurant using it's sound system.  

Dude is really excited to show off his kill, I guess. Even Jordan Peele couldn't have predicted that he'd draw an audience that bought tickets to see it though. 

Wow. 

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