Louisville has settled Breonna Taylor's wrongful death lawsuit
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Source: CNN
(CNN)The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has settled the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Breonna Taylor, a source told CNN Tuesday. Taylor's family sued the city after the 26-year-old EMT was shot and killed by Louisville Metro Police officers during a no-knock warrant executed at her apartment on March 13.
The mayor of Louisville is expected to announce the settlement later Tuesday in a joint press conference with the Taylor family attorneys. Attorney Sam Aguilar confirmed to CNN there is a settlement in the case.
"The city's response in this case has been delayed and it's been frustrating, but the fact that they've been willing to sit down and talk significant reform was a step in the right direction and hopefully a turning point," he said.
None of the three officers involved in the shooting have yet faced criminal repercussions in the killing. A grand jury has been empaneled in Louisville that will eventually decide their fates. An announcement has not been made about those proceedings.
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UPDATE - NYT reporting amount
By Rukmini Callimachi
Sept. 15, 2020, 12:35 p.m. ET
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After months of protests that turned Breonna Taylor’s name into a national slogan against police violence, city officials have agreed to pay her family $12 million and institute reforms aimed at preventing future deaths by police officers, according to three people familiar with the details.
The settlement of a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by relatives of Ms. Taylor, a young Black woman killed by white officers in a botched drug raid six months ago, is expected to be announced Tuesday by the family’s legal team and city officials, according to those briefed on the agreement.
Besides the multimillion-dollar settlement, among the highest to be awarded in a police killing in recent years, the city has also agreed to institute a number of changes in policing. They will impose more scrutiny on officers during the execution of search warrants, like the one that precipitated the death of Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, and make mandatory safeguards that were common practice in the department but were not followed the night of the March 13 raid.
Ms. Taylor died after her boyfriend said he mistook police officers for an intruder, as they rammed in the door of her apartment after midnight to execute a search warrant. He fired his handgun, striking one of the officers, setting off a response in which a torrent of bullets sliced through Ms. Taylor’s apartment and two adjoining ones, leaving her bleeding in her hallway. There was no effort to render her aid, as the officers outside scrambled to get an ambulance for the wounded officer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/breonna-taylor-settlement-louisville.html
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