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A federal judge in Kentucky ruled that two police officers accused of falsifying a warrant ahead of the deadly raid that killed Breonna Taylor were not responsible for her death, The Associated Press reports. And rather than the phony warrant, U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson said Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, …

The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that the Louisville police engaged in “a pattern” of civil rights violations following an investigation into the police department in the aftermath of the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Among the Justice Department’s findings were that the Louisville Metro Police Department used “excessive force, …

The city of Louisville has reached a $2 million settlement with Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who sued the city over the police killing of his late partner in 2020, The New York Times reports. Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when …

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenny Walker, talked in-depth about the night his girlfriend was shot and killed by police on the new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk. Taylor and Walker were in their apartment on the night of March 13, 2020, when Louisville Metro Police executed a no-knock …

The FBI arrested Joshua Jaynes, the former Louisville Metro Police detective who was first reassigned to administrative duty and later fired for lying on the search warrant connected to the fatal raid at Breonna Taylor’s Louisville, Kentucky home in March 2020. Three others were also arrested, including Brett Hankison, the …

Brett Hankison, the former Louisville Metro Police Department officer charged in connection with the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, was found not guilty on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment Thursday. Jurors deliberated for just three hours before acquitting Hankison, the lone police officer who faced charges stemming from Taylor’s …

2 Chainz teamed up with Lil Durk and Sleepy Rose Thursday to perform his track “Lost Kings” on The Late Show. The song, which is off the rapper’s new album Dope Don’t Sell Itself, reflected on the tragic losses of Black Americans like Young Dolph and Breonna Taylor. “And I’m …

There was a fleeting moment, in the beginning of this unprecedented global pandemic, when I was released from the gravity of my skin. Our country was quarantined, isolated, imagining the worst from an invisible enemy. In Seattle, everyone wore masks, myself included. The world had emptied, and for the first …