breonna-taylor
The detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor in March 2020 during a deadly raid on her apartment has been hired by a rural sheriff’s office in Kentucky, the New York Times reports. Former Louisville police officer Myles Cosgrove has recently joined the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, county executive David Wilhoite confirmed. Cosgrove, who is white, was fired by […]
The former Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor in 2020 is now working for the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky. The hiring was revealed in a report from regional outlet the Courier Journal, which said over the weekend that the department had confirmed the addition of Myles Cosgrove, formerly of LMPD. […]
Grandmaster Jay, the leader of a Black pro-gun activist group, will spend the rest of the decade behind bars. The 59-year-old Cincinnati man—legal name John Fitzgerald Johnson—was sentenced to 86 months in prison this week for his actions during a 2020 protest in Kentucky. Johnson, who founded the Not Fucking Around Coalition, was accused of pointing an AR-15 rifle at two federally deputized officers in […]
Kelly Goodlett, a former Louisville Police Department Detective charged for her alleged role in the March 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor, plans to plead guilty. The New York Times reports Goodlett, 35, confirmed the plea with her attorney during an online court hearing Friday, and is scheduled to appear Aug. 22 before U.S. District Judge David […]
June 5 is Breonna Taylor’s birthday. On March 13, 2020, Taylor, an emergency room technician, was shot and killed by Louisville police officers during a botched raid in her own apartment. She was 26. Taylor’s death caused widespread Black Lives Matter demonstrations over policing and racial injustice in America. Taylor, in addition to the death […]
A horse named after Breonna Taylor secured a win during 2021 Kentucky Derby Week. According to CNN, the three-year-old filly was victorious in Thursday’s Race 4 at Churchill Downs, where she and jockey Corey Lanerie defeated five other horses by a wide margin. Breonna, which was trained by Steve Margolis, is owned JS Stables, LLC.—a racing operation owned and operated by Sam […]
An officer who was involved in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting is reportedly writing a book about the incident. According to the Courier-Journal, Louisville Metro Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly has landed a book deal with Post Hill Press—a Tennessee-based publisher that focuses on Christian and conservative works, as well as areas of pop culture, business, and self-help. The outlet reportedly learned of the […]
Georgia high school teacher Susan McCoy has received a lot of justified criticism after she suggested Breonna Taylor was responsible for her own death. The forensics teacher has gotten calls for her to be fired from her job at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia, the Courier Journal reports. “I’m sorry she was killed, but you know […]
Two weeks after its installation, a sculpture of Breonna Taylor in downtown Oakland was smashed on Saturday in what appears to be a targeted act of vandalism, San Francisco’s CBS affiliate reports. Sculptor Leo Carson created the bust of the late Taylor, who was murdered by Kentucky police earlier this year. The 26-year-old’s death sparked […]
Breonna Taylor‘s mother, Tamika Palmer, isn’t stopping until her daughter receives justice and she wants the oncoming president to join her in her fight. The Washington Post ran a full-page ad in its Thursday edition. This ad was a candid, open letter from Palmer addressed directly to President-elect Joe Biden. In the letter, she asked the […]
