There is an update in the case of Brena Taylor, an African-American woman, who was “manslaughtered” by the police.
According to the Associated Press on the 30th, the Louisville Police Department of Kentucky has taken measures to fire two detectives Jaynes and Cosgrove in connection with Taylor’s death – both of whom have been notified by the police to terminate their employment contracts.
“We’re doing nothing wrong,” confirmed the attorneys on behalf of Detective Jaynes, who will attend the pre-employment hearing on December 31, “we will dispute this, although I am not optimistic about changing this [re-exit] decision.” In the case of Taylor’s “manslaughter”, Detective Jaynes was not present, but was responsible for obtaining a search warrant before the operation.
However, the investigation showed that Jaynes violated the preparation procedure for the search warrant at that time. Another detective, Cosgrove’s lawyer also confirmed that he had received a dismissal letter from his police station. Kentucky Attorney General said that ballistic tests showed Cosgrove shot Taylor fatally.
In this summer’s “Black Lives Are Life” campaign in the United States, Brena Taylor has become the name that protesters often shout. In March this year, three plainclothes detectives mistakenly regarded the home of Taylor, a 26-year-old medical staff, as a hiding place during the drug investigation.
At that time, Taylor’s boyfriend thought that someone had broken into the house and robbed the house. After shooting, he was shot back by the police. The innocent Taylor was shot six times in a row.
In September, the Kentucky grand jury unanimously decided not to file murder charges against the three police officers involved, and only three charges of “indiscriminate harm” were brought against Brett Hankison, the main person responsible – not for killing Taylor, but because his bullets shot through Taylor’s apartment into a neighbor’s house, endangering the actual failure.
Three neighbors were punished for hurting. Such a verdict caused fierce protests in many parts of the United States.
