{"id":670028,"date":"2026-03-20T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/670028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:42:14","slug":"prosecutors-seek-to-dismiss-charges-against-two-louisville-officers-in-the-breonna-taylor-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/670028\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors seek to dismiss charges against two Louisville officers in the Breonna Taylor case"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors asked a judge Friday to dismiss the charges against two Louisville officers accused of falsifying the warrant that led police to raid Breonna Taylor\u2019s<\/a> apartment the night she was killed six years ago.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said in a court filing that their review of the case showed the charges<\/a> against former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany should be \u201cdismissed in the interest of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear when the judge might rule on the request. A hearing is scheduled for April 3.<\/p>\n

Judges have twice reduced a felony charge against each officer to a misdemeanor, saying there wasn\u2019t a direct link between the false information in the warrant and Taylor\u2019s death. Prosecutors said after the second ruling that they had decided to drop the cases. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are elated with this development,\u201d said Travis Lock, an attorney for Jaynes.<\/p>\n

Meany\u2019s lawyer, Michael Denbow, said he is \u201cincredibly grateful for today\u2019s filing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meany \u201cis looking forward to putting this matter behind him and moving forward with his life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Taylor, 26, was shot to death by police when they broke down the door<\/a> of her apartment while serving a no-knock drug warrant looking for a former boyfriend who was no longer there.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s boyfriend at the time fired at the officers, and Taylor was killed as police fired back.<\/p>\n

The March 13, 2020, death of Taylor, who was Black, and local anger over Louisville\u2019s handling of the case gained widespread attention during the wave of racial justice protests sparked by the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis that May. Six years on, activists continue to point to Taylor\u2019s killing as an example of the systemic injustice Black women face.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden pressed charges against the officers. Under President Donald Trump, though, the Department of Justice asked that Brett Hankison, the only officer serving prison time<\/a> related to Taylor\u2019s killing, be let out of prison while he appeals his conviction.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s mother, Tamika Palmer, said in a Facebook post that she is extremely disappointed in Trump\u2019s Justice Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir phone call today informing me that charges against the police are being dropped while implying they have helped me is utterly disrespectful,\u201d Palmer wrote. \u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve heard from them since they took over and it\u2019s clear they have not served me or Breonna well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s decision was an insult to everyone who fought for Taylor and shows her life is not valued by the current administration, said Democratic U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey, who represents much of Louisville. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is heavy for Breonna\u2019s loved ones \u2014 this is not justice,\u201d McGarvey posted on social media.<\/p>\n

A federal judge sentenced Hankison to 2 years and nine months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for blindly firing<\/a> 10 shots into Taylor\u2019s windows on the night she was killed. None of the shots hit anyone.<\/p>\n

Neither of the two officers who did shoot Taylor was charged, after prosecutors deemed they were justified in returning fire into the apartment.<\/p>\n

Police found no drugs or cash inside Taylor\u2019s apartment. The city paid a $12 million wrongful death settlement<\/a> to Taylor\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Taylor\u2019s family said the warrant needs heavy legal scrutiny because without it police never go to her door and the shooting never happens. They remain angry and heartbroken almost no one faced punishment in the shootings, attorneys Ben Crump and Lonita Baker said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreonna Taylor always deserved more than the scraps of justice she got. Now, even those may be further stripped away,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

This story was updated to correct the spelling of Tamika Palmer\u2019s name, which had been misspelled \u201cTamkia.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Collins reported from Columbia, South Carolina. Associated Press reporters Aaron Morrison in New York City and Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors asked a judge Friday to dismiss the charges against two Louisville officers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":670029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3881,54912,282876,282882,116728,69,57,57213,4228,82,282877,357,28022,282878,2936,43083,282880,17635,238019,50,2068,282879,282881,94,61,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-670028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-ap-top-news","tag-ben-crump","tag-breonna-taylor","tag-brett-hankison","tag-counterfeiting-and-forgery","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-george-floyd","tag-indictments","tag-joe-biden","tag-joshua-jaynes","tag-kentucky","tag-ky-state-wire","tag-kyle-meany","tag-law-enforcement","tag-louisville","tag-michael-denbow","tag-minneapolis","tag-morgan-mcgarvey","tag-news","tag-race-and-ethnicity","tag-tamika-palmer","tag-travis-lock","tag-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116263685089424065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}