Judge Agrees to Drop Charges Against Officers in Breonna Taylor's Death
A federal judge agreed to drop the remaining criminal charges against two Louisville, Ky., police officers who were involved in drafting the no-knock search warrant that led to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor by police officers in 2020.
Judge Charles R. Simpson III of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky approved a request by the Justice Department to dismiss the charges with prejudice — meaning that the two officers, Kyle Meany and Joshua Jaynes, cannot be charged in the same case later. He made the ruling in a one-page order, without explanation.
Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency room worker, was watching movies in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend when plainclothes officers battered down the door looking for illegal drugs. Ms. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, believing the intruders were robbers, fired a single shot at them with his licensed handgun, and the unarmed Ms. Taylor was killed in the hail of return fire from the officers.
In an interview with ABC News this week, Ms. Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, denounced the move to drop the charges against the officers, saying that her daughter “was killed because of their lies and neg
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/breonna-taylor-officer-charges-dropped.html
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