Breonna Taylor

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that four police officers involved in the 2020 shooting which killed Breonna Taylor have been charged with federal civil rights violations.

All four have been charged with civil rights violations in the death of the 26-year-old medical worker, who was shot to death by officers executing a search warrant.

Breonna Taylor’s family has joined with demonstrators and other supporters to honor the two-year anniversary of the Black woman’s passing in a botched police raid.

The acquittal of an ex-Louisville officer tied to the botched drug raid that ended with Breonna Taylor’s death is stirring the frustrations of her family and protesters.

A Kentucky jury reached the verdict Thursday.

The fate of the only officer charged in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor is in the hands of a jury

Former Louisville detective Brett Hankison has testified that he did nothing wrong during the botched narcotics raid that left Breonna Taylor dead.

Brett Hankison said he believed the Louisville officers who raided Breonna Taylor’s apartment were taking fire from an AR-15 rifle.

Myles Cosgrove, who was fired in January, fired 16 shots into Taylor’s apartment March 13, 2020.

Democrats and Republicans have failed to come to a police reform agreement after the loudest outcry in years over killings of Black Americans.

The probe will look at the use of deadly force by Phoenix officers and whether they engage in discriminatory practices, among other issues.

Police have said there is no footage showing the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. But Sam Aguiar, an attorney for Taylor’s family, filed a suit believing there is video footage that has not been seen. CK Hoffler, president of National Bar Association, discusses the suit.

Adam Mendelsohn, advisor to Lakers star LeBron James, told ESPN NBA reporter Rachel Nichols he was exhausted in connection with Black Lives Matter, #MeToo.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday announced an investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department, which has faced intense scrutiny and criticism in the 13 months since officers of the department killed Breonna Taylor inside her own apartment as they served a no-knock warrant. The probe marks the second “pattern or practice” investigation launched by the Justice Department in recent days....

It was a sadly powerful moment in American history. A Minnesota panel of six white and six Black or multi-racial jurors told us Tuesday that the life of a Black man, George Floyd, mattered. And more importantly, they told us his manner of death mattered, even coming under the knee of a white police officer.

Three officers were injured in the chaos, as seen on NBC4 News on Sunday, March 14, 2021.

Police Chief Michel Moore said Sunday that three officers were injured — none seriously — during clashes in Hollywood last night with demonstrators marking the first anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky, home.

Two demonstrations were held in Hollywood Saturday night in memory of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police in her Louisville, Kentucky home one year ago, and whose death triggered angry protests nationwide.

Chaos and arrests were the result of a protest in Hollywood to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor. NBC4 News reports at 11 p.m. on March 13, 2021.

On the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, the slain Black woman’s family continued their call for justice.