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Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend arrested but police who shot her are still not

Police involved in aspiring nurse's death also botched raid in 2018

Graig Graziosi
Friday 28 August 2020 16:47 BST
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Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend was arrested on drug charges on Thursday after warrants were issued for his arrest.

Jamarcus Glover, 30, was charged with complicity possession of a controlled substance for cocaine and heroin, complicity trafficking in marijuana, complicity tampering with physical evidence, complicity to trafficking cocaine and no operators/moped license, according to Wave3 News in Louisville, Kentucky.

Mr Glover was named on the search warrant that officers were executing when they stormed Ms Taylor's apartment and killed her in the process.

While Mr Glover has been arrested for the crimes he has allegedly committed, the police officers who killed Ms Taylor still have not been brought to justice.

Vice News uncovered that at least five of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Ms Taylor were part of another botched raid in 2018.

The officers - Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, Mike Campbell, Mike Nobles and Joshua Jaynes - all worked on the case that led to Ms Taylor's death. All of the officers but Mr Jaynes were present at the raid. Mr Jaynes requested the search warrant.

During their botched 2018 raid, the officers burst into the home of Louisville resident Mario Daughtery. They detonated flash bang grenades in his house and shouted at his girlfriend, Ashlea Burr and their teenage children.

The police believed - based on a tip - that marijuana was being grown inside Mr Daugherty's residence.

Despite the warrant not calling for a "no-knock raid," the responding SWAT team did not knock when they arrived at the home, and used a battering ram to burst in through the front door.

One of Mr Daughtery's daughters - believing they were being robbed - fled the house out the back door and went to hide in an alley. Police found her cowering in the rain and - with guns drawn - demanded she get onto the ground. They asked if she had any weapons on her, but the girl said she was just trying to reach her grandmother, who lived next door to them.

The raid resulted in zero charges.

Mr Daughtery and Ms Burr filed a lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Government, but no charges were ever brought against the officers, and the city moved to dismiss the case.

Of the police involved in the botched raid on the Daughtery residence and in Ms Taylor's apartment, only one appears to have faced any formal consequences. Mr Hankison was fired from his job because he "displayed an extreme indifference to human life" during the raid at Ms Taylor's apartment. He was one of the two officers who fired their weapons during the raid. The other was Mr Cosgrove.

Mr Hankison is appealing his firing, though his appeal is in limbo while the criminal investigation into the shooting is completed.

Ms Taylor's shooting, along with the murder of George Floyd by police and the shooting of Jacob Blake, have sparked numerous protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Demonstrators have been in the streets since late spring.

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