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One of the three police of- ficers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Tay- lor in Louisville, Kentucky, is being fired, Mayor Greg Fischer announced Friday.
The chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department, Rob Schroeder, is initiat- ing termination procedures against the officer, Brett Hankison, the mayor said in a statement.
It is the first significant ac- tion taken against an officer in a case that has drawn widespread criticism and na- tional protests. Two other of- ficers are on administrative reassignment while the shooting is investigated.
Fisher said that "unfortu- nately," he and Schroeder
Judge Denies Trump Admin’s Attempt To Stop John Bolton’s Tell-All Book
1 Of 3 Louisville Police Officers In Breonna Taylor Case To Be Fired
BRETT HANKISON
could not talk about "what brought us to this moment, or even the timing of this de- cision," because of a provi-
sion in state law. He added that he would like to see the law changed. Hankison was hired by the department in 2003.
Taylor, 26, an African American emergency-room technician, was killed by po- lice on March 13 after three plainclothes officers used a "no-knock" warrant to enter her apartment around 12:40 a.m. as part of a drug investi- gation. Taylor was shot eight times.
According to his termina- tion letter released Friday by the police department, Han- kison violated procedure when he "wantonly and blindly" fired 10 rounds into Taylor's apartment while executing the warrant.
A District Court judge in Washington, D. C. has denied an injunction attempt by the Trump administration to stop former National Security Ad- viser John Bolton’s tell-all book from being sold in book- stores from June 23. In a ruling handed down Saturday morn- ing, Judge Royce C. Lam- berth wrote that Bolton’s book, The Room Where it Hap- pened, has already been widely distributed to news media for excerpt and 200,000 copies have been shipped across the country. The judge wrote, “given the widespread dissemi- nation of the books, the ‘horse is already out of the barn’.”
Trump called it a “BIG COURT WIN against Bolton, ”writing on Twitter that the
JOHN BOLTON
judge couldn’t have done much to stop the book’s release but still made “strong & powerful statements & rulings on MONEY & on BREAKING CLASSIFICATION.” He said Bolton will have a “really big price to pay. He likes dropping bombs on people, and killing them. Now he will have bombs dropped on him!”
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