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u.s. news Diabierna 5 augustus 2022

Feds charge 4 police officers in fatal Breonna Taylor raid

(AP) — The federal gov- Hankison was the only of- learning today that we’re not
ernment filed civil rights ficer charged Thursday who crazy.”
charges Thursday against was on the scene that night.
four Louisville police of- Louisville police said they are The Justice Department is
ficers over the drug raid seeking to fire Goodlett and also conducting a non-crim-
that led to the death of Meany. inal investigation of the Lou-
Breonna Taylor, a Black isville Police Department,
woman whose fatal shoot- Taylor was shot to death by announced last year, that is
ing helped fuel the ra- officers who knocked down probing whether the depart-
cial justice protests that her door while executing a ment has a pattern of using
rocked the nation in 2020. search warrant. Taylor’s boy- excessive force and conduct-
friend fired a shot that hit one ing unreasonable search and
The charges are another ef- of the officers as they came seizures.
fort to hold law enforcement through the door, and they
accountable for the killing returned fire, striking Taylor In the protests of 2020, Tay-
of the 26-year-old medical multiple times. lor’s name was often shouted
worker after one of the of- along with George Floyd,
ficers was acquitted of state Local activists and members who was killed less than
charges earlier this year. of Taylor’s family celebrat- three months after Taylor by
ed the charges and thanked a Minneapolis police officer the raid. dictment against Hankison
“Breonna Taylor should be federal officials. Supporters in a videotaped encounter in September 2020 that he
alive today,” Attorney Gen- gathered in a downtown park that shocked the nation. “Thank God that Kentucky would leave “issues regard-
eral Merrick Garland said and chanted: “Say her name, Attorney General Daniel ing potential civil rights vio-
in announcing the charges, Breonna Taylor!” Protesters who took to the Cameron did not get the last lations” to federal officials
which include unlawful con- streets over months in Lou- word in regard to justice for to investigate. Cameron had
spiracy, use of force and ob- “This is a day when Black isville were especially critical Breonna Taylor,” Crump said not responded to a request
struction of justice. women saw equal justice of Kentucky Attorney Gen- Thursday. “We have always for comment Thursday after-
in America,” family lawyer eral Daniel Cameron, who said this was a conspiracy to noon.
The charges named former Benjamin Crump said. presented only wanton en- cover up the death of Breon-
officers Joshua Jaynes and dangerment charges against na Taylor. Today the Justice Garland said the officers who
Brett Hankison, along with Taylor’s mother, Tamika Hankison for a grand jury to Department put forth the were at Taylor’s home just
current officers Kelly Good- Palmer, said she has waited consider in 2020. Members charging documents to show after midnight on March 13,
lett and Sgt. Kyle Meany. nearly 2 1/2 years for police of the grand jury later came we weren’t crazy.” 2020, “were not involved in
Most of the charges stem to be held accountable. forward to complain that the drafting of the warrant,
from the faulty drug warrant Cameron’s office had steered Cameron, a Republican run- and were unaware of the false
used to search Taylor’s home. “Today’s overdue, but it still them away from charges for ning for governor next year, and misleading statements.”
hurts,” she said. “You all (are) the other officers involved in said in announcing the in-

Jill Biden carries out new mission in 2nd year as first lady

(AP) — Jill Biden barn- against the deadly COV- Congress — have set her on side while testing possible fall She raised the gun issue later
stormed the country dur- ID-19 pandemic. a fresh mission: working to campaign messages before at the American Federation
ing her debut year as first help elect Democrats who audiences big and small. of Teachers convention in
lady as if on a one-woman New headwinds blowing in can help her husband. Boston in July, saying that
mission to help her hus- year two — President Joe She put a voice to the urgen- “we believe that AR-15s, the
band’s administration Biden’s low standing with She’s making no secret of her cy she and the president feel weapon that tore apart 19
tackle the problem of the the public and November frustration with Washington. over unfinished aspects of his children and two teachers
moment: getting people elections that could put Re- agenda. in their classroom, have no
vaccinated and boosted publicans back in control of “Joe truly believes in work- place on our streets.”
ing with Congress and get- After accompanying him
ting things done, but obvi- to the scene of deadly mass And she turned the Supreme
ously the Republicans are shootings at a grocery store Court’s decision overturning
pulling together and they’re in Buffalo, New York, and an the constitutional right to an
not budging. They are not elementary school in Uvalde, abortion into an argument
budging,” the first lady said Texas, the first lady — a com- for sending more Demo-
at one of four fundraisers she munity college professor — crats to Congress come No-
headlined in the past month. urged audiences to demand vember. President Biden has
tougher gun laws from Con- promised to sign a bill en-
“Who would think that AR- gress. shrining the right to an abor-
15s make any sense for any- tion in federal law, but there
thing? Who doesn’t believe “We need to fight, now, for isn’t enough support for it in
in the need to deal with cli- the lives of our children and Congress, where Democrats
mate change?” she said at a for the safety of our schools,” have slim majorities.
July fundraiser in Nantucket, she told the National PTA
Massachusetts, referencing Convention in June, shortly “All of us have a teacher voice
Republican opposition to after they visited Robb El- for when things go off the
the president’s call for an as- ementary School in Uvalde, rails and now is the time to
sault weapons ban and more where 19 pupils and two use it,” she said in Boston.
spending on climate change. teachers were killed by a man
firing an AR-15. In Nantucket, the first lady
With school out for the sum- defended her spouse of 45
mer, the teacher-first lady was Congress represents “the will years, saying “he’s just had
free to travel again in her role of the people,” she said, “and so many things thrown his
as the president’s chief sur- that’s why we need the peo- way” that weren’t expected,
rogate, highlighting admin- ple to speak up. Parents and including the abortion rul-
istration accomplishments teachers. All of us.” ing and Russia’s war against
and showing a more political Ukraine.