Published August 4, 2022 11:57am EDT
FBI charges 4 Louisville police officers in Breonna Taylor investigation
Former Louisville police officer Joshua Jaynes sought warrant that led to deadly raid on Breonna Taylor's apartment
By Greg Norman , David Spunt | Fox News
The FBI arrested former Louisville police officer Joshua Jaynes Thursday morning following his involvement in the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor, Fox News has confirmed.
Three other current or former Louisville police officers were also charged with civil rights violations, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday.
"The federal charges announced today allege that members of the place-based investigations unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant of Ms. Taylor’s home – that this act violated federal civil rights laws and that those violations resulted in Ms. Taylor’s death," Garland said.
"Specifically, we allege that Ms. Taylor’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when defendants Joshua Jaynes, Kyle Meany and Kelly Goodlett sought a warrant to search Ms. Taylor’s home knowing that the officers lacked probable cause for the search," he added.
Jaynes was fired from the Louisville Police Department in January 2021 after his supervisors said he lied on paperwork that lead to the March 2020 raid on Taylor’s apartment, during which she was killed.
"The charges announced today also allege that the officers responsible for falsifying the affidavit that led to the search took steps to cover up their unlawful conduct after Ms. Taylor was killed," Garland said. "We allege that defendants Jaynes and Goodlett conspired to knowingly falsify an investigative document that was created after Ms. Taylor's death.
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