We’ve devoted plenty of coverage here to the ongoing saga of the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky in 2020. Her death immediately became one of those flashpoints of “racial injustice” that led to riots in the streets and several police officers being shot. Taylor was portrayed as another innocent victim of a brutally oppressive criminal justice system where a young Black woman could be gunned down by the cops with no repercussions. Despite increasing evidence that the police probably acted appropriately, local prosecutors wound up bringing charges against four of the officers involved in the incident, including felony counts that could potentially lead to lengthy prison terms. But this week, this sad tale drew much closer to a finish when a federal judge threw out the last of the felony charges against the officers, leaving only a couple of procedural…
Most Charges in Breonna Taylor Shooting Dismissed – HotAir
