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Four current and former police officers from Louisville, Kentucky, were arrested Thursday and face federal charges over the 2020 shooting of a black woman who was killed after officers raided her home as she slept.
On the one-year anniversary of her death, a protester holds up a portrait of her.
Attorney General Garland said during a press conference Thursday that three of the officers charged were in fact guilty of violating Taylor's Fourth Amendment rights.
Two months after Taylor's shooting, the two of them met to agree on a cover up story.
Garland said that Hankison was charged with civil rights offenses for shooting through a window of Taylor's home.
Civil rights offenses are included in the charges.
One of the high-profile police shootings that sparked the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests was the death of Taylor. There were protests in Louisville after a Kentucky grand jury decided not to indict officers for her death. Hankison, who was accused of endangering her neighbors, was acquitted in March 2022. Hankison was let go from the Louisville Police Department in June 2020 after he was found to have violated procedures in obtaining a warrant.
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