Regardless, the NRA’s lack of comment to date has been conspicuous.
It has been two months since a 26-year-old front-line medical professional was gunned down inside her Louisville, Kentucky, home by police officers and her family said they are still seeking justice.
Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were sleeping inside their Springfield Drive apartment on March 13.
Taylor worked for Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services as a licensed EMT for two hospitals. Walker, 27, was about begin his new position with the postal service.
Around 12:30 a.m., three plainclothes police officers "breached the front door," and "blindly" opened fire into their apartment, alleges a lawsuit filed by Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer.
The officers -- identified as Louisville Metro Police Department Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Officers Brett Hankinson and Myles Cosgrove -- were attempting to execute a search warrant for suspected drug trafficking and allegedly announced themselves before and after using a ram to break open the door, said Commander Ted Eidem, with the Louisville Police Department's Public Integrity Unit at the time.
"As confirmed by multiple neighbors, the defendant officers did not knock or identify themselves prior to entering Breonna’s home," the lawsuit claims.
Police executed a "no-knock entry" to the apartment "due to the nature of how these drug traffickers operate," according to the arrest warrant obtained by ABC News.
Taylor was accused of accepting USPS packages for an ex-boyfriend who police were investigating as an alleged drug trafficker and used her address, according to the warrant.
The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson District Court on April 27 by attorneys Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker, seeks damages for battery, wrongful death, excessive force, negligence and gross negligence. Cosgrove, Hankinson and Mattingly are as defendants.
Walker had a license to carry and kept firearms in the home for protection, according to the lawsuit.
Police said Walker allegedly opened fire after they opened the door and they exchanged fire. Mattingly was shot in his leg.
"More than 25 bullets hit objects in the home’s living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, hallway, both bedrooms in Taylor and Walker's apartment and into the adjacent home, where a 5-year-old child and pregnant mother lived," the lawsuit alleges.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/breonna-t...dly-killed-police-executing/story?id=70657850
It has been two months since a 26-year-old front-line medical professional was gunned down inside her Louisville, Kentucky, home by police officers and her family said they are still seeking justice.
Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were sleeping inside their Springfield Drive apartment on March 13.
Taylor worked for Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services as a licensed EMT for two hospitals. Walker, 27, was about begin his new position with the postal service.
Around 12:30 a.m., three plainclothes police officers "breached the front door," and "blindly" opened fire into their apartment, alleges a lawsuit filed by Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer.
The officers -- identified as Louisville Metro Police Department Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Officers Brett Hankinson and Myles Cosgrove -- were attempting to execute a search warrant for suspected drug trafficking and allegedly announced themselves before and after using a ram to break open the door, said Commander Ted Eidem, with the Louisville Police Department's Public Integrity Unit at the time.
"As confirmed by multiple neighbors, the defendant officers did not knock or identify themselves prior to entering Breonna’s home," the lawsuit claims.
Police executed a "no-knock entry" to the apartment "due to the nature of how these drug traffickers operate," according to the arrest warrant obtained by ABC News.
Taylor was accused of accepting USPS packages for an ex-boyfriend who police were investigating as an alleged drug trafficker and used her address, according to the warrant.
The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson District Court on April 27 by attorneys Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker, seeks damages for battery, wrongful death, excessive force, negligence and gross negligence. Cosgrove, Hankinson and Mattingly are as defendants.
Walker had a license to carry and kept firearms in the home for protection, according to the lawsuit.
Police said Walker allegedly opened fire after they opened the door and they exchanged fire. Mattingly was shot in his leg.
"More than 25 bullets hit objects in the home’s living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, hallway, both bedrooms in Taylor and Walker's apartment and into the adjacent home, where a 5-year-old child and pregnant mother lived," the lawsuit alleges.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/breonna-t...dly-killed-police-executing/story?id=70657850
