Breonna Taylor death: four Louisville police officers charged

Civil rights charges brought against current and former officers for role in fatal shooting of Black woman in Kentucky in March 2020

The US Department of Justice on Thursday brought civil rights charges against four current and former Louisville police officers for their roles in the 2020 fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was killed in her home, a case that stirred national protests over police brutality.

Federal investigators alleged that the members of a Louisville unit called Place-Based Investigations falsified" the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant, violating Taylor's civil rights.