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Trial for officer in botched Breonna Taylor raid pushed to 2022

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IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and A former police officer indicted by a Kentucky grand jury for his role in the botched, deadly raid on the home of Breonna Taylor will be tried in 2022, nearly six months later than originally planned.The new Feb. 1 trial date for Brett Hankison was announced Friday Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Ann Bailey Smith, who cited a court slowdown caused by pandemic restrictions. The trial was previously scheduled for Aug. 31.Smith said there were still many "logistical issues" surrounding jury selection, including whether witnesses would wear masks, thus shielding their facial expressions from the jury, and how the jury could be socially distanced. to three counts of wanton endangerment charged against him in a grand jury indictment. He is accused of firing into a neighbor's apartment as Louisville, Kentucky, police served a search warrant on Taylor's home in March 2020.The warrant was part of a drug investigation of Taylor's former boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, who later said she had no involvement in the drug trade.He told the that Louisville Metro Police acted on erroneous tips to secure the no-knock search warrant on Taylor's home. He to falsely claim Taylor was part of an organized crime syndicate.During the early morning raid, officers opened fire after Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a gun toward the door to ward off what he believed was a criminal intruder. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman and an emergency room technician, was killed by police gunfire.Authorities initially charged Walker with attempted murder on a police officer—Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was struck by gunfire—but later .Earlier this month, Gov. Andy Beshear signed of the type used to raid Taylor's home.Detective Myles Cosgrove, who fired the shot that killed Taylor, was not charged. Neither was Mattingly.At the , Ben Crump, an attorney for Taylor's family, said Hankinson had been charged "for bullets that went into other apartments but NOTHING for the murder of Breonna Taylor."Hankinson was fired in June. , who is on the application for a warrant, were terminated in January.The city of Louisville reached a with Taylor's family in September.Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.&nbsp;

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and A former police officer indicted by a Kentucky grand jury for his role in the botched, deadly raid on the home of Breonna Taylor will be tried in 2022, nearly six months later than originally planned.The new Feb. 1 trial date for Brett Hankison was announced Friday Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Ann Bailey Smith, who cited a court slowdown caused by pandemic restrictions. The trial was previously scheduled for Aug. 31.Smith said there were still many "logistical issues"...

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