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Was the Search Warrant for the Drug Raid That Killed Breonna Taylor Illegal?

Posted on AllSides June 22nd, 2020
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Violence in America, Breonna Taylor, police, no-knock warrants
ANALYSIS

The information in the no-knock warrant application was based purely on guilt by association.

When Louisville, Kentucky, Detective Joshua Jaynes applied for the no-knock search warrant that led to Breonna Taylor's death last March, he said he expected to find "illegal narcotics or paraphernalia," "proceeds from drug trafficking," or "paperwork that may be a record of narcotics sales or that may indicate the transport, concealment or sales of narcotics." But after three plainclothes officers broke into Taylor's apartment around 12:40 a.m. on March 13 and shot the unarmed 26-year-old woman...

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