Officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor hired by sheriff’s office in Kentucky
The former Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement in a county north-east of the Kentucky city.
The Carroll county sheriff’s office on Saturday confirmed the hiring of Myles Cosgrove, who was fired from the Louisville Metro police department in January 2021 for violating use-of-force procedures and failing to use a body camera during the raid on Taylor’s apartment, WHAS-TV reported.
Taylor, a Black woman, was killed on 13 March 2020 by police executing a narcotics search warrant. None of the three white officers who fired into Taylor’s home were charged by a grand jury in connection with her death.
The chief deputy in Carroll county, Robert Miller, pointed to that fact in reference to Cosgrove’s hiring.
A protest in Carroll county was planned on Monday in response to his hiring.
Investigators said that Cosgrove fired 16 rounds into the apartment after the front door was breached and that Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot at them. Federal ballistics experts said they believe the shot that killed Taylor came from Cosgrove.
In November, the Kentucky law enforcement council voted not to revoke Cosgrove’s state peace officer certification. That meant he could apply for other law enforcement jobs in the state.
Louisville city officials in December agreed to pay $2m to settle two lawsuits filed by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. And last month, a federal justice department investigation prompted by Taylor’s killing found that Louisville police engaged in unlawful practices that breached locals’ civil rights while discriminating against both Black people as well as people with behavioral health deficiencies.
In news involving a separate high-profile police killing, the former Minnesota officer convicted of manslaughter after the shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during an April 2021 traffic stop was released from prison after serving 16 months in custody, according to ABC News.
Kim Potter is white, and Wright was Black. Prosecutors had sought a much stiffer punishment for Potter before she was sentenced.
Source: The Guardian US
