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Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was asleep in her Kentucky home just after midnight on March 13 when police entered with a search warrant in a drug investigation and opened fire, killing her. Now, a lawsuit filed by Taylor s family accuses the officers of wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence.Louisville Metro Police Department LMPD officials said officersengaged in the shootingafter Taylor s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot at them first. But the lawsuit alleges that police did not identify themselves stanley cup and that Walker, a licensed gun owner, thought someone was breaking in. Neither Walker nor Taylor had a criminal history of drugs or violence, the suit stanley cup says.Taylor had been working as an EMT at emergency rooms at two hospitals, helping with the coronavirus response, her family said. Breonna loves life and she loved to help people and she loved her family. She didn t deserve what they did to her, Tamika Palmer, her mother, told CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan. I stanley cup was more concerned for her washing her hands than her dying at home, Palmer added. Breonna Taylor The lawsuit, obtained by CBS News, says LMPD officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankinson and Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, who are named as defendants, arrived at the home in plainclothes and unmarked vehicles. According to the lawsuit, they had a knock and announce search warrant for Taylor s apartment, and were lo Quqb Horse racing s Triple Crown winners
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