Judge dismisses charges against Breonna Taylor's boyfriend
Walker cannot be recharged for the crimes following the decision.
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Walker cannot be recharged for the crimes following the decision.
The following is a transcript of an interview with civil rights attorney Ben Crump that aired Sunday, March 7, 2020, on "Face the Nation."
The motion will be presented before a judge on March 8.
CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan joins CBSN from Louisville, where the city has reached a $12 million wrongful death settlement with Breonna Taylor's family. No charges have been brought so far against the police officers involved in the fatal shooting at her home.
The city of Louisville has agreed to pay Breonna Taylor's family $12 million in a wrongful death lawsuit, and agreed to institute reforms within the police department. Gloria Browne-Marshall, an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York, joins CBSN to explain how the settlement could complicate a potential criminal case against the officers involved.
New York Times best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson reads from his new book on America's reckoning with race nine months after the killing of George Floyd. In the book, he addresses emotional letters to Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and other African Americans who died too young.
Diamonds Ford says they entered unannounced. Her attorney says it amounted to a "no-knock warrant" like the one in the Breonna Taylor case.
McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after he was put in a chokehold by Aurora police in August 2019.
Images of the assault on the Capitol and of racial justice protests show a stark contrast in police responses.
The officer who fired the shot that killed Taylor and the officer who applied for the search warrant have been fired.
The New York Times visual investigations team built a 3D model of the scene of Breonna Taylor's death and pieced together critical sequences of events to show how poor planning and shoddy police work led to a fatal outcome. New York Times senior producer of visual investigations Malachy Browne joins CBSN to discuss the analysis.
In 2020, people protested around the world against racial injustice. Peniel Joseph, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, joined CBSN to discuss the issue and policies affecting it.
2020 will be a year remembered for the profound ways it has changed the nation. Here's a look back at some of the pivotal moments that shaped the year.
A detective who obtained the search warrant for Taylor's home and one of the officers who opened fire during the raid have both received pre-termination letters, their attorneys confirmed to CBS News.
The Louisville Metro Police Department has taken steps that could result in the firing of two officers connected to Breonna Taylor's death. Detectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes each received a pretermination letter from the interim police chief and are scheduled to have hearings on Thursday. Jericka Duncan has the story.
The Sculptor says he thinks it was it was an attack against the Black Lives Matter movement.
One of the Louisville Police Department officers who was wounded during Taylor's fatal shooting is suing Kenneth Walker.
A Louisville police officer wounded in the March 13 shooting in which Breonna Taylor was killed is suing Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, for assault, battery and emotional distress. When Walker set up a GoFundMe page for his defense, entertainment giant Tyler Perry donated $100,000.
The city of Louisville saw a second night of unrest over the decision not to charge police officers directly in the death of Breonna Taylor. Police arrested at least 24 people Thursday night. Body camera footage released by an attorney for one of the officers involved in the March incident shows the moments just after the shooting. Jericka Duncan reports.
Video has emerged that raises new questions about the officers' actions in the deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Adriana Diaz reports.
"Daniel Cameron completely undermined the integrity of our justice system..." an attorney for Taylor's family said. "Rather than fix this, eight prosecutors today chose to condone it."
Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush said that colleagues called her "Breonna" while wearing a mask dedicated to the EMT.
The lawsuit accuses Brett Hankison of predatory behavior towards women while working a security job at a Louisville bar.
A third anonymous grand juror from the Breonna Taylor case claims the juror was never presented with additional charges to consider indicting officers directly to Taylor's death.
"Walker's conduct in shooting Mattingly is outrageous, intolerable, and offends all accepted standards of decency and morality," the lawsuit notes.