According to WLKY, Joshua Jaynes, the ex-LMPD officer who was involved in the deadly botched raid on Breonna Taylor’s home has been arrested by the FBI… more than two years later.
The FBI had been conducting an independent civil rights investigation following the tragic incident that happened at Taylor’s apartment back in 2020. Joshua Jaynes was fired after then-police Chief Yvette Gentry said he lied on the application for that warrant. As it was previously reported, that warrant led officers to Taylor’s apartment that March night, and as a result, she was ultimately shot several times by police and sadly died.
As the news site notes, the police merit board upheld Jaynes’ termination, and then a judge did as well this past June. The FBI, who has been conducting the investigation just filed charges against Jaynes. He has been charged with conspiracy to file false paperwork in a federal investigation. Jaynes has never been charged, until now.
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More On What Happened To Breonna Taylor
As we previously reported, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment on March 13, 2020, when at least seven police officers forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations.
Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was inside the apartment with her when the plainclothes officers knocked on the door and then forced entry. The officers claimed that they announced themselves as police before forcing entry. However, Walker said he did not hear any announcement and thought the officers were intruders and fired a warning shot at them. The shot hit officer Jonathan Mattingly in the leg, and the other officers fired 32 shots in return. As a result, Walker was left unhurt but Taylor was hit 6 times, killing her to death.
Walker was charged with assault and attempted murder of a police officer, but the charges were dismissed with prejudice 12 months later.
Meanwhile, the LMPD officer fired Brett Hankison for blindly firing through the covered patio door and window of Taylor’s apartment. On September 15, the city of Louisville eventually agreed to pay Taylor’s family $12 million and reform police practices.
Ultimately, the shooting of Taylor by the white police officers, and the lack of charges for her death, led to numerous protests and when a grand jury did not indict the officers for her death, further civil unrest ensued.
Supporters are still seeking justice for Breonna Taylor.