LEXINGTON, Ky. — Nearly 900 days after Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in March 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice announced federal charges against four current and former Louisville police officers for their alleged roles in her death.
Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, said the announcement of charges against the four officers caused people to learn what she and others had been saying for more than two years: that the police were responsible for her death.
“I have waited 874 days for today,” Palmer said. I couldn’t have done it without some of you all. Some of you all have been out here have tearing me down, you have harassed me, some of you have carried me, but all of that has made me and I am OK with that.”
