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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Louisville police discriminate against Black people: report’s key findings

Merrick Garland, the attorney general, with Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke in Louisville on Wednesday.
Merrick Garland, the attorney general, with Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke in Louisville on Wednesday. Photograph: Timothy D Easley/AP

A report published by the US justice department following the botched police raid that killed Breonna Taylor has found that Louisville’s Metro police department routinely engaged in a pattern of excessive force that deprived people of their rights.

The litany of abuses revealed in the report comes amid a reckoning in the US with the brutality and racism of American policing.

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