Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville detective who killed Breonna Taylor in a fruitless 2020 drug raid based on a fraudulent search warrant affidavit, was fired after that notorious incident for his reckless use of deadly force. The senseless death of a young African-American woman, along with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis two months later, provoked nationwide protests in 2020 and became a leading example of the police abuse decried by Black Lives Matter. But that history did not faze the Carroll County, Kentucky, Sheriff's Office, which recently hired Cosgrove as a deputy.
Taylor was a 26-year-old EMT and aspiring nurse with no criminal record. Louisville police were investigating her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, for drug dealing. Detective Joshua Jaynes obtained a hastily approved no-knock warrant to search Taylor's apartment based on information he later admitted was inaccurate. Even taking his affidavit at face value, it did not contain sufficient evidence to establish probable cause, let alone enough evidence to justify a warrant authorizing police to enter her home unannounced in the middle of the night.
