*Breonna Taylor’s death was allegedly the result of a gentrification operation that “misled” police into targeting her home.
Lawyers representing Taylor’s family in a lawsuit against the police department claim the 26-year-old’s shooting death is linked to the city’s plan to clear out the Louisville, Ky., neighborhood to make way for a multi-million dollar redevelopment project, per PEOPLE.
Here’s more via TMZ:
The Taylor family attorneys filed docs to amend the wrongful death lawsuit against the 3 cops involved in Breonna’s death. According to docs, the family claims Breonna’s home was raided by police because there was “a political need to clear out a street for a large real estate development project” … adding Breonna’s death was the result of “a newly formed, rogue police unit violating all levels of policy, protocol and policing standards.”
In docs, the family says that this year alone, over a 3-week span — and less than a month before Breonna’s death — 8 homes in her neighborhood were demolished in an effort to speed up a multi-million dollar development plan.
The family says Breonna’s death could have been avoided had cops surveilling her home simply ran the tags on Breonna’s and her boyfriend’s cars. They say “it would have been clear that neither of these vehicles belonged” to the suspects cops were looking for that night.
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“The reality was that the occupants were not anywhere close to Louisville’s versions of Pablo Escobar or Scarface,” the suit says. “And they were not violent criminals. They were simply a setback to a large real estate development deal and thus the issue needed to be cleaned up.”
“Breonna’s home should never have had police there in the first place,” the filing reads, according to the Courier-Journal.
“When the layers are peeled back, the origin of Breonna’s home being raided by police starts with a political need to clear out a street for a large real estate development project and finishes with a newly formed, rogue police unit violating all levels of policy, protocol and policing standards,” the suit continues. “Breonna’s death was the culmination of radical political and police conduct.”
A spokeswoman for Mayor Greg Fischer called the allegations in the new filing “outrageous” and “without foundation or supporting facts.”
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