Louisville To Announce ‘Substantial’ Settlement In Breonna Taylor Case

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Topline

Louisville's metro government is expected to announce a "substantial" financial settlement Tuesday with the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman fatally shot by police in her apartment six months ago, according to multiple media reports.

Tangent

Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine sponsored a campaign featuring 26 billboards, one for every year Taylor was alive, across the city of Louisville calling for arrests and charges in the case.

Key Facts

Citing an unnamed source, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports the settlement also is expected to include some policing reforms, including a requirement that commanders approve all search warrants before they go to a judge.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer is expected to “make a major announcement,” in a Tuesday news conference according to a media advisory, though a spokeswoman for the mayor said she could not confirm the subject of the announcement.

Taylor’s family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city in April.

One of the three officers involved in Taylor’s death has been fired but the city has faced criticism that none of the officers has been charged in the case; local media reported last week that the case is soon to be presented to a grand jury at an undisclosed location.