US city to pay $12m settlement over Breonna Taylor’s death
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in a botched raid on her apartment in March, to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer said on Tuesday. The settlement appears to be one of the largest of its kind in the United States, where police departments are often shielded from having to pay damages for deaths in their custody. No police officer has been criminally charged over Taylor's death. Taylor's death, alongside that of George Floyd, a Black man killed in May by a white Minneapolis cop who knelt on his neck, gave rise to one of the largest protest movements in US history, with daily demonstrations in cities ever since.
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