Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend settles lawsuits against City of Louisville for $2M News
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Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend settles lawsuits against City of Louisville for $2M

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, Monday settled the lawsuits against City of Louisville for the shooting and death of Taylor in 2020. Taylor was killed in March 2020 during a botched no-knock warrant raid of her apartment by Lousiville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers.

Walker’s attorney Steve Romines, in a statement to Washington Post, said:

“[Taylor’s death] will haunt [Walker] for the rest of his life… He will live with the effects of being put in harm’s way due to a falsified warrant, to being a victim of a hailstorm of gunfire and to suffering the unimaginable and horrific death of Breonna Taylor.

Walker filed two lawsuits against the City of Louisville, and this settlement resolves both for a total of $2 million. The first lawsuit was filed in Kentucky state court in September 2020. The second was a federal civil rights lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in March 2021.

The city also previously settled with Taylor’s family in September 2020 for $12 million.