Former Cop Pleads Guilty In Breonna Taylor Coverup

The New York Times reports:

A former police detective admitted on Tuesday that she had helped mislead a judge into authorizing a raid of Breonna Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Ky., setting in motion the faulty nighttime operation in which the police fatally shot Ms. Taylor.

The former detective, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy, admitting that she had worked with another officer to falsify a search warrant application and had later lied to cover up their act.

In pleading guilty, Ms. Goodlett became the first police officer to be convicted over the March 2020 raid, during which the police were searching for evidence of drug dealing by Ms. Taylor’s former boyfriend Jamarcus Glover.

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Breaking News: A former detective admitted she had helped mislead a judge into authorizing the raid of Breonna Taylor’s apartment that led to her killing. https://t.co/wddsP1gKa5

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