Breonna Taylor's lawyers link her shooting death to Louisville gentrification plan, claim 'outrageous' execution of search warrant
Breonna Taylor's lawyers link her shooting death to Louisville gentrification plan, claim 'outrageous' execution of search warrant
"The execution of this search warrant robbed Breonna of her life and Tamika Palmer of her daughter," Florida-based attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the family, told the Louisville Courier-Journal, part the USA TODAY Network.
"Its execution exhibited outrageous recklessness and willful, wanton, unprecedented and unlawful conduct."
Mayor Greg Fischer's top economic development official called the accusations “a gross mischaracterization of the project."
"The work along Elliott Ave is one small piece of the larger Russell neighborhood revitalization and stabilization work we’ve been doing for years, including the transformation of Beecher Terrace through Choice neighborhoods grants," Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, Louisville Forward chief said in a statement.
Louisville Metro Police did not respond to the Courier-Journal's requests for comment Sunday night.
Accusations contained in lawsuits do not constitute evidence in a court of law and represent only one side of the argument.
The warrants carried out in the narcotics investigation on March 13 were meant to target one of the "primary roadblocks" to the development: A man named Jamarcus Glover, according to the complaint.
Glover rented a home placed squarely in the area of the planned redevelopment.
Glover is one of Taylor's ex-boyfriends with whom she maintained a "passive" friendship, Sam Aguiar, one of the attorneys, has previously said.
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