The new law also requires police officers to wear body cameras in more situations.
, the warrant did not include Taylor's name and had been issued for a home nearly 10 miles away from her apartment complex. The officers were allegedly at the apartment looking for illegal drugs, which they did not find. Attorneys for Taylor’s family also claim the warrant was based on information officers had gathered two months before the raid,"Two months old. Anything could change.
Taylor’s family filed a lawsuit earlier this month claiming wrongful death, use of excessive force, and gross negligence on behalf of the officers. The family’s attorneys also called for an end to the use of “no-knock” warrants, a case they made before the Metro Council Public Safety Committee on Wednesday."Narcotics investigations do not justify the risks associated with no-knock warrants,” Baker said.
Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Steve Conrad told WLKY that the department doesn’t track no-knock warrants, but that they represent a small percentage of the total number of search warrants the department executes. Of the 3,085 search warrants LMPD executed in 2019, only 22 of those were no-knock. In 2020, officers have executed only six no-knock warrants up to this point.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been stressing the dangers of no-knock warrants for decades. After a shooting death in Colorado, then-ACLU of Colorado Legal Director Mark Silverstein,"No-knock warrants pose a danger to the lives of police officers as well as innocent civilians.” Silverstein’s words also seem to foreshadow the situation in Taylor’s apartment that night."If police do not successfully communicate their identity in the split-second when they kick down the door,” he said, “they are likely to
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