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Kentucky Police Officer Shot During Breonna Taylor Raid Filed Countersuit Against Her Boyfriend

Tim Pearce
Kentucky Police Officer Shot During Breonna Taylor Raid Filed Countersuit Against Her Boyfriend
Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times

A Kentucky police officer shot during the March raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment filed suit against Taylor’s boyfriend on Thursday over the injury.

Louisville Metro Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly filed a countersuit against Kenneth Walker, alleging that Walker’s actions on the night of the raid were “outrageous, intolerable and offends all accepted standards of decency or morality,” according to the Louisville Courier Journal. Police say that Walker fired a single shot after police busted down Taylor’s apartment door, hitting an officer in the leg. Officers returned fire, missing Walker but hitting and killing Taylor.

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