A federal judge dismissed the most severe charges against two former Louisville police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020.
Prosecutors have accused Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany of providing false information in order to obtain the search warrant for Taylor’s apartment. The 26-year-old Black woman was shot and killed during the middle-of-the-night raid, and her death fueled racial justice protests in Louisville and across the country.
Both Jaynes and Meany were charged with felony deprivation of rights under the color of law, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. But that enhanced charge required the use of a weapon and resulted in “serious bodily injury or death.”…