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Louisville police paid $350,000 to a man jailed for 7 years before charges against him were dropped
The city of Louisville paid Percy Brown $350,000 after he sat in jail for seven years on murder cha…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Graphic body cam footage of Louisville shooting shows how police killed the bank gunman despite not being able to see through the building's glass doors
Footage from the Monday shooting in Louisville shows the suspect shooting at the initial responding…
Erin Snodgrass
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Louisville cops called Black people racial slurs and videotaped themselves throwing drinks at pedestrians from their police cars, explosive DOJ probe finds
The Department of Justice found that the abusive conduct included insulting people with disabilitie…
Jack Newsham,Chris Panella
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Louisville police officers tased a man so many times that his traumatized children cried 'Is my daddy dead?': DOJ report
According to the Department of Justice probe, officers tased the man, even though he wasn't a threa…
Chris Panella
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A Louisville police officer admitted to his superiors that he 'beat the shit' out of a drunk woman. He was never punished, the Department of Justice found.
The police officer beat "the woman's face over and over again with his flashlight" so many times he…
Rebecca Cohen
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A Louisville police sergeant ignored that a cop knelt on a man's neck for nearly 2 minutes but did note that an officer broke one of their fingernails, DOJ alleges
The DOJ released results of its investigation into the Louisville Police Department, alleging that …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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A bank manager in Louisville saw her colleagues shot dead while she was on a video call with them
A manager with Old National Bank in Kentucky told CNN that she watched the shooting unfold on her s…
Sophia Ankel
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear choked up as he revealed his close friend died in the Louisville shooting at a downtown bank
A shooter opened fire in a bank in downtown Louisville on Monday morning, killing 5 people, includi…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Chris Panella
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Louisville shooting survivor describes seeing shooter, running for his life from downtown bank: 'I could see him still shooting'
A Louisville shooting survivor said he "took off running out the front door" of the downtown bank a…
Natalie Musumeci
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Louisville police officers mocked a man having a mental health crisis, joked about sexually harassing him, then 'took him down' and hurt him when he tried to go inside a psychiatric hospital: DOJ
The DOJ released a report about the Louisville Metro PD's pattern of abuse, revealing a disturbing …
Azmi Haroun,Rebecca Cohen
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A Louisville police officer let his dog attack a 14-year-old Black child who was not resisting. As the dog 'gnawed' on the child's arm, the officer said 'stop fighting my dog,' DOJ said in bombshell report
The teenager was bitten at least seven times and suffered "serious injuries on his arm and back fro…
Lloyd Lee,Rebecca Cohen
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The Louisville gunman's parents say he shouldn't have been able to buy the AR-15 he got 'in 40 minutes' days before the shooting
Police said the 25-year-old purchased the gun legally at a local dealership. Anyone over the age of…
Rebecca Cohen
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Police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor during a botched drug raid is hired by another police department
The FBI concluded that it was Myles Cosgrove's bullet that killed Breonna Taylor. He's now been hir…
Joshua Zitser
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The AR-15 the Louisville bank shooter used to kill 5 people will one day be auctioned off thanks to a Kentucky law. The city's mayor wants the law changed.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said the "shocking" law could put the weapon used in the deadly ma…
Natalie Musumeci
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A Louisville narcotics detective was accused multiple times of using charges against drug addicts to extort them into sex. He was able to resign and prosecutors never charged him, DOJ says.
The years-long DOJ investigation found repeated incidents of unconstitutional policing in the Louis…
Rebecca Cohen
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The Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is making an appeal to get his job back
The FBI concluded that Myles Cosgrove, a former detective with Louisville Metro Police Department, …
Lauren Frias
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Former Louisville police officer pleads guilty to hitting a kneeling protester in the back of the head at a Breonna Taylor rally
Cory Evans, 33, admitted hitting the protester in the back of the head with his riot stick in May 2…
Sinéad Baker
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Ex-Louisville detective admits to providing false information for Breonna Taylor search warrant
Kelly Goodlett, a former Louisville Police detective, is charged with providing false information i…
Katie Anthony
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Former Louisville Detective Brett Hankison's lawyer compared his actions on the night of Breonna Taylor's death to a 9/11 hero
In his closing argument Attorney Stew Mathews said Hankison could have ran away, but instead fired …
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Breonna Taylor's family is suing the police to release body camera footage the department says doesn't exist
Louisville Police say there were no body cameras activated at the raid that killed Taylor, but her …