Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced on Monday a sweeping Justice Department investigation into the Louisville, Ky., metro police and the county government there, the second time in a week that the department has opened a civil investigation into a police force that prompted national furor for the killing of an unarmed Black person.
The Louisville police came under fire after officers
raided the home of a Black medical worker named Breonna Taylor last March and shot her to death. Her killing helped fuel nationwide racial justice protests last year.
Critics have decried the pace of the investigation into her death. A grand jury
indicted Brett Hankinson, a former Louisville detective involved in the raid, for
wanton endangerment of Ms. Taylor’s neighbors, whose apartment was hit when he fired his gun. No one was charged for the death of Ms. Taylor.
