Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say (Goes to the Louisville Courier-Journal)

The lawsuit alleges the warrant issued on Brionna Taylor’s home was for the purpose of using the police to clear her out for a planned real estate development project.

“The execution of this search warrant robbed Breonna of her life and Tamika Palmer of her daughter,” Florida-based attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the family, told The Courier Journal on Sunday.

“Its execution exhibited outrageous recklessness and willful, wanton, unprecedented and unlawful conduct.”

A spokeswoman for Mayor Greg Fischer said the allegations are “outrageous” and “without foundation or supporting facts.”

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The article also notes that as supporting evidence to obtain a no-knock warrant, the police claimed they’d contacted the US Postal Inspector for Louisville to ascertain suspicious packages were being sent to the late Ms. Taylor’s home.

The Post Office says that never occurred.

“Breonna’s home should never have had police there in the first place,” the attorneys wrote in the filing. “When the layers are peeled back, the origin of Breonna’s home being raided by police starts with a political need to clear out a street for a large real estate development project and finishes with a newly formed, rogue police unit violating all levels of policy, protocol and policing standards.