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Kelly Goodlett, a former Louisville Detective is expected to plead guilty today to lying on a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s apartment raid.

More than two years after her murder the Justice department announced civil rights violation charges against former officers Joshua Jaynes, Brett Hankison, Kelly Goodlett, and Sgt. Kyle Meany due largely to Taylor’s family’s persistent advocacy for justice in her case.

Goodlett’s lawyer has said that she will plead guilty to a single count of conspiring to violate Breonna Taylor’s civil rights for helping falsify an affidavit for the search warrant.

The federal court’s charging doc says Goodlett falsely claimed a postal inspector had verified that Taylor was receiving packages at her apartment for her ex-boyfriend, who was a convicted drug dealer.

The 26-year-old emergency room tech was shot to death when police officers carried out a no-knock raid on her apartment in March of 2020.

Until this month, former detective Brett Hankison, who was one of three officers who shot at Taylor and her boyfriend while sleeping, was the only person to face charges in connection with the fatal raid.

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The federal civil rights trial for three former Minneapolis police officers over the killing of George Floyd starts today.

They’re facing charges of abusing their position to deprive Floyd of his rights as fellow officer Derick Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, May 25, 2020, resulting in Floyd’s death.

The federal indictment that was unsealed in May states Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao willfully deprived Floyd of his constitutional rights while “acting under the color of the law.”

Chauvin, who is serving more than two decades for the crime, already pleaded guilty in the federal case.

Kueng and Lane helped to restrain Floyd as Chauvin knelt on his neck during the attempted arrest. Thao kept bystanders backed away as Floyd, who was handcuffed and lying flat on his stomach, repeatedly said “I can’t breathe.”

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The other three are also awaiting trial on state charges.

George Floyd’s death let to an explosion of protests against police brutality across the country and around the world.

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