35-year-old ex-Louisville police detective Kelly Goodlett has pleaded guilty to fabricating the search warrant that later lead to the senseless killing of #BreonnaTaylor in March 2020.
According to the New York Times, Goodlett pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate Taylor’s civil rights on Tuesday, as she confessed to forging a search warrant application and later falsified her report on what happened during the raid.Goodlett, who was one of four Louisville Metropolitan Police Department detectives that were charged by the US Justice Department on August 4 for the home raid, admitted she had conspired the disturbing act with one of her colleagues, and is now said to be facing five years in prison, along with a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.
Goodlett is the first of the four detectives to have been charged in the ongoing case as Taylor’s family continue to fight for justice. Taylor was asleep at her home on March 13, 2020, when police performed a no-knock raid with forced entry at her property. Her boyfriend said he had fired his gun after mistaking the police for intruders, with cops firing back 32 shots — six of those struck Taylor.
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