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Officers who killed Breonna Taylor should not have fired their weapons, internal investigator finds
By Marisa Iati The Washington Post,Updated May 10, 2021, 9:16 p.m.
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Louisville demonstrators demanded justice for Breonna Taylor on March 13, the first anniversary of the fatal police raid on her apartment.Joshua Lott/The Washington Post
Two Louisville police officers whose shots struck and killed Breonna Taylor never should have fired their weapons, a department investigator found - a conclusion that the forceâs upper brass partly rejected.
While the officers had a right to protect themselves when Taylor s boyfriend fired at them, the circumstances made it unsafe to take a single shot in response, Sgt. Andrew Meyer wrote in a Dec. 4 memo summarizing his investigation.
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Who is Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly?
Mattingly, a Louisville native, grew up in the Portland neighborhood of the city’s West End. His father was the pastor at Shawnee Baptist Church on Bank Street, and he went to the church’s school, Northside Christian Academy.
Mattingly, 48, was sworn in as a Louisville police officer in 2000, and sworn in as a sergeant in 2009, according to his personnel file.
He worked in multiple divisions around the city and spent three years in the now-defunct VIPER Unit Violent Incident Prevention, Enforcement and Response which targeted hot spots of violent crime and Louisville s most wanted criminals.