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Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, died in a botched police raid on her apartment in March 2020, when police shot her several times.
A subsequent investigation by the Louisville Courier Journal found that no-knock search warrants are disproportionately executed against Black Americans and Americans of color.
Despite growing cries to ban the practice outright, as is stipulated in the eponymous Breonna’s Law following her death, Beshear’s legislation bans no-knock warrants on drug cases.
“I cannot know the depths of pain caused by systematic racism, but in my administration we are committed to listening and continuing to act,” Beshear said at the signing. “I am signing Senate Bill 4 to help ensure no other mother knows Tamika Palmer’s grief at the loss of her daughter Breonna Taylor. This is meaningful change and it will save lives.”
Just more than a year after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, Gov. Andy Beshear signed into law a bill significantly limiting when a no-knock search or arrest warrants can be issued, the type obtained by Louisville police to raid her apartment that night.
Members of Taylor s family, including her mother, Tamika Palmer, stood with Beshear as he signed Senate Bill 4 into law at an event in Louisville Friday, where the governor also signed legislation creating a new tax increment financing district for the majority-Black West End of the city. I m signing the Senate Bill 4 to ensure another mother never goes through the pain Tamika Palmer has felt, Beshear said. This is meaningful change. It will save lives and it moves us in the right direction.
President Biden plans to pitch his $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on Wednesday.
Republicans have criticized the proposal as too expensive and argued that not enough of it would be spent on traditional infrastructures like roads, bridges and airports. But the president’s supporters say the plan would kickstart the economy and invest in the future.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Louisville Mayor