The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has reached a $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor's family six months after she was killed in her home during a police drug raid.
Mayor Greg Fischer announced the terms of the settlement at a news conference Tuesday afternoon with Taylor's family and their attorneys, Benjamin Crump, Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker.
The settlement will include several police reforms, including changes to the approval process for and execution of search warrants and the expansion of random drug testing of officers.
Crump and Baker said they are still demanding that the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is leading the investigation, bring charges against the three white officers who shot into Taylor's apartment.
The settlement was first reported by The Louisville Courier-Journal.
Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, filed a lawsuit in late April against three Louisville Metro Police Department officers, accusing them of wrongfully causing her daughter's death. The lawsuit alleged police used excessive force and the search was grossly negligent. In an amended complaint filed in July, Taylor's family claimed that the raid was connected to a gentrification project.
Palmer spoke briefly at the news conference.
"We must not lose focus on what the real job is," Palmer said. "It's time to move forward with the criminal charges because she deserves that and much more."
Officer Brett Hankison, who shot 10 rounds blindly into the apartment, where no drugs or money were found, was fired in June.
Officer Myles Cosgrove and Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly have been placed on administrative leave, along with the detective who requested the warrant.
None of the officers involved in the case have been charged.
Officers killed Taylor, 26, an emergency medical technician, after midnight March 13 while serving a no-knock warrant. Mattingly was shot in the thigh by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who said he thought an intruder was breaking into the home.
Taylor had no criminal record and was never the target of an inquiry.
Police were executing the no-knock search warrant in a drug investigation involving Taylor's ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug dealer. He had listed her apartment as his address and used it to receive packages, authorities said.
Taylor's case gained national attention after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes in May. Their deaths sparked global protests and calls for a national reckoning over racism and police brutality.
Many celebrities, including NBA star LeBron James and media mogul Oprah Winfrey have called for the officers involved in the case to be charged. Winfrey ceded the September cover of O: The Oprah Magazine to Taylor. Winfrey also had 26 billboards put up around Taylor's hometown of Louisville. Each billboard — one for each year of Taylor's life — demands justice and displays a quote from Winfrey: "If you turn a blind eye to racism, you become an accomplice to it."
In June, Louisville officials passed Breonna's Law. The measure banned the use of no-knock warrants, which allow police to forcibly enter people's homes without warning.
