Jury Selection Starts In Lone Trial Over Breonna Taylor Raid
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There have been murder convictions in two other cases that fueled the 2020 protests.
The only criminal trial to arise from the botched police raid that left Breonna Taylor dead began on Friday, as hundreds of potential jurors gathered at a Louisville courthouse in what activists see as a chance for some measure of justice.
The former Louisville officer facing trial, Brett Hankison, was not charged in Taylor's shooting death but is standing trial on three lower-level felony charges for allegedly firing his service weapon wildly into Taylor's neighbors' apartments during the March 13, 2020, raid.
Whatever the verdict, the trial could leave a bad taste in the mouth of protesters who took to the streets of Louisville for months chanting "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor" as part of racial injustice demonstrations that exploded across the country that year.
