US police shooting of Black man in Georgia echoes Breonna Taylor

Atlanta police burst into the apartment where Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying down and shot him, the family lawyer says.

Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near the US city of Atlanta when police serving a narcotics search warrant burst through the front door with guns drawn and no warning. Bolton stood up and at least one of the officers fired, sending two bullets into Bolton’s chest. The 49-year-old Black man died of his injuries. Details of the predawn encounter in December – most of which come from a lawyer representing Bolton’s family – resemble a case that is well known across the United States: the killing nine months earlier of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. The 26-year-old Black woman also died after being shot by officers serving a drug search warrant at her apartment.