Former US police officer pleads guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up – By News Agencies (Al Jazeera) / Aug 23, 2022
Kelly Goodlett becomes first officer held criminally responsible for 2020 Louisville police raid that killed Taylor.
A former police officer in Louisville, Kentucky, has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in relation to the killing of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman whose shooting death during a police raid prompted mass protests for racial justice across the United States.
Kelly Goodlett pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on Tuesday in a federal court in Louisville, the New York Times first reported, becoming the first officer to be held criminally responsible for the raid.
Federal investigators said Goodlett, who helped write the warrant that led to Taylor’s killing in March 2020, added a false line to that document and later conspired with another detective to create a cover story when Taylor’s death began gaining national attention.
Taylor’s killing at the hands of police, along with that of George Floyd in Minnesota, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and others, fueled mass protests demanding an end to deadly police violence against Black people across the US.
