The Justice Department’s announcement that it would open an investigation into Louisville’s police department just over 13 months after Breonna Taylor’s shooting death by officers in that Kentucky city following a “no-knock” entry recalled recent as well as past actions by the NYPD.
While Louisville officials banned the use of so-called no-knock warrants a few weeks after the 26-year-old emergency-room technician was shot and killed in a search for a man she had previously dated, NYPD officials have steadfastly defended the use of no-knocks as an essential law-enforcement tactic, and called a recent press conference to discuss its efficacy.
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