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The killing of Breonna Taylor has spurred calls for authorities reform.
A city council in the United States state of Kentucky has actually voted to prohibit no-knock warrants, passing a law called in honour of a female who was shot dead by authorities.
Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot eight times when officers entered her apartment or condo in Louisville on 13 March.
They were executing a no-knock search warrant as part of a drugs investigation.
A no-knock warrant is a search warrant authorized by a judge that allows authorities to go into a home without consent.
Inside, the officers exchanged fire with Ms Taylor’s partner, but no drugs were found.
The specific occasions are challenged, as police state that regardless of the warrant, they did knock before raiding her address using a battering ram. Ms Taylor’s household and a neighbour have disputed this.
On Thursday, Louisville’s city board voted all, 26 -0, in favour of prohibiting the controversial warrants.
The ordinance, symbolically called “Breonna’s Law”, was put to a vote after calls for police reform at current protests in the city and across the country.
” I’m simply going to state, Breonna, that’s all she wanted to do was conserve lives, so with this law she will continue to get to do that,” Ms Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, stated of her child, who was an emergency medical technician.
” She would be so happy.”
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