#Louisville cop involved in Breonna Taylor’s death will be fired

One of the Kentucky cops involved in the death of Breonna Taylor is being fired after displaying conduct that was “a shock to the conscience” and “blindly” shooting 10 times into her Louisville apartment, according to the city’s police chief Friday.

Acting Louisville Chief Robert Schroeder said in his letter of termination to Officer Brett Hankison, “I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in this fashion,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

“Your actions displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life,” said the police official — who replaced Chief Steve Conrad after he resigned last month amid controversy over the fatal March 13 police shooting.

“The result of your action seriously impedes the Department’s goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible,” Schroeder wrote Hankison.

“I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department. Your conduct demands your termination.”

A lawyer for Taylor’s family responded to the Courier-Journal, “It’s about damn time.”

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer added at a press conference Friday, “Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that I would very much like to see changed, both the chief and I are precluded from talking about what brought us to this moment or even the timing of this decision,” according to the news outlet.

Hankison was one of three white cops who fired into the 26-year-old EMT’s apartment during a botched home raid.

The plainclothes officers were conducting a “no-knock warrant” during a drug probe when they barged into the home, Taylor’s boyfriend opened fire on them, thinking they were intruders, and the cops responded with a total of more than 20 bullets, striking her eight times and killing her. No drugs were found in the apartment.

The other two cops involved in the shooting are on administrative leave.

The state’s attorney general said Thursday that his office is still weighing whether to bring charges against the officers.