Following the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death by police during a raid at her home in March 2020, the US Department of Justice has initiated a probe into the practices of the Louisville Police Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Monday, according to media reports. 

The move comes after Garland, last week, had announced a similar investigation into the tactics of the police in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd.

Taylor, who was a 26-year-old aspiring nurse, was shot and killed during a botched drug raid. A no-knock warrant was approved as part of the narcotics investigation. However, no drugs were found at her home.

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The new investigation is known as a “pattern or practice” — examining whether there is a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing — and will be a more sweeping review of the entire police department following the shooting of several Black Americans, AP reported.

On the night of March 13, 2020, Taylor and boyfriend Kenneth Walker were sleeping in her apartment when they heard a noise at the door. Walker, believing it was a break-in, fired his gun.

Police, who had obtained a controversial no-knock warrant to make a drug arrest, then fired some 30 shots back, mortally wounding Taylor.

While Walker said police battered down the door unannounced, the officers insisted they had identified themselves.

Two of the officers involved were fired in December.

Taylor’s death at first escaped widespread attention, but it suddenly became a focus for Black Lives Matter protesters following the death, under a policeman’s knee, of George Floyd on May 25.

To settle a civil suit, Louisville authorities agreed to pay the Taylor family $12 million and initiate police reforms.

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However, twelve months after the killing only one of three police officers has been charged, and only for endangering Taylor’s neighbors by firing wildly.

The failure to press homicide charges — a decision denounced as “outrageous” by Taylor’s family — sparked sporadic violence in Louisville last September.