Killing of Breonna Taylor

On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician, was shot and killed in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment when plainclothes officers executed a no-knock warrant in a narcotics investigation. Taylor was not the subject of the investigation and no drugs were found. None of the officers were charged with her killing. One officer was convicted in 2022 of federal civil rights violations for recklessly endangering neighbors. Taylor's case amplified the national debate about no-knock warrants, expanded the civil rights movement of 2020, and prompted Louisville to ban no-knock warrants.