The Louisville Metro Police Department announced Tuesday that it has fired Brett Hankison, one of the officers involved in the March shooting death of 26-year-old emergency medical worker Breonna Taylor.
In a letter to Hankison tweeted by the department, the Louisville police chief called his conduct "a shock to the conscience.".
Officials claimed the officers knocked on the door and announced themselves, and only started shooting after they were "immediately met by gunfire" from Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.
You have never been trained by the Louisville Metro Police Department to use deadly force in this fashion.
"I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department," he added.
The three officers involved in the shooting — Hankison, Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove — had all been placed on administrative reassignment throughout the investigation.
In the wake of Taylor's death, Louisville passed a ban on "no-knock" warrants, which allow police to enter a home without first announcing their presence. »