Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed a law Friday partially banning no-knock warrants more than a year after Breonna Taylor was killed in a …
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed a law Friday partially banning no-knock warrants more than a year after Breonna Taylor was killed in a shootout with police officers after they charged into an apartment without knocking. The law only allows for no-knock warrants if there is “clear and convincing evidence” that the crime in question “would qualify a person, if convicted, as a violent offender,” according to the text of the legislation. Taylor,26, was shot and killed in March 2020 after police executed a no-knock warrant in a botched drug raid. The no-knock warrant was originally approved because it was a drug investigation.
