Sad News;federal judge dismissed major felony charges against former Louisville officers ruling that the actions of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend were the legal cause of her death.

The judge said Taylor’s death was triggered by the actions of her boyfriend, who opened fire when police arrived outside her Louisville apartment on March 13, 2020.

Regardless of whether former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany wrote and approved a falsified request for a warrant, it was her boyfriend kenneth walker’s gunfire at what he believed were intruders that caused a deadly police response, Simpson said.Taylor, 26, was killed by officers who returned fire.The case was already being upheld by civil rights activists as an example of police allegedly disregarding the life and rights of a Black woman when George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by officers in Minneapolis two months later, which gave Taylor’s death renewed attention

A federal grand jury in 2022 returned indictments against Jaynes, 40, and Meany, 35, charging them with depriving Taylor of her constitutional right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures resulting in death.

The mechanism cited in the case was Jaynes’ draft of an allegedly false search warrant application, which Meany approved, that stated there was sufficient evidence tying Taylor’s residence to illicit drugs.

Jaynes was also charged with conspiracy to cover up the search warrant’s lack of a foundation by allegedly creating a supporting document after the fact and then lying to investigators; and Meany was charged with lying to federal investigators.