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5 police officers involved in the raid in which Breonna Taylor was killed were part of another botched raid less than 2 years earlier
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Vice News reports that five police officers who were part of the search on Breonna Taylor's apartment were all part of a 2018 raid in West Louisville, at the home of Mario Daugherty, his girlfriend, Ashlea Burr, and their teenaged daughters.
Four of the officers involved had conducted the search on Taylor's home during which she was shot and killed, while a fifth had requested the search warrant.
The Daugherty family filed a lawsuit against the city regarding the raid, in which they say the warrant was issued before they even moved into the home.
Five Louisville Metro Police officers involved in the Breonna Taylor case were part of a botched raid that left a family traumatized in 2018.
The incident, reported on by Vice News, occurred a year and a half before Taylor was killed in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment by police officers in March during a no-knock search.
Vice News reported that four police officers who were part of the search on Taylor's apartment, as well as a fifth who requested the search warrant, were all part of the 2018 raid in West Louisville, at the home of Mario Daugherty, his girlfriend, Ashlea Burr, and their teenaged daughters.
According to Vice, police obtained a search warrant on the Daugherty home after receiving a complaint that marijuana was being grown in their residence. Video from the incident shows a SWAT team knocking, then using a battering ram to open the door while announcing themselves as police.
Daugherty's 14-year-old daughter thought the family was being robbed, so she ran from the home and was arrested by police officers.
Police found a small amount of marijuana at the home, but no one was charged with a crime.
The Daugherty family sued Louisville in 2019 saying police obtained the warrant on the home before they moved in. The city moved to dismiss the case, though the lawsuit is ongoing.
"We just wanted to get our story out there because we didn't want this to happen to anybody innocent and anybody innocent's life to get lost," Daugherty told Vice News.
It wasn't until recently Daugherty realized that police officers involved in Taylor's death — Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, Mike Campbell, Mike Nobles, and Joshua Jaynes — had also been involved in the raid on his home.
Hankison, Cosgrove, Campbell, and Nobles were at Taylor's home the night of the raid, while Jaynes had requested the search warrant.
During the raid, Taylor's boyfriend thought they were being burglarized and fired his gun, which he held legally. Police returned with fire that killed Taylor in her sleep
2 New Jersey cops admitted they dressed in disguises and vandalized the cars of a man who filed complaints against them
Two New Jersey cops admitted to vandalizing the cars of a man who complained about them.
Stephen Martinsen and Thomas Dowling pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and agreed to forfeit any future public employment in the state.
The wore disguises to smash the windows and slash the tires of two vehicles in September.
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Two New Jersey police officers admitted Tuesday that they smashed up two cars owned by a man who had complained about them, the Monmouth County Prosecutor said.
Asbury Park Police Officer Stephen Martinsen, 31, and former officer Thomas Dowling, 27, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief in Monmouth County Superior Court, according to a statement from the county prosecutor.
The charge stems from an incident on September 3, 2019, when the men vandalized two cars — one in Asbury Park and another in Ocean Grove — that belonged to someone who had filed an internal affairs complaint against them. The men smashed windows and slashed the tires, causing $500 in damage, according to prosecutors.
"Spiteful retaliation from law enforcement officers towards a citizen for any reason is an unacceptable option. This is in no way condoned at any level, for any reason," Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said in a statement. "All members of the law enforcement community must maintain the public's trust by conducting themselves at the highest level of integrity and decency."
The two vehicles belonged to Ernest G. Mignoli, an Asbury Park resident who had criticized the police department, New Jersey Advance Media reported. The officers were dressed in disguises at the time, authorities said at the time.
When Mignoli, 70, learned that the officers were responsible for the damage to the cars, his "jaw dropped," he said in an interview with NJ Advance Media last year.
As a part of the plea agreement, neither men will be able to work public service in the state, the prosecutor's office said.
Their sentencing is scheduled for October 16.
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