The Louisville City Council voted unanimously Thursday night (June 11) to ban “no knock” warrants in a new ordinance called “Breonna’s Law.”
The move is in response to the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT who was killed March 13 when Louisville police officers broke into her apartment in a botched drug investigation.
"I suspended use of these warrants indefinitely last month, and wholeheartedly agree with [the] council that the risk to residents and officers with this kind of search outweigh any benefit," he tweeted.
According to the Louisvile Courier-Journal, the new law also requires that officers who are serving warrants must wear body cameras, activate them at least five minutes before they execute the warrants, and not turn them off until at least five minutes after the serving has ended.
Court records indicate that police got a no-knock warrant from Jefferson County (Ky.) Circuit Judge Mary Shaw to apprehend a suspect on drug charges.
