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Podcast: Bryan MatthewsUnfiltered and Unapologetic
Episode: Sleeping While Black
Description: A woman was shot and killed in her Louisville, Kentucky, home by police executing a "botched" search warrant who forced their way in, surprising the woman and her boyfriend who thought the officers were burglars, her family says in a lawsuit.
The lawsuit — filed by the family of the woman, Breonna Taylor, an EMT worker — says she and her boyfriend thought they were being burglarized and he fired at the officers in self-defense. The lawsuit accuses the three officers of "blindly firing" more than 20 shots into the apartment. Taylor, 26, was shot eight times by police. Kenneth Walker, 27, was...