One of the police officers responsible for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor during a botched raid is appealing his termination over the incident this week.
Detective Myles Cosgrove was terminated in January from the Louisville Metro Police Department for his use of deadly force during the raid.
Cosgrove fired 16 rounds into Taylor's home and failed to turn on his body camera, according to the termination letter he received, CNN reported.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron determined that Cosgrove fired the shot that fatally struck Taylor. However, Cameron also said that the shot was justified because Taylor's boyfriend fired at officers first.
Taylors boyfriend, Kenneth Walker II, said he thought that officers were intruders breaking into the home when he fired one shot after the door was broken down. This resulted in officers returning fire, according to Walker's attorney, CNN reported.
An LMPD Board Notice of Hearing is set to hear Cosgrove's appeal on Monday and end Wednesday. It also shared that part of the hearing took place in November.
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Detective Joshua Jaynes had written the search warrant to raid Taylor's home and was fired at the same time as Cosgrove. The Louisville Police Union called the firings "unjustified" at the time.
Before his termination, in September 2020, it was discovered that the former detective was attempting to fund his retirement through the "Christian crowdfunding site" GiveSendGo.
"Myles' reputation has been completely dismantled and the psychological trauma is something that he will have to cope with for the rest of his life," the fundraiser description reads. The campaign has raised over $75,000.
None of the officers in the raid were charged for Taylor's killing, however, one of the three officers was charged in connection with the shooting.
Brett Hankison was fired from the LMPD in June 2020 after Taylor's death in the botched raid on March 13, 2020. In September, a grand jury charged Hankison with three counts of felony wanton endangerment for firing 10 blind shots into Taylor's home.
Hankison has pleaded not guilty and is expected to stand trial in 2022. If convicted on all three charges, he would face anywhere from three to 15 years in prison.
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