Even if Myles Cosgrove were to become the upstanding law enforcement official on whom Miller has wagered his community’s lives, a damning message has already been sent nationwide, says SpeakPatrice.
Twenty-seven months after he was fired, former Louisville police officer Myles Cosgrove is back on the job like he never shot Breonna Taylor. Cosgrove recently startedIn defending the controversial hire, Carroll County Chief Deputy Rob Millerof Louisville that state and federal investigations had cleared Cosgrove of any criminal charges.
It’s giving no harm, no foul, justifying a delusional, dangerous gamble made not at his or Cosgrove’s expense but against Black women’s lives, in which they both clearly see no worth. At no point did Miller mention any training or rehabilitation, any attempts by Cosgrove to reckon with his snuffing out an innocent life
The Louisville Metro Police Department fired Cosgrove for failing to properly “identify a target” while shooting 16 rounds into Taylor’s apartment the previous year during a botched narcotics raid, violating the department’s use-of-force procedures, and failing to use a body camera. But he remained eligible to police in Kentucky, as the“We think he will help reduce the flow of drugs in our area and reduce property crimes,” Miller said of Cosgrove on Sunday.
This hiring also foregrounds that Taylor’s killing does not exist in isolation. Charleena Lyles, 30, a pregnant woman with a documented mental illness, was shot after she called the cops to her Seattle home. A jury
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