作为一名联邦法官权衡司法部撤销指控的请求针对两名前警察，他们的行动与2020年3月13日杀害布雷翁娜·泰勒的袭击有关，她的母亲批评了DOJ的举动，并呼吁这些警察被追究“责任”
泰勒的母亲塔米卡·帕尔默在周二接受美国广播公司新闻直播节目主持人林西·戴维斯的采访时说:“她是因为他们的谎言和疏忽而被杀害的，有人应该为此负责。”。
司法部在周五的一份文件中要求联邦法院撤销对约书亚·杰恩斯(Joshua Jaynes)和凯尔·米尼(Kyle Meany)的指控，这两名前路易斯维尔警察在2022年被指控在搜查令上提供虚假信息，导致2020年警方对泰勒公寓的致命袭击。他们还被指控侵犯公民权利。
杰恩斯的律师特拉维斯·洛克(Travis Lock)周六告诉美国广播公司(ABC News)，我们对这一进展感到高兴。
Meany的律师Michael Denbow周二告诉ABC新闻，他的当事人对DOJ撤销指控的请求“非常感激”，并“期待将此事抛在脑后，继续自己的生活”
当被问及警官律师的声明时，帕尔默说，“布里奥纳不会回来了。她不能把它放在身后，”她补充说，对她来说，“每天”都是3月13日，她的女儿被杀。
“这是我无法忘记的，”她说。
联邦检察官声称，杰恩斯和米尼在搜查证上提供了虚假信息，允许便衣路易斯维尔警察进入泰勒在路易斯维尔的家，以执行禁止毒品搜查令，因为他们搜查了泰勒的前男友，但他当时不在家。
警察破门进入泰勒的公寓，她当时的男友肯尼斯·沃克认为有人闯入家中，用手枪开了一枪，击中了一名警察的腿。另外三名警察还击，向公寓开了32枪。
“政府对此事进行了进一步调查，”DOJ在周五的文件中表示。“根据这一审查，并在行使其酌处权时，政府决定，为了公正起见，应驳回这一案件。”
周二，帕尔默和她的律师洛尼塔·贝克一起接受了采访，她说，在得知DOJ要求撤销指控后，她感到“困惑”和“愤怒”。
“Breonna没有做错什么，说撒谎和讲任何你想打破别人的门的故事都是可以的，这是不可接受的，”她说。
当被问及帕尔默的评论时，DOJ的一名发言人在周二的一份声明中告诉ABC新闻，对这些官员的指控代表着“不适当的、武器化的联邦越权”
这位发言人说:“枪击发生时，这两名警察都不在场，地方法院已经多次驳回了最严重的指控，认为这些指控完全没有根据。”。“这些案件代表了司法部不再容忍的那种不适当的、武器化的联邦越权行为。”
贝克说，如果对警官的指控被撤销，泰勒的家人呼吁州政府起诉他们。肯塔基州此前拒绝对杰恩斯和米尼提出指控。
“他们应该被追究责任，司法部驳回这些指控是非常令人失望和虚伪的，”贝克说。
DOJ周五提交申请之前，一名联邦法官曾两次驳回对杰恩斯和米尼的重罪指控，将它们降为轻罪，最近一次是在2025年。
剩下的指控最终是否被撤销取决于一名联邦法官，他还没有做出裁决。
ABC新闻联系了杰恩斯和米尼的律师，请他们进一步置评。
前路易斯维尔警官布雷特·汉克森(Brett Hankison)因与泰勒在突袭中的死亡有关而被判侵犯公民权利罪，并被判处两年零九个月监禁。
Breonna Taylor's mother criticizes DOJ's request to dismiss charges against officers
As a federal judge weighsthe Department of Justice's request to dismiss chargesagainst two former police officers whose actions are tied to the March 13, 2020, raid that killed Breonna Taylor, her mother has criticized the DOJ's move and called for those officers to be held "accountable."
"She was killed because of their lies and negligence, and somebody should be held accountable for that," Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer said in a Tuesday interview with ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.
The Justice Department asked a federal court in a filing on Friday to drop charges against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany -- two former Louisville police officers who were charged in 2022 with providing false information on a search warrant that led to the fatal 2020 police raid at Taylor's apartment. They were also charged with civil rights violations.
"We are elated with this development," Travis Lock, an attorney for Jaynes, told ABC News on Saturday.
Meany's attorney Michael Denbow told ABC News on Tuesday that his client is "incredibly grateful" for the DOJ's request to dismiss the charges and is "looking forward to putting this matter behind him and moving forward with his life."
Asked about the statements from the officer's attorneys, Palmer said, "Breonna doesn't get to come back. She doesn't get to put it behind her," adding that for her, "every day" has been March 13 when her daughter was killed.
"There's no putting it behind me," she said.
Federal prosecutors alleged that Jaynes and Meany provided false information on the search warrant that allowed plainclothes Louisville police officers to enter Taylor's Louisville home to serve a no-knock drug warrant as they searched for a former boyfriend of Taylor's who was not present at the home.
Officers broke down the door to Taylor's apartment, and her then-current boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who thought someone was breaking into the home, fired one shot with a handgun, striking an officer in the leg. Three other officers returned fire, shooting 32 bullets into the apartment.
"The Government undertook a further review of this matter," the DOJ said in the Friday filing. "Based on that review, and in the exercise of its discretion, the Government has determined that this case should be dismissed in the interest of justice."
Palmer, who was joined by her attorney Lonita Baker for the interview on Tuesday, said she was "confused" and "mad" after learning about the DOJ's request to dismiss the charges.
"Breonna did nothing wrong, and to say that it's OK to lie and tell whatever story you want to break down someone's door is unacceptable," she said.
Asked about Palmer's comments, a spokesperson for the DOJ told ABC News in a statement on Tuesday that the charges against the officers represented "inappropriate, weaponized federal overreach."
"Neither of these officers was present during the shooting, and a district court has already repeatedly dismissed the most serious charges as completely unsupportable," the spokesperson said. "These cases represented the kind of inappropriate, weaponized federal overreach that this Department of Justice no longer tolerates."
Baker said that if charges are dropped against the officers, Taylor's family is calling on the state to prosecute them. The state of Kentucky previously declined to file charges against Jaynes and Meany.
"They should be held accountable, and it's very disappointing and disingenuous for the Department of Justice to dismiss these charges," Baker said.
The DOJ's filing on Friday came after a federal judge had twice struck down felony charges against the Jaynes and Meany, reducing them to misdemeanors, most recently in 2025.
Whether the remaining charges are ultimately dropped is up to a federal judge, who has yet to issue a ruling.
ABC News reached out to attorneys for Jaynes and Meany for further comment.
A former Louisville officer, Brett Hankison, was convicted of a civil rights offense in connection with Taylor's death during the raid and sentenced to two years and nine months in prison.
