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Police who shot Breonna Taylor raise money to retire

2020-09-30T23:11:57.776Z


The Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor is currently raising money to fund her retirement.


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(CNN) -

The Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor is currently raising money on an online platform to fund her retirement.

Detective Myles Cosgrove is one of three Louisville agents who shot at Taylor's apartment last March.

The incident occurred after breaking in to serve a search warrant related to Taylor's ex-boyfriend.

Taylor, an emergency medical technician, died of multiple gunshot wounds sustained in the failed raid.

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Now Cosgrove raises funds on the "Christian

crowdfunding

site

" GiveSendGo.

The goal is to be able to "buy the remainder of your service time" and retire, as described by the fundraiser.

She wants to focus on the safety of her family, who, according to the description, have been threatened since the protests broke out after Taylor's death.

"Myles's reputation has been completely dismantled and psychological trauma is something he will have to deal with for the rest of his life," reads the fundraising description.

Jarrod Beck, Cosgrove's attorney, confirmed to CNN that the page was created by members of Cosgrove's family, but declined to comment further.

CNN also reached out to GiveSendGo for comment on the campaign and is waiting for a response.

Police officer Breonna Taylor has already raised more than $ 9,000

Louisville Detective Myles Cosgrove is raising funds for his retirement on an online fundraising site.

The detective seeks to raise $ 75,000 and, as of Wednesday morning, had raised more than $ 9,000.

The

Louisville Courier Journal

was the first to report on the fundraiser.

Cosgrove and Officer Jonathan Mattingly were two of three police officers present the night of March 13 when Taylor died.

Neither man was formally charged for their actions that night.

However, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Cosgrove fired the fatal shot, which he said was justified because Taylor's boyfriend shot the officers first.

A third agent, Brett Hankison, has been charged with putting someone in aggravated danger by shooting blindly at an apartment that was occupied.

Hankison has pleaded not guilty.

Cameron told CNN affiliate WDRB that he was not seeking murder charges against Cosgrove or Mattingly.

The grand jury's decision to indict only one of the officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death, and a Class D felony, the lowest of four classes of felony offenses, outraged Louisville protesters.

Last week, two Louisville agents were shot at a protest and dozens of protesters, including Kentucky's only black lawmaker, were arrested.

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GiveSendGo has fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse and Kenosha's agent

GiveSendGo currently has fundraisers for two other accused shooters.

One is Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during protests against the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

The other is Rusten Sheskey, the Kenosha agent who shot Jacob Blake.

The campaigns have raised more than US $ 500,000 and US $ 30,000 respectively.

GiveSendGo did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CNN.

However, in a statement released after a backlash over the Rittenhouse fundraiser, GiveSendGo co-founder Heather Wilson addressed the issue.

The platform allows campaigns "even if we don't agree with them," he explained, as long as the funding methods are legal.

CNN's Ray Sanchez and Mark Morales contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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