Update 09/15/2020 4:48pm:

Benjamin Crump, one of the attorneys representing Breonna Taylor's family, reacted to the $12 million settlement the city of Louisville reached in the wrongful death lawsuit for the 26-year-old EMT, who was killed by police during a no-knock warrant earlier this year. 

Crump revealed that the settlement is the "largest amount ever paid out for a Black woman in a wrongful death killed police in America and maybe the largest amount ever paid for a Black person." 

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer spoke at the same press conference and revealed that the settlement includes a major police reform package. Fischer stated that he hopes the series of police department reforms "to prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again." Officers will be offered a housing credit program to incentivize them to live in certain low-income census tracts in the city, which aims to improve connections between police and the communities they serve. The city will also institute an "early warning system" to track all use-of-force incidents and citizen complaints.

Original 09/15/2020 10:21am:

The city of Louisville, Kentucky has reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old EMT who was killed earlier this year when police served a no-knock warrant at her apartment while she was sleeping. 

Taylor family attorney Sam Aguilar commented on the settlement, stating, "The city's response, in this case, has been delayed and it's been frustrating, but the fact that they've been willing to sit down and talk significant reform was a step in the right direction and hopefully a turning point."

A source close to the situation revealed to CNN that the agreement was "a multimillion-dollar settlement." A joint press conference with the Taylor family attorneys and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer is expected to take place this morning (September 15), where the settlement will be officially revealed. 

Police reports reveal that officers believed Taylor was home alone when they broke down the door to her apartment on March 13 while executing a warrant during a narcotics investigation. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was also at the apartment, and he returned fire on the 3 plainclothes officers after they entered, as he believed they were breaking in. 

None of the three officers who broke in Taylor's apartment have been charged with a crime, but Brett Hankinson was fired in late June for "wantonly and blindly" firing 10 rounds into her apartment. Louisville police chief Steve Conrad was fired shortly after Black business owner David McAtee was killed by officers amid protests for Taylor's death. The Louisville city council also passed "Breonna's Law," which banned no-knock search warrants.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron addressed ongoing questions about the investigation of Taylor's death on Twitter last week, writing, "My office is continually asked about a timeline regarding the investigation into the death of Ms. Breonna Taylor. An investigation, if done properly, cannot follow a specific timeline." 

Source: CNN