re: City of Louisville agrees to settlement as high as $12 million in Breonna Taylor shooting

LMPD has cost this city so much fricking money in lawsuits the last few years. This is just the tip of the iceberg how much their negligence has cost taxpayers.

The city is at least starting to try to hold these officers responsible financially (within the means of the FOP contract).

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The city's decision to sue individual officers also comes as the police department faces national scrutiny over the fatal March police shooting of Breonna Taylor, with activists and civil rights leaders calling for three officers involved in the raid on her apartment to be criminally charged.

And the city is also facing dozens of pending lawsuits against police, including seven against officers concerning accusations of sexual abuse and cover-up in the department's youth Explorer program.

The Marlowe lawsuit surprised the Louisville Fraternal Order of Police union and even the lawyers who sued Marlowe, who claim the city is abandoning the former officer and trying to get out of paying damages.

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WDRB article on the city suing officers from August