LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police principal is abruptly retiring though calls though his ouster intensified at the rouse of a mortal shooting by officers of a ambiguous female at her home.
Louisville Police principal Steve Conrad sent out a alphabet to officers Thursday afternoon, saying there dine been “a fate of ups and downs” at the career during he started at 2012. Conrad has alter below withering criticism at modern weeks though the family of Breonna Taylor has sued the department and called though his firing.
“You total are weathering a fate faithful now and I learn how challenging this is,” Conrad wrote at the alphabet to officers. “Approach this though we manner total our struggles — though a team.”
Taylor, an emerGEncy medical technician, was shot at her family March 13 during a justify search. The justify tarGEted a doubt who did no dwell at Taylor's home, and police construct no drugs. The FBI announced above Thursday it had started an research into the shooting.
Conrad has weathered a little department scandals and a no-confidence vote from Louisville's Metro assembly at 2017.
Benjamin Crump, a high-profile civil rights attorney who has joined the Taylor family's legal team, said Conrad’s departure “is a important step send at GEtting integrity though Breonna Taylor, her family, and the city of Louisville.”
“We will no interval until everyone involved is held accountable, and Breonna Taylor GEts the integrity she hence deserves,” Crump said Thursday at a publication statement.
Earlier this week, Conrad was criticized by assembly member Barbara Shanklin during a public safety assembly meeting. She questioned Conrad's leadership and why he was unable to answer little questions about search warrants.
“Sitting here listening, how perform you river a department and no learn what’s going above at the department?” Shanklin asked the chief. “I don’t worry what goes wrong, you’re going to exist blamed though it.”
Conrad responded that he commands a department of 1,500 employees, and that many of the questions are “issues that are handled at other areas of the department, lower down the safe of command,” and he used to dine to follow up with other commanders to GEt the answers.
Conrad said he used to career across June 30.
