Myles Cosgrove, who was fired by the Police Department in Louisville, Ky. after the fatal raid on Ms. Taylor’s apartment has a new job in Carroll County in Northern Kentucky. The police detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor raided her apartment in Louisville, Ky., has been hired by a small county sheriff’s office in the state, Myles Cosgrove, one of two officers who shot Breonna Taylor in March 2020, was hired by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.

The Carroll county police department said,“we think he will help reduce the flow of drugs in our area and reduce property crimes”. Miller the police officer said, “we felt like he was a good candidate to help us in our county.” Miller also said that Mr..Cosgrove had nearly two decades of experience in the police force. An F.B.I. report found that he had fired the shot that killed Ms. Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency room technician who had hoped to become a nurse.Carrollton, the county seat of Carroll County, About twenty-four people had protested about the hiring outside of the county courthouse, including Morgan Zeyak, who said she feared that the department had hired a “trigger-happy” officer. “I hope we get him out of his position,” said Ms. Zeyak, 21, who is Black and lives in Carrollton. “I don’t feel comfortable with him on the police force.”

 Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer who lives in Louisville said she was disgusted to learn that Mr. Cosgrove would again be working as a police officer. “When are these cops going to stop protecting bad cops?”, she exclaimed. “The people in that county have now got a killer with a badge they’ve got to deal with.” Its very unfortunate that he got hired again. I know that the people in the county are probably terrified now that they have an officer like that.