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Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, weeps during a news conference Tuesday announcing a $12 million civil settlement between the estate of Breonna Taylor and the City of Lousiville in Kentucky.

Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, weeps during a news conference Tuesday announcing a $12 million civil settlement between the estate of Breonna Taylor and the City of Lousiville in Kentucky.

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City of Louisville to pay the family of Breonna Taylor $12M to settle the wrongful death lawsuit filed after she was shot to death by police during a late-night raid of her home

Months after the police killing of Breonna Taylor thrust her name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race, the City of Louisville agreed to pay the Black woman’s family $12 million and reform police practices as part of a settlement announced Tuesday.