Myles Cosgrove, fired officer who shot Breonna Taylor, hired as deputy
The former Louisville Metro police officer who lost his job for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor is back working in law enforcement in a nearby county.
Myles Cosgrove, who fired 16 shots into the 26-year-old EMT’s apartment during a botched no-knock raid in 2020, has been hired as a deputy for the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, WLKY reported.
Despite Cosgrove being canned by the LMPD in 2021 over Taylor’s death, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council voted last November not to revoke his state peace officer certificate, allowing Cosgrove to apply to the sheriff’s office just an hour away from Louisville.
Cosgrove and the two other white officers who were fired for violating use-of-force procedures and failure to use a body camera were never charged by a grand jury.
Carroll County Chief Deputy Robert Miller pointed to that fact in response to why the sheriff’s office hired Cosgrove.
Miller added that Cosgrove was hired last Thursday and has already been put on active duty. Miller also acknowledged that the hiring could be controversial, but that the department was willing to “give him a chance.”
Investigators said Cosgrove was among the three officers who fired into Taylor’s home on March 13, 2020, as they were executing a narcotics search related to an ex-boyfriend.
Cosgrove fired 16 rounds into the Louisville apartment after the officers breached the front door and Taylor’s new boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at them.
Investigators believe the shot that killed Taylor came from Cosgrove’s gun.
After he was fired, Cosgrove tried to sue the Louisville Metro Police Merit Board for allegedly violating due process when it upheld the decision to give him the boot.
A circuit court, however, upheld the decision, ending Cosgrove’s chances to get his job back in Louisville.
Taylor’s death sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests across America just months before the movement hit its peak over the death of George Floyd.
Protests have reportedly been planned in Carroll County on Monday over Cosgrove’s hiring.
