Police in Louisville, Kentucky, released a nearly-blank incident report Wednesday from the Police also checked "no" next to the box that says "forced entry" on the form, but witnesses and crime scene photos show officers used a battering ram to force entry into the apartment while Taylor was asleep.Multiple attempts by CBS News to contact the department about the report were unsuccessful.When officers were given the opportunity to explain how the fatal events of that night unfolded under the report's "notes/narrative" section, they wrote only "PIU investigation," for Public Integrity Unit.The unit is responsible for "monitoring or conducting criminal investigations of department members including all officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths," according to the Louisville Metro Police Department's Louisville mayor Greg Fischer responded to the report, saying: "It's issues like these that erode public confidence in Louisville's police department, and its ability to do its job." Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. ""Full stop. The rest of the report has no information filled in at all. Now, the Louisville Metro Police Department will change its policy to … "Inaccuracies in the report are unacceptable to us, and we are taking immediate steps to correct the report and to ensure the accuracy of incident reports going forward," a statement said.Mayor Greg Fischer issued a statement Wednesday night calling the report "unacceptable. Jon Mattingly, 47; Myles Cosgrove, 42; and Brett Hankison, 44.The "narrative" of events March 13 says only "PIU investigation."
"I am sorry for the additional pain to the Taylor family and our community.
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Walker said he thought intruders were trying to break in and fired a shot that struck Mattingly in the leg.Mattingly, Hankison and Cosgrove are on administrative reassignment pending the investigation. The police department acknowledged errors in the report that it said were the result of the reporting program creating a paper file. Under extreme national pressure, Louisville Police finally released a bare-bones incident report on the raid which killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor.
The officers involved have not been fired.
Despite the fact that the 26 … Louisville, Courier Journal, "Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report. He also apologized to the Taylor family for causing them further pain.This is unacceptable.
The detective who requested the warrant, Joshua Jaynes, was also reassigned, LMPD announced Wednesday.“This document is proof that LMPD continues to make a mockery of transparency,” said Jon Fleischaker, counsel for the Louisville Courier Journal of the USA TODAY Network and one of the principal authors of the state’s open records law that requires the release of public documents in all but extremely rare circumstances.“Under the Fischer administration, there has been a consistent policy and practice of refusing to tell the public what is going on with the police, regardless of how inappropriate the officer conduct has been," Fleischaker said.Fleischaker said city leaders "are refusing to honor their obligations to disclose the basic information necessary for the citizens of Louisville to have a meaningful debate about what needs to change.