Protests are planned for Monday (April 24) after the terminated Louisville Metro Police officer who fired the fatal shot that killed Breonna Taylor in a botched police raid now has another law enforcement job.

Local station WHAS reported Saturday (April 22) that Kentucky’s Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, located northeast of Louisville, confirmed that they gave Myles Cosgrove a job, dismissing evidence that he violated use-of-force procedures and failed to use a body camera during the raid.

News of Cosgrove’s new position comes just two months after a Jefferson County judge upheld his termination from the Louisville police. Cosgrove was fired from the LMPD in January 2021 for failing to properly identify a threat before shooting more than a dozen shots into Taylor’s apartment. A police merit board voted 5-2 to uphold his termination.

"Even normal citizens must exercise the 'highest degree of care' in ascertaining whether they are shooting at a legitimate target. Cosgrove seems to be arguing that he should be held to a less stringent standard than an ordinary Kentucky resident, despite having considerably more legal privileges. A normal citizen who violated these principles could be subject to criminal liability," Judge Melissa Bellows wrote.

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were in bed when they were startled by a banging on her apartment door around midnight on March 13, 2020. Police, with a drug warrant, used a battering ram to break down the door.

Walker, thinking an intruder was in the apartment, fired a shot from his handgun at the officers. Officer Jonathan Mattingly was struck in the leg, and the officers returned a hail of gunfire, killing Taylor.

A federal investigation concluded that Cosgrove fired 16 times in a chaotic scene, including the round that killed Taylor, according to The Associated Press. Still, Mattingly and Cosgrove were cleared of any federal charges and a 2020 state grand jury didn’t charge them either. However, the FBI found that other officers in the department fabricated information to obtain a faulty drug warrant.

Carroll County’s Chief Deputy Robert Miller defended the decision to hire Cosgrove by pointing out that he was not charged with a crime connected to Taylor’s death.

“This is what we are talking about when we call cops white supremacists and a ‘good ole Boy’s club,’” a social media post stated. “They don’t protect and serve anyone but themselves.”