KENTUCKY POLICE officer Myles Cosgrove, who shot and killed unarmed Black woman Breonna Taylor in her own home in March 2020, has been re-hired as a deputy in a nearby county.

Cosgrove was one of seven officers present during the raid on 26-year old Taylor’s apartment, whose death sparked protests nationwide, and globally, demanding officers be held to account and that systemic racism evidenced within policing be tackled.

A subsequent investigation concluded that it was Cosgrove’s bullets which killed Taylor.

Cosgrove, who was not wearing bodycam during the incident, was sacked by Louisville police in 2021, for ‘violating procedure’.

His new appointment has rightly angered all those who tirelessly campaigned and marched in the pursuit of justice for Taylor and her family.

The news of the re-appointment of Cosgrove comes in the same week as Kim Potter, the Minneapolis police officer who killed 20-year-old black man Daunte Wright in April 2021, was quietly released from prison after serving only 16 months in prison for fatally shooting the father of one.

The corrections department, speaking about the release of the disgraced 50-year-old former officer said Potter was released at 4am local time “out of an abundance of caution” for Potter’s safety.

At the time of Potter’s sentencing of 2 years imprisonment, Daunte Wright’s mother, Katie Wright said that Potter “murdered” Wright arguing that “the justice system murdered him all over again.”

According to the data, black Americans are almost three times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts, despite officially representing approximately 13% of the US population.

President Joe Biden, who recently announced plans to run for a second term in office, has increasingly come under fire over a lack of action on police reform, despite winning the keys to the White House largely with the backing of black voters.