By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky city’s ban on no-knock warrants was struck down Thursday by the state’s highest court, which said it conflicted with a state law that limits but doesn’t prohibit such warrants during police raids.

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruling against the ordinance in Lexington raised questions about another local ban on no-knock warrants enacted in Louisville following Breonna Taylor ‘s death. No-knock warrants permit officers to serve a warrant without knocking or announcing themselves, and are typically used in drug raids so contraband can’t be hidden.

Taylor was shot by Louisville officers who burst into her home in March 2020 using a drug warrant. Taylor’s boyfriend shot at the officers as they burst in, an

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