Before Breonna Taylor, there's a depressingly long list of black women who were killed in their own homes or homes they were visiting during unjust or unnecessary police raids.

Here's a thread of the cases I've compiled over the years ...

1. In 1992, police shot and killed Annie Rae Dixon, 84, during a raid on her home. The raid turned up no drugs. Dixon was a paraplegic, and bedridden with pneumonia at the time. The officer who killed her said his gun accidentally discharged after he kicked open her bedroom door.

2. In 2007, a Lima, OH SWAT team shot and killed Tarika Wilson, 26, during a raid. She was holding her 1-year-old son at the time. He too was shot, but survived. The officer later claimed he shot Wilson after he mistook another officer killing the family dog for hostile gunfire.

3. In 2006, Atlanta police lied to get a warrant, then mistakenly raided Kathryn Johnston, 92. As they broke down her door, Johnston pulled a rusty revolver. After shooting her, instead of calling her an ambulance, they let her bleed out and tried to plant pot in her basement.

4. Alberta Spruill, 57, died of a heart attack in 2003 after police set off flash grenades in a no-knock raid based on an informant's tip. The police did nothing to corroborate the tip. The following year, NYPD received more than 1,000 complaints about mistaken raids.

5. In 2008, FBI agents raided the home of Laquisha Turner, looking for her brother. He no longer lived there. Agents deployed flash grenades, then left Turner, a quadriplegic, in the room with the smoke while they questioned her mother. Turner became ill shortly thereafter and...

...died a month later. Her mother told local media outlets she died from complications related to smoke inhalation.

6. Geraldine Townsend, 72, was shot and killed during a raid on her home. Police suspected her son of selling marijuana. Police broke down her door seconds after announcing. Townsend, asleep, grabbed a pellet gun, at which point an officer shot her in the chest.

7. SC Police killed Lori Jean Ellis, 52, in 2010 after breaking into her home at 11pm on warrants for a bounced check and driving w/ a suspended license. They claimed they killed her b/c they heard gunfire and saw a muzzle flash/smoke from a gun. Ellis owned only a pellet gun.

8. Lilian Weiss, 65, and her husband Lloyd Smalley died of smoke inhalation in 1989 after a flash grenade deployed by Minneapolis police during a drug raid burned their house to the ground. They appear to have raided the wrong house.

9. Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 8, was killed when police raided her home in search of a murder suspect who lived in the unit upstairs. Police deployed a flashbang which set Jones and the couch she was sleeping on aflame. She was also shot by an officer who claimed ...

.. Jones' grandmother slapped at his gun. The police were accompanied by a camera crew from the TV show The First 48, based on the premise that murders are usually solved within 48 hours, or not at all.

10. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was shot and killed in 2019 while babysitting her nephew. A neighbot called Ft. Worth police who noticed an open door. Jefferson heard noises outside and grabbed a handgun. The officer saw her with the gun through a window and fired, killer her.

11. Lynette Gail Jackson called police after her home had been burglarized. While investigating, the police found a small amount of cocaine, which belonged to her boyfriend. Police then raided her home a few weeks later, looking for the boyfriend. Since the burglary ...

... Jackson had armed herself. She was holding her gun when the police stormed in. They opened fire, killing her.

12. In 1984, a L.A. SWAT team raided the home of Lessie Haynesworth. Officers deployed a series of flashbang grenades, one of which landed between Haynesworth and a wall. The impact broke several ribs and tore Haynesworth's lung. She later died from her injuries.

If you know of other examples I've missed, please add them in the replies.