Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings: Officers Testified They Knocked Before Entering

The Kentucky attorney general’s office released recordings of the grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case Friday, including officers’ testimony that they repeatedly knocked and announced themselves before entering her apartment.

That issue is one of several points of contention in the wake of the grand jury’s decision last week in the case of Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman killed in March by Louisville police executing a search warrant at her apartment. The grand jury indicted one officer—former Detective Brett Hankison—on charges of wanton endangerment for firing into a neighboring apartment, but not the two officers—Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove—who officials say fatally shot Ms. Taylor.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron has faced criticism for his handling of the case. Attorneys for Ms. Taylor’s family questioned whether Mr. Cameron presented all of the evidence and gave the grand jury the opportunity to consider homicide charges against the officers, or if his office decided on its own that such charges were unwarranted.