Kentucky AG Releases Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings
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A door busted open. A chaotic scene. A life taken. What the Breonna Taylor grand jury audio revealsThe 26-year-old EMT and aspiring nurse was in her bedroom with her boyfriend when the Louisville Metro Police Department officers, in plain clothes, arrived just after midnight.
The officers, executing a narcotics warrant, told investigators they knocked and announced themselves before using a battering ram to bash the door to Breonna Taylor's South End apartment off its hinges that chaotic March night.
Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, and his lawyer have maintained that he didn't know who was entering the Springfield Drive apartment and that he fired once. Kentucky's...
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Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings: Officers Testified They Knocked Before EnteringThe 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...
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Hours of Breonna Taylor grand jury audio recordings releasedHours of audio recordings from grand-jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case were made public Friday, giving a rare glimpse into what the Kentucky panel heard before it returned no indictments against cops for her killing.
One of the officers who shot Taylor described in recorded testimony the chaotic scene he found himself in when he walked into the apartment.
The cop, Detective Myles Cosgrove, said he saw a barrage of flashing lights and that he was “overwhelmed” with bright flashes and darkness.
He added that he saw a shadowy...
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