Officer Indicted for 'Wanton Endangerment' In Breonna Taylor Case
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From the Right
Louisville: Protests Break Out, Gear Unloaded from U-Haul After No Murder Charges in Breonna Taylor CaseProtesters took to the streets of Louisville Wednesday after a Kentucky grand jury did not bring murder charges against any of the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. A pair of videos shared to social media shows protesters unloaded shields and signs from a U-Haul truck. It is unclear who rented the truck. One shield read “BLM” in red, while another one had the phrase, “Protect Black Women.”
From the Center
Louisville police officers cleared of criminal charges in Breonna Taylor deathTwo white policemen who fired into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, will not be prosecuted for her death because their use of force was justified, but a third was charged with endangering her neighbors, Kentucky’s attorney general said on Wednesday. Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the Louisville grand jury’s decision at a news conference as protesters against racial injustice and police brutality massed in the streets of Kentucky’s largest city.
Former Detective Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree,...
From the Left
Actions of officer who killed Breonna Taylor ruled ‘justified’; another indicted on wanton endangerment chargeA grand jury in Jefferson County, Ky., has indicted a former Louisville police detective on three charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree in the March 13 shooting death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. Brett Hankison, one of three officers involved, was fired by the department in June, with a termination letter saying he “wantonly and blindly” shot 10 times into Taylor’s apartment.
Taylor’s name became a rallying cry for policing overhauls and racial justice as the Black Lives Matter movement swept the United States this summer.
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