Kentucky AG Releases Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings

On Friday, the Kentucky attorney general’s office released 15 hours of audio from the grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case. The grand jury had decided the previous week not to charge the two officers who shot Taylor and to charge another officer with wanton endangerment for firing into a neighboring apartment. In the recordings, the officers testified that they had knocked and announced themselves multiple times; Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, maintained that he and Taylor did not know who knocked when police forced the door open, prompting Walker to fire his gun. Among other things, the recordings also reveal that Louisville police did not have an official plan for raiding Taylor’s apartment other than a list on a whiteboard. Outlets on all sides featured reporting on the audio, with some outlets posting multiple news articles on the story and specific witness statements. Few major trends distinguished between coverage in left- and right-rated outlets.