In the section of the form where the officers were to give a narrative of what happened, it said, “PIU investigation,” for Public Integrity Unit. It said that the deceased had no injuries and that there was no forced entry. The four-page police incident report filed the night of the shooting was nearly blank. Twelve months later, the charges against Walker were dropped. Numerous witnesses said they heard no door knocking or announcement that night. While Walker said the police did not identify themselves before he fired his weapon, the officers claimed that they announced themselves before smashing down the door of the apartment. It began with Walker being arrested and charged with assault and attempted murder. Everything that happened from that point forward shows that the LMPD and local and state criminal justice officials did everything they could to sweep the murder of Taylor under the rug. In response, the officers returned a total of 32 shots, one of which struck Taylor in the head and killed her in the hallway of the apartment. Walker, who is also black, was legally in possession of a handgun and fired a warning shot at what he thought were intruders. The three officers, who are white, were serving a “no knock” warrant in connection with a drug investigation that night and used a battering ram to knock down the door of Taylor’s apartment while she and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were sleeping. Cosgrove, who fired 16 shots-six of which struck Breonna Taylor-and Mattingly, who fired six times, were found by Cameron to be justified in doing so. ![]() The fact that the only minor charges were brought against Hankison while the other two officers, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, were never charged at all by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron was a travesty of justice to begin with. The acquittal of Hankison is the latest chapter in the conspiracy by the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and the state of Kentucky to whitewash the raid and block the prosecution of the officers responsible for Taylor’s death. The Kentucky jury of eight men and four women deliberated for three hours following closing arguments on Thursday and after five days of the trial at Jefferson County Circuit Court that included testimony from some thirty witnesses. ![]() Breonna Taylor, 26, was killed by police when she was shot at least eight times during a "no-knock" search warrant of her apartment on March 13, 2020.įormer Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was acquitted of the three counts against him for recklessly firing ten shots through the patio door of Taylor’s apartment that night, three of which went through a wall shared by another apartment where a man, a pregnant woman and a 5-year-old boy were home.
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