⁍ A Kentucky grand juror said on Tuesday that the state attorney general did not present the jury a case for potential homicide charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor by police officers.
⁍ The grand jury in September recommended no homicide charges against the three white officers in the case.
⁍ The outcome stoked days of protests over the use of excessive force by police against blacks and minorities.
– A juror on a grand jury in Kentucky that declined to indict three white police officers in the fatal shooting of a black woman says the state attorney general didn’t present the jury with a case for homicide charges, the AP reports. According to Reuters, the juror says the attorney general only asked the grand jury to indict one of the officers, Brett Hankison, for firing into a neighbor’s apartment, not for killing Breonna Taylor, who was asleep in her apartment with her boyfriend. The juror says the grand jury only indicted Hankison for wanton endangerment for firing into the neighbor’s apartment, not for killing Taylor. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron says he will not appeal the judge’s ruling. “Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone,” Cameron says. “I asked the grand jury for an indictment on charges that could be proven under Kentucky law. Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.” A lawyer for Taylor’s family says Cameron “failed to do and seek justice for Breonna Taylor.” Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing into the neighbor’s apartment.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-louisville/breonna-taylor-grand-juror-says-kentucky-ag-did-not-present-homicide-charges-idUSKBN2752QF