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Breonna Taylor: request transcripts of the grand jury

2020-09-25T21:17:49.573Z


An attorney for Breonna Taylor's family, Benjamin Crump, requested that the transcript of the grand jury proceedings be released.


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Breonna Taylor's mother says this week's announcement that no agent was charged in her daughter's death "confirmed" to her why she has no faith in the legal system.

Tamika Palmer wrote a letter read Friday during a fiery press conference in which her attorneys asked the Kentucky Attorney General to release the transcript of the grand jury proceedings related to Taylor's death.

"I confirmed Wednesday why I have no faith in the legal system, in the police, in the law, that they are not made to protect us blacks and brunettes," Palmer wrote in a letter read by his sister, Bianca Austin.

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When I talk about it, I am considered an angry black woman.

But know this: I am an angry black woman, ”says Palmer's letter.

I'm not angry for the reasons you'd like me to be.

But angry that our black women continue to die at the hands of the police.

Protests erupted in Louisville and across the country after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that a grand jury did not directly charge three officers in Taylor's death, more than six months after the police shot him at his home while executing a search warrant.

The grand jury indicted an officer on charges of putting someone in aggravated danger, accusing him of firing blind shots that penetrated the walls of a neighbor's apartment.

The FBI has said it is investigating Taylor's death separately.

At Friday's press conference, an attorney for Taylor's family, Benjamin Crump, asked Cameron to release the transcript of the grand jury proceedings.

"The entire Breonna Taylor family is heartbroken ... and confused and mystified, as are all of us, as to what Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron presented to the grand jury," Crump said at Jefferson Square Park in New York. Louisville.

"Did you present any evidence in favor of Breonna Taylor, or did you make a unilateral decision to put your thumb on the scales of justice to help try to exonerate and justify (the murder) of these cops?"

Crump said.

"Free the transcript!"

Crump asserted repeatedly, leading a crowd in chant.

Palmer also wrote that she "never had faith in Daniel Cameron to begin with."

"I knew that he had already chosen to be on the wrong side of the law by the time he wanted the grand jury to make the decision," says Palmer's letter, according to Austin.

What I was hoping was that he knew he had the power to do the right thing.

"It helped me realize that it will always be us against them, that we will never be safe when it comes to them."

Earlier, Crump said Friday that he is counting on the federal investigation to get justice.

"We hope that the FBI investigation will finally obtain justice for Bre and her family," Crump tweeted.

Grand jury proceedings are generally kept secret to encourage candor from witnesses and jurors, prosecutors and legal experts say.

Exceptions have included the release of grand jury proceedings in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, and former Kentucky Assistant Attorney General John W. Stewart have also called for the grand jury transcripts to be released.

Louisville Mayor Extends City Curfew

After another night of protests Thursday, the Louisville mayor said he will extend the city's curfew for the weekend to balance "the rights of people to peacefully protest with the duty to protect public safety."

On Thursday night, after a nearly two-hour peaceful sit-in between Louisville Metro Police Department officers and protesters on church property, police moved to allow the protesters to go home.

At least 24 people were arrested, Louisville police said.

Some people from the protest broke windows in a restaurant, damaged some public transport buses and threw a flare at a library, breaking windows there, according to police.

During a protest Wednesday night, two Louisville police officers were shot and injured that were not life-threatening, police said.

Both are expected to recover, according to Acting LMPD Police Chief Robert Schroeder.

A 26-year-old suspect was arrested.

He faces two counts of first degree assault on an officer and 14 counts of endangering a police officer.

About 130 people were arrested in connection with the protests on Wednesday night, police said.

What led to Taylor's death?

The incident that killed Taylor began with a narcotics investigation on March 13.

Then-Detective Brett Hankison, Sergeant John Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove were executing a search warrant at Taylor's home, although her ex-boyfriend was the focus of the investigation.

His ex-boyfriend was later arrested on drug charges.

Taylor's family and her attorney have said that she was not involved in her ex-boyfriend's alleged drug deals.

Taylor was sleeping next to her current boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, in the early hours of March 13, when they heard a noise, she told investigators.

They both got up and walked to the door.

"She screams at the top of her lungs - and so do I at that point - 'Who is it?'

Walker reminded investigators.

"Unanswered.

Unanswered.

Without anything."

Police forced entry into the home and Walker said he could not see, but fired a shot.

After entering, Mattingly was shot in the leg, Attorney General Cameron said Wednesday.

Hankison was charged by his own department with blindly firing 10 bullets into Taylor's apartment from an outdoor patio.

Hankison was fired in June, the Louisville police chief said, and appealed his firing.

Cameron argued that the officers were "justified in the use of force" because Taylor's boyfriend fired first.

Steve Romines, Walker's attorney, also disputed Cameron's claim, telling CNN Thursday morning: "That's what a jury is for."

Hankison, charged with aggravated endangerment charges, will plead not guilty, his attorney, Stew Matthews, told CNN.

The former police officer was booked into the Shelby County Jail, posted a $ 15,000 bond and was released, Matthews said.

CNN's Elizabeth Joseph, Aaron Cooper, Anna Sturla, Steve Almasy, Dakin Andone, Jamiel Lynch, Laura Dolan, and Satyam Kaswala contributed to this report.

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Source: cnnespanol

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