The attorney representing Breonna Taylor's family requested this Friday that the Kentucky attorney general release the transcript of the investigations that led to criminal charges against a former police officer for reckless behavior
but not for the death of the young woman
.
Benjamin Crump claimed that Taylor's family "is heartbroken, confused, and bewildered" after charges were brought against former police officer Brett Hankison, who
was not charged with the young woman's death, and neither were the other two officers
who They entered his home on March 13 and fired eight shots that took his life.
Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor.AP
At a news conference in Louisville, the family's first public appearance after the grand jury indictment in which Hankinson was indicted, Crump demanded that the attorney general, Daniel Cameron, present evidence.
"Did he present any evidence in favor of Breonna Taylor or did he make a unilateral decision to put his thumb on the scales of justice to try to exonerate and justify (the murder) committed by those policemen?" Crump questioned.
"
Release the transcript!
" Said the lawyer repeatedly in a phrase that was chanted by those present at the press conference.
Taylor's mother assured that the prosecution failed her daughter for lack of investigation, and said she did not expect prosecutor Cameron to deliver justice.
"I never had faith in him,"
Tamika Palmer wrote in a message read by Taylor's aunt, Bianca Austin.
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On Wednesday, a Kentucky grand jury filed charges against one of three police officers who entered the home on the night of March 13 where Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, 27, were sleeping.
Ben Crump, the attorney for Breonna Taylor's family, this afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky.
The family assures that they did not identify themselves, a reason that would have led Walker to believe that they were intruders, to whom he responded with a shot that wounded one of the policemen.
Then the shooting started.
Taylor, who was unarmed, was shot eight times and lost her life
.
According to prosecutor Cameron, two of the policemen, Johnathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, "used justified force after being shot by Kenneth Walker."
The third, Hankison, acted with "reckless recklessness", shooting blindly and endangering Taylor's neighbors, which is why he will be prosecuted.
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The family's attorney said he hopes
a parallel federal investigation will deliver justice to the family
for the death of the 26-year-old black woman that Cameron's investigation failed to achieve.
"We hope that the FBI investigation finally does justice for Breonna and her family," the lawyer wrote on his Twitter account after hearing the charges.
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Taylor's death, as well as that of other black people as a result of police brutality, such as George Floyd or Jacob Blake, has sparked a series of protests in Kentucky and other parts of the country, some of which have ended with clashes between protesters. and the police.
Across the country, hundreds of people took to the streets in recent days to protest against the court ruling in which none of the three Louisville police officers were charged with murder.