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Two grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case say there was an uproar when they realized police officers wouldn’t be charged with her death, reports CNN.
“Was justice was done? No, I feel that there was there’s quite a bit more that could have been done or should have been presented for us to deliberate on,” Grand Juror 1, a White male, told reporters on a phone call Wednesday night.
Grand Juror 2, a Black male, said the grand jurors were “never given the opportunity to deliberate against any other charges.”
“We were open the whole time to listen to everything they presented, and it would have been nice if they had presented every charge, but they only presented those three charges,” Grand Juror 2 said, referring to charges of wanton endangerment brought against former Louisville Police Officer Brett Hankison.
“There was an uproar” when prosecutors announced those were the only charges being presented to the grand jury, said Grand Juror 1.
“When they finally did present the charges to us … almost of all of the people at once said, ‘Isn’t there anything else?'”
“There were a lot of questions,” he added. “We didn’t go right into deliberation on charges because we wanted to know what else was missing. … There was an uproar at the end, and it suggested to me that there were several other people who wanted to know more information.”
Taylor was shot and killed March 13 when police executed a search warrant after midnight at her apartment as part of a narcotics trafficking investigation.
Although the police had a “no-knock warrant” – meaning they had no obligation to identify themselves, they testified they did announce themselves before receiving no response and breaking down her door. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, responded by firing a shot and hitting one of the officers in the leg. Police returned fire, killing Taylor in a hallway. Walker was not struck by any bullets.
One of the officers who conducted the raid was fired, but an uproar by critics who claimed the shooting was an example of “systemic racism” by police, and society against Blacks in general, resulted in Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron conducting a grand jury investigation.
Grand jury proceedings are almost always confidential, but a Kentucky judge granted two of the grand jurors permission to speak publicly about the case after Grand Juror 1 filed court documents suggesting comments by Cameron about the proceedings were misleading.
This article was originally posted on Red Tea News.
