Louisville, Q. – A Louisville police officer who shot Brayona Taylor after she was shot by her boyfriend said she “did not deserve to die.”
Sergeant. Jonathan Mattingley, a 26-year-old emergency medical worker who served a drug warrant from his bed, “did nothing to deserve the death penalty.”
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Mattingly spoke to ABC News and the Louisville Courier-Journal, his first media interview on the shooting that sparked weeks of protests in the city.
She said she and her fellow officers went to Taylor’s apartment to issue a warrant in a drug case that targeted her ex-boyfriend, and had to defend himself once he was fired.
“You want to do the right thing,” Mattingley said. “You want to be someone’s protector, not to hurt anyone’s family here. It’s not the will of anyone I’ve worked with. “
BREONNA TAYLOR Grand jury members say they did not appear with a charge of atrocity.
After Taylor’s current boyfriend, Kenneth W., shot Karen Mattingley in the leg, Mattingley and another officer, Miles Cosgrove, fired at the front entry of the part. Waker says he thinks the intruder came through the door. Taylor was shot five times and died on the spot.
Sergeant. Jonathan Mattingley (Louisville Metro Police Department)
A grand jury last month indicted a third officer, who also fired his gun at endangering Taylor’s neighbors, but none of the three were charged in Taylor’s death. On Tuesday, the anonymous grand jury won the court battle to speak in public and said the panel was not given the option to consider the charges related to Taylor’s death, as public prosecutors believe the authorities were justified in using force.
Mattingley, 44, said protests and media reports that improperly equated Taylor’s death after the shooting with the murders of George Floyd in Minnesota and Ahmed Arbury in Georgia.
“It’s not about a race like people want to try to be. It is not, ”he said. “This is not ours, someone is hunting down. This is not a neck brace. It’s nothing like that. “
A grand jury in the Brona Taylor case said Tuesday that the panel has not been presented with cow-killing charges for the three officers involved in his death. (Courtesy Taylor Family Attorney Sam Aguer AP, File)
Floyd died on May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer knelt in his neck for more than eight minutes. On February 23, Arbury was jogging in the neighborhood when two white men shot him dead.
The meeting said misinformation about the March 13 shooting spread quickly and said the city and police leaders should have acted more quickly to remove “false descriptions” of the incident, including the fact that the city was in the wrong house and Taylor was sleeping in his bed. . Shot.
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Mattling said he will likely leave the Louisville Police Department as he has reached the years of service required for retirement.
