An updated lawsuit from Breonna Taylor’s family alleges that the 26-year-old was alive for several minutes after Louisville police officers shot her multiple times at her home in March, but police officers who entered her home did not provide her assistance. . Search warrant “untouched” and subsequently killed her.
In a revised complaint filed earlier this month, attorneys for Taylor’s family say she was not killed immediately after officers Brett Hankinson, Myles Cosgrove and Seargant Jonathon Mattingly of the Louisville Metro Police Department shot her several times, but did not receive medical attention. beside them as she lay in her hallway clinging to life.
“She lived another five to six minutes before finally succumbing to her injuries on the floor of her home,” the document read. according to the Courier-Journal.
Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend who shot one of the officers in the leg when they stormed the night in question, told investigators that Taylor was coughing and asking the police for help after his bullets hit her. , But it was in vain. .
From Courier-Journal:
For more than 20 minutes after Taylor was fatally shot at approximately 12:43 am by Louisville agents, the 26-year-old emergency room technician lay where he fell in his hallway, without receiving medical attention, according to dispatch records.
Outside, officers yelled at Walker to come out and rushed to treat the sergeant. Jonathan Mattingly, putting a tourniquet on his thigh after Walker shot him.
Mattingly and two other plainclothes officers had used a battering ram to break through at Taylor’s apartment in South Louisville while executing a search warrant as part of a larger narcotics investigation. Walker said he thought the intruders were entering.
But while officers concentrated on taking Mattingly to a hospital, no one came in to try to help Taylor, records show.
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But Jefferson County Coroner Barbra Weakley-Jones has discarded the idea that Taylor’s life could have been saved with a minimum of police humanity.
“I am sure that as soon as they approached her, she was dead,” Weakley-Jones told the Courier-Journal.
And Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has responded to this latest tragic detail in Taylor’s careless, cruel, and unfair murder by the police with some rather shameless doubts.
“This is a tragedy everywhere. You have an LMPD officer shot. His fellow officers rush to save him, not knowing if they will be shot if they try to enter, and not knowing that someone inside has been beaten. Mayor Greg Fischer said, in the kind of moral cowardice that seems to be characteristic of leaders in Kentucky.
In the meantime, WHAS 11 News reports that Jefferson County District Attorney Mike O’Connell has dismissed the felony charges against protesters, among them NFL player Kenny Stills and Atlanta Real Housewives Porsha Williams, who was arrested en masse by Louisville police officers on Tuesday.
The LMPD had charged 87 protesters for gathering outside the home of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and demanding that the police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor be brought to justice.
However, O’Connell made sure to add that he believes the LMPD officers had probable cause to press felony charges against the people who were protesting for the LMPD officers to be arrested and charged.
What does that say about the system working exactly as intended? Clearly, nothing will change unless we keep our voices up.
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