Breonna Taylor’s Family Condemns Prosecutor For Failure To Charge Officers

BREONNA TAYLOR’S FAMILY has criticized Kentucky’s top prosecutor for failing to press charges against police officers for her death.

Attorneys for the family asked him to release the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings and vowed to continue the protests until the officers are indicted.

Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, said in a statement read by a family member at a meeting in Louisville that she was not expecting justice from state attorney general Daniel Cameron.

Ben Crump, the family’s attorney, urged the prosecutor to make the transcripts public, so people can see if anyone was present at the grand jury proceedings to give Taylor a voice.

Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, also asked Cameron to release as much evidence as he can.

Cameron’s spokeswoman, Elizabeth Kuhn, said the prosecutor understood that Taylor’s family “is in an incredible amount of pain and anguish” and that the grand jury decision was not what they wanted.

But, the statement added, “prosecutors and grand jury members are bound by the facts and the law.”

Taylor, a black woman who worked in medical emergencies, was shot multiple times by white officers after her boyfriend shot them on March 13, authorities said.

He said he fired in self-defense, wounding an officer. Police were conducting a drug investigation and issued a warrant related to a suspect who did not live there, and no drugs were found inside.

Cameron has said the investigation showed that the officers acted in self-defense. The grand jury charged an officer, who has already been fired, with shooting at a neighboring apartment.

Around the same time that Taylor’s family denounced the handling of their case, a man accused of shooting police during protests on Wednesday was being prosecuted. Two officers were injured and were expected to recover.

A plea of ​​not guilty was filed today for Larynzo D Johnson (26). The bond was set at $ 1 million (around € 860,000).

Zac Meihaus, the attorney representing Johnson at the arraignment, said it is difficult to “pin down” whether Johnson fired the shots in question.

A prosecutor responded that a gun was recovered from Johnson, and there are videos and eyewitness accounts of the shooting.

The big question for Louisville, which has been torn apart by Taylor’s death, and the broader issue of racism in America was how to move forward.

The FBI is still investigating whether Taylor’s civil rights were violated, and some have pinned their hopes on that investigation, but the burden of proof for such cases is very high.

Many have taken to the streets across the country, some of them raised their fists and yelled “Black lives matter!”

Others tended to the letters, flowers and signs clustered in a plaza in downtown Louisville. Everyone said his name, which has become a battle cry.