The Kentucky Attorney General extended condolences to Breonna Taylor’s family this week, meeting with her for the first time since Taylor was fatally shot by police during a drug attack in March, according to reports.
Attorney General Daniel Cameron claimed he had not previously tried to meet with the family because he wanted to avoid interference in his office’s investigation into the case, family members told ABC News.
‘He wants the right answer at the end of this. He does not want to go through with it, “Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, told a news conference on Thursday, a day after she and other family members met with Cameron and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.
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Family members are pursuing criminal charges against police officers involved in the drug attack. One detective involved in the case was fired in June, but no officers have filed charges.
At the meeting, Cameron claimed that new interviews with witnesses would be conducted as part of the investigation, Taylor’s lawyer Sam Aguiar told the Courier Journal of Louisville.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will be seen on August 3, 2019, prior to his election to the office. (United Press)
The death of Taylor, 26, on March 13 in Louisville, caused panic and unrest in the city and drew wider national attention after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis two months later.
Taylor was shot several times after police conducted a “no knock” warrant at her apartment as part of a drug investigation. They claimed that Taylor had accepted packages for an ex-boyfriend who was a subject of the probe, ABC News reported.
Police have claimed officers began firing their weapons after Taylor’s new friend, Kenneth Walker, started firing at her, hitting one police officer in the leg.
Walker later claimed he mistakenly believed that the police who entered the apartment were house robbers who were trying to commit a robbery. An initial charge of attempted murder of Walker was later shot down, Louisville FOX station WDRB-TV reported.
At Thursday’s news conference, Taylor’s family lawyer Ben Crump told reporters that he “absolutely” expects some Louisville police officers to eventually get involved in the case, but that would not work out, ABC News reported.
The fired detective, Brett Hankison, had used his weapon “willingly and blindly” during the robbery, according to a letter of termination signed by Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder.
Other officers involved in the robbery have been identified as Sgt. Jon Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove.
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Taylor’s family has filed an unlawful death sentence.
In late July, a judge ruled that city officials in Louisville should turn over all recordings of police radio communications before, during and after the robbery – after Taylor’s family claimed the recordings could reveal more information about the robbery, in which none of the police officers were wearing a body camera authorities have said.
Lawyers for the city claimed that the request for radio recordings amounted to a “fishing expedition”.
