Kentucky Attorney General Never Recommended Murder Charges In Breonna Taylor Case
On Tuesday, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said that he never recommended murder charges against police officers for Breonna Taylor’s death. As well previously reported, the grand jury recently handed down no charges in connection with Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed by a trio of plainclothes Louisville police officers in her home back in March.
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In a sit-down interview with local news station WDRB, Cameron explained that his office found murder charges were “not appropriate.”
“They’re an independent body. If they wanted to make an assessment about different charges, they could have done that,” Cameron said. “But our recommendation was that [Officers Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove] were justified in their acts and their conduct.”
The other two officers who fired the shots at Taylor including the one that killed her, Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly, were not indicted on any charges and remain on the force. The only charges that the grand jury decided upon were three cases of wanton endangerment for former officer Brett Hankison. He was fired from the force in June after it was found that he “blindly” fired 10 shots into Taylor’s apartment.
“I cannot fashion the facts in such a way to meet a narrative that in many ways had already been put out there before the facts had been put out there,” Cameron said in an exclusive interview with WDRB-TV.
Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who’s representing the Taylor family, demanded that the transcript of the grand jury proceedings be released to the public. Cameron asked a judge Wednesday for another week to provide the recordings, saying he needed time to redact identifiable information of witnesses.
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