Kentucky Police Reportedly Hiding Bodycam Footage Related To Breonna Taylor Murder
A lawsuit claims that Kentucky police are withholding body cam footage from the night that EMT Breonna Taylor was killed in her home.
WDRB reports that the suit filed against LMPD in Jefferson Circuit Court notes that the LMPD are allegedly hiding public records that might indicate whether there is more footage from the night she died.
While the LMPD claims there was no footage because some of the officers did not turn their cameras on, a lawyer for the Taylor family claims they may have turned on automatically, and thus the police are hiding it.
The lawsuit states that the public has “an uncompromised right to know whether undisclosed body camera footage exists, or otherwise previously existed, from LMPD Axon Cameras which related to the events surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor.”
The lawsuit is asking a judge to order the department to immediately turn over information requested under Kentucky’s open records law.