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my girlfriend is dead. >> keep walking! >> it's a tale of two points of view from either side of the same door. >> this is a story about a death that didn't need to happen. >> everything happened in seconds. boom, boom, boom. >> i let out one shot at the ground. >> what was your intent? >> to stop the threat. >> all hell breaks loose. and 32 shots are fired into the apartment. >> ma'am, can you hear us?
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>> why did they have to go the this law-abiding innocent black woman's apartment. >> whoever shot her is responsible for her death. >> we got ems on stand by. >> i know what i did was right. >> how do you think you just get away with this? >> should there have been more charges brought? >> oh, yes. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> i hate that she had the die to be great. third division responding to a 10-20. >> our apartment's got bullet holes through it. >> bullets came through the front wall from the next apartment where the shooting happened. >> building 303. apartment number 4, please come out. put your hands up. have you been hit by a bullet? >> i'm scared. >> keep walking backwards!
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>> walk straight back or i'll send this dog on you! >> walk back to me! keep on walking! >> put your hands on your head! >> what did i do? what did i do? >> let's get behind this car for cover. >> what did i do? y'all was banging at the door. she said, who is it and you started shooting. what is this about? we don't -- we're both just regular working -- >> keep walking! stop! keep walking! >> aah! aah! >> stop screaming. >> don't come off that car. if you come off that car again, we'll put you on the ground. >> please don't let her be dead. please, god, don't let her be dead. >> america is a complicated place.
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we are constantly working to move forward to do better, but there are always these reminders that the promise of america, in many ways, is just that for a lot of communities. >> louisville is a very vibrant city. we're a riverfront town. >> louisville, kentucky, is famous for muhammad ali, diane sawyer, colonel sanders, kentucky fried chicken. >> we host the kentucky derby, the greatest horse-racing event in the world. >> they're off in the kentucky derby! >> but it's also a city with a lot of issues as well. >> we have a drug epidemic here. >> 140 homicides. more than 500 shootings. >> one of the problems that you see right now is racial injustice and relationships between citizens and its police department.
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>> there's this identity crisis that louisville has. while there were abolitionists fighting for emancipation in louisville, you also had slave auctions sometimes right across the street. >> louisville is segregated. the west end of louisville is primarily black. has been oppressed a lot in terms of economics, vacant and abandoned properties. >> you're in this black and white world, and there is underlining issues of inequality. the struggles are real. they shouldn't be dismissed. >> emblematic of the tensions about race and policing, the name breonna taylor. >> look at breonna. >> this is junior. >> no, that was senior prom. the junior prom she had the blue dress. that's the junior prom. she looked so good.
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>> to know her is to love her. she's so much like me, but she's so much better than me. >> breonna and tamika were really close. breonna pushed everyone else in her family to be the best versions of themselves. >> if you ain't got a breonna, or a preonna -- >> she's the star of the show for the family basically and she just kept everybody going. ♪ >> just being around family gave her a lot of joy. she loved to be around family. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> she was always the one who was like, let's have a family game night. let's all get together. >> she's very girly. she's such a diva. >> her mother said that she'd be like, breonna, didn't you just get an outfit? and breonna would say like, oh, yeah, but that ones already been
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in pictures. like i can't wear that one again. >> i am a strong, intelligent, beautiful black young woman who has grown so much. she loved to set these goals for herself no matter what it was. you wouldn't be able to tell her nothing. >> when i walk across that stage and get my diploma handed to me, i won't be thinking this is the end, rather more like this is only the beginning. i will now be starting my journey to the adult life. >> she wanted to become a nurse. and she was in the process of advancing it towards the things she wanted to do in the future. and what breonna taylor wanted to do is she wanted to help people. >> after she graduated high school, she started pursuing a nursing career at uk. >> she was making plans to settle down with a long-time boyfriend. kenny walker. >> bre, your hand is on the
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table. get off the table. >> we actually met on twitter. she was just goofy. she was always posting funny stuff. ♪ girl, let me wipe your eyes-everything going to be all right ♪ >> she did like to sing all the time. >> even though she couldn't sing, she could sang if you know what i mean. ♪ give me your tennis bracelet >> lived life to the fullest with no regrets. >> hey, follow the kid, man. real talk. real life smack. hey, stop playing. >> bre's dream was to marry my son. to have children. to travel. to love on us. >> come here. >> get away from me! >> he knew that she was the girl for him. >> these two here, they might as well get married. and have a family.
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>> do you want to be my baby daddy? do you want to be my baby daddy? >> yes. >> can we have five babies? >> yes. >> when? >> today. >> ooh. >> breonna seemed to be high on life. she tweeted, "2020 is going to be my year, watch!" and she was constantly posting about her relationship with kenneth. >> for the future we had a lot planned. actually, we planned on getting a house, and she already had got a new car that she wanted. >> it was her baby. and don't sit on her car, don't touch her car, don't eat in her car. >> breonna taylor wanted to be a mother more than anything else in this world. >> we definitely talked about babies, and she wanted a girl. these are the shoes, you know, for whenever we finally got to have a baby. yeah, so these are kind of special.
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>> she just kind of had it all planned out to have her nice house and to be able to provide for her family. >> i was god's blessing to my mother. she brought me into this world as her first child, her first baby girl. from this day forward, i was living to please my mother. i feel like i owe her the world. >> 911. what is the location of your emergency? >> our apartment's got bullet holes through it. >> there is a police-involved shooting at the apartment. >> i heard a huge volume of shots. probably about 20 to 25 shots. >> is there a female breonna taylor in there?
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roadhouse, because it was a date night and it was one of the first nights that she hadn't had to work in a while. >> i called, and they were eating. and i said, well, can i come join you? he was like, no, this is bre day. we're on a date. >> we went out to eat, and after that we left there and then we went home. >> breonna and kenny had the apartment to themselves, which wasn't normal, because normally, ju'niyah, breonna's younger sister, would be there but on that night ju'niyah is across the country. >> they drive back to her apartment. they play some uno, and they watch hillary swank in "freedom riders." >> it was just chilling, playing uno, you know, watching a movie uno, you know, watching a movie, and then she was falling asleep
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and so was i. a couple minutes after she had been sleeping there was a loud bang at the door. >> they have no idea that the police are on the other side of the door to execute a warrant. >> i was watching tv and feeling the breeze, and i proceeded to hear pop, pop, pop, and then two real quick pop, pop. it sounded like the o.k. corral. >> breonna lives directly across from me. i got woke up by gunshots. i jumped out of my sleep. >> it was insane. and so i immediately called 911. >> 911, where's your emergency? >> there was a lot of gunshots just now. >> they're still shooting. >> still shooting? >> come on. y'all need to get over here. they're shooting like crazy. >> it just felt like you was in a movie, because you just heard, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. and the it was a short break and then it just started firing off again. >> 911.
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>> please get police out here. they are shooting bad. they just unloaded, and i heard somebody yell "yeah, reload." man they just shot about seven or eight times. they right here in front of my [ bleep ] house. >> can we have all responding units. >> i heard a huge volley of shots, probably about maybe 20 to 25 shots. then cut my radio up. >> report of a shooting at 3003 springfield number 4. >> and i heard 3003 springfield. and i knew that that was inside this complex. the radio chatter was kind of wild. >> 1030. 1030. officer down. 1030, officer shot on springfield! officer shot on springfield. 1030! >> we need ems up here now! tell them to get up here! >> i immediately put my police officer uniform on. i put my bulletproof vest on and sprinted down to see what was going on. >> all perimeter units hold position. asking everybody to bring rifles if you're going out there. >> there are dozens of other officers starting to show up to the scene. most of them with rifles now,
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pointing them directly at the apartment. >> i'm still right there with breonna holding her, but at this point i got to do something so i called my mother. >> i picked up that phone, and i heard him screaming. you know, mama! he said, somebody's trying to break in. i think they hurt bre. i said, hang up with me and call 911. >> 911, operator harris. where is your emergency? >> i don't know what's happening. somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend. >> okay, where are you located? >> i'm at 3003 springfield drive, apartment 4. my god. >> where was she shot at? >> i don't know. she's on the ground right now. help! oh, my god. help!
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>> after he hangs up with 911, kenneth then calls breonna's mom. >> all i could hear is kenny crying. and, um -- he said, somebody kicked in the door and shot breonna. and so i said, what -- kenny, what are you talking about? and he was screaming her name. i dropped the phone, and so i started to call her phone and she wasn't answering. so i just -- i rushed over to the apartment. >> while i was on the phone with breonna's mother, i told her on the phone, i said, "well, i think it's the police outside." but i was really thinking that
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the police came to help. >> he's still inside, radio, barricaded with a long rifle. it looks like an a.r. >> the officers think they're coming in for a gunfight. >> a group of officers were there kind of yelling in -- in the direction of that apartment. and it sounded like they were calling somebody out. >> apartment number 4, please come out with your hands up! >> suspect is coming out. >> keep walking backwards. >> walk backwards! have you been hit by a bullet? >> no. >> i'm scared. >> keep walking backwards! >> you're scared, right. >> when you watch that video of him being treated like a criminal, it's really horrific to watch. >> walk back or i'll send this dog! walk back to me!
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keep on walking! walk now. walk! leave your hands in the air and get down on your knees. watch that, man! get down on your knees! >> don't look back. don't look back. >> put your hands behind your head! >> what's going on? >> you are going to prison, that's what's going on. >> what did i do? >> for the rest of your life. >> what did i do? >> let's get behind this car for cover. >> what did i do? what did i do? >> who else is in the apartment? >> nobody, my girlfriend's dead. >> tell them we got one 10-15. >> how is your girlfriend dead? >> i don't know! >> inside? >> yeah. somebody was -- y'all was banging at the door, and she said, who it? and then y'all just started shooting. >> no, we announced three times, police search warrant. >> what kind of gun did she shoot? >> it's a 9 -- just a regular 9
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millimeter. >> did she shoot or did you shoot it? >> it was her, she was scared. >> in this extremely tense moment, an officer asked him, who shot at us? and kenny says it was breonna. >> what is this about? >> what is it about? you guys fired shots. you know that. >> we were just in the bed. we were scared. we didn't know who it was. >> hey, just remember, the female is supposedly the one who shot. we're not sure of that. move on up. >> watch out. >> ma'am, can you hear us? thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor
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turn the lights on back here! >> holy [ bleep ] >> what the [ bleep ] >> jesus. >> everybody get on squad one. >> i'm on squad one. >> okay, what's going on? >> so, we're going in. as soon as we hit the door, announce three times. the [ bleep ] shot. he said there's a female. he said she was shooting. he said she's down in there. >> maybe ten s.w.a.t. officers in total and they go in expecting anything. they go in thinking that there might be someone inside hiding
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with a gun. >> hey, she's down at the end of the hall. >> watch your step. >> kitchen. watch the kitchen. >> i got her. >> we still got to check the bed. >> one on me! >> it's underneath the bed. clear. >> case in there. slug there. casings here. check our, we got check our -- ma'am, can you hear us? louisville metro police department. medic up. now a crime scene. let's go ahead and move out, all right? he's done. >> please, god, don't let her be dead. please, god, don't let her be dead. >> is that the guy that shot? >> i guess. >> do we know that for a fact? >> well, he was sitting there, saying i hope she's not dead. i hope she's not dead. >> can you unbuckle him real quick? i want to loosen his cuff. it's actually really tight. >> i'm in the back of the police car. all i'm asking them, "is she okay?"
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like, "what's going on with her?" and nobody was telling me anything. nobody seemed to be concerned about her but me. >> you're walking this way. >> it was terrible. i wasn't free anymore. i couldn't even move. that alone is enough to make anybody feel some type of way. >> face that wall over there for a second, all right? >> which way? >> just where you're faced already. >> it was terrible, but it didn't matter. like, once i found out that breonna's gone, it's like all this doesn't even matter. >> they put him in the car, take him downtown, read him his miranda rights. >> it makes my heart fall into my stomach. a close family friend treated like a criminal. >> today's date is march 13, 2020. do you know who we are? we're the public integrity unit. we investigate officer-involved shootings. >> the other -- i don't know who he was, but he came and told me there was some type of misunderstanding. >> an officer told you that? >> yeah. in the police car on the ride over here. >> there's a little bit of miscommunication.
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i just wanted to touch base with you so you kind of have an idea of what was going on. >> to me it seemed like they realized that they were at the wrong place. >> help me to kind of understand something. you originally told like the officers, she shot the gun. >> yeah, i didn't mean to, i was just scared. >> so, we're just here to try to find out what happened. >> she had been sleeping, and i was kind of dozing off. >> seven police officers show up at breonna taylor's door in the middle of the night to execute a narcotics search warrant. >> we didn't write it, we didn't do any of the investigation, we did none of the background. >> sergeant jonathan mattingly has been with the louisville police department for about 20 years. >> you guys were only there to assist. >> right. it was a heavy manpower-intensive operation, and they just needed bodies. >> it wasn't until kenneth walker and the police officers present were interrogated that the details of the shooting emerged. >> there was a loud bang at the door. >> i remember banging on the door. it's open hand, hard smack.
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bam bam bam. first time didn't announce. just hoping she'd come to the door. >> breonna said, you know, "who is it?" nobody said anything, so at this time we're getting up to put on clothes to see who it is, and then there's another loud bang at the door. >> i yelled, "police, search warrant. police, search warrant." there was a total of six different knocks at the door while we're doing this. >> it's too late for anybody to be knocking on the door, so i grab my gun, then we proceed to go answer the door. >> and finally, i look back at my lieutenant, who's in the stack back here. he goes, go ahead and hit it. >> and when we get right in the doorway of the bedroom, the door flies open. >> i could see the living room to my right. so, i could see the tan couches, the living room, the door. >> were there any lights on in the apartment? >> no. just the tv back there, but we have lights on guns. as i step in the door frame to clear the hallway, i can see two figures. i've done probably 2,000 search warrants where i've made entry. i've never seen two people lined up like this down a hall. >> sargent mattingly and police on one side of the narrow hallway, and facing them 25 feet away are kenneth walker and
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breonna taylor. >> protect breonna, protect myself. that's what was going through my head. >> my eyes went straight to the barrel of this gun. i could see the tip of it. and my eyes just focused in on it. >> kenny is a legal gun owner. >> so, i let out one shot, you know, at the ground. >> he wasn't shooting at the ground. he was in a stretched out with two hands, looking straight at me. our postures were the same, looking at each other. >> i'm figuring it's intruders or somebody trying to break in and harm us. i couldn't see anybody. it was pitch black in there. >> i reached down and felt my leg, and i could feel a handful of blood. and i thought, "man, that's my femoral artery." everything happened in milliseconds. boom, boom, boom, returned four shots. >> what was your intent? >> to stop the threat, whatever that was. i wanted to get home to my family. >> there was just a hail of gunfire, and i grabbed breonna and i dropped to the ground, and i was holding her hand while we went down. >> can you see who you're shooting at, at that point? >> at that point, he had dove in
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the room and i was shooting for the door opening and we're just trying to neutralize the threat. >> there's one shot, but then there were 30 shots in return. a lot of people would look and say, man, that seems a little bit excessive. >> it does seem like a lot. are 30 shots normal? on this situation, i don't know how many were necessary. i mean, that's a hard one to tell because the initial shot barrage were so quick. >> and then, all hell breaks loose. three of the officers immediately return fire. and 32 shots are fired into the apartment. >> detective miles cosgrove was directly behind mattingly and brett hankison told authorities that he went around the side of the apartment and unloaded 10 rounds. >> i returned fire at the angle that i believed him to still be shooting from because i could still see those muzzle flashes and hear -- and the fire increased, almost like an automatic type weapon. >> kenny fires the first bullet and he doesn't fire another one. it is possible that hankison
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mistakes his colleagues' gunfire for a gun being fired from inside. >> i returned fire through the sliding glass doors. >> they was coming from every direction. it was coming from a window that was in the room next to us. they was coming down the hallway. they was coming in the living room. >> there are bullet holes everywhere in this apartment. >> bullets going through clocks in the walls. >> bullets through cabinets. bullets through pots. there're bullets through cereal boxes inside of cabinets. >> the patio door was riddled with bullets. >> there are bullets through the ceiling that go up through the apartment upstairs. >> and then you're looking down this hallway, and you're basically seeing where breonna was. >> breonna, she couldn't say anything. she was scared to death, as was i, but she did scream at some point in time when she got hit. that's the last sounds that she made. >> breonna is hit six times. and we don't know definitively but it's pretty certain that the fatal shot hits her in the chest. >> two people are shot that night.
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>> we got ems on stand by. >> one gets rushed to the hospital, the other bleeding out on her hallway floor. yet for hours, breonna taylor's mother is left in the dark wondering what's going on. and nothing has really worked for me. until now. with nurtec odt, i have felt such relief. i am able to go about my day as if nothing happened. nurtec is the only quick- dissolve treatment for migraine attacks that can get many people back to normal activities and last up to 48 hours with just one dose. don't take if allergic to nurtec. the most common side effect was nausea. for more information, go to nurtec.com you can crush ice, make nismoothies, and do even more. chop salsas, spoon thick smoothie bowls, even power through dough, and never stall. the ninja foodi power pitcher. rethink what a blender can do.
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we have an officer shot on springfield, and they need -- they're requesting armor down there. we are going to go ahead and take it. >> you can hear these s.w.a.t. members learn that there is a shooting on springfield at breonna taylor's apartment. in realtime. >> all right, go! >> they don't know what's going on, and they rush over. >> they arrive. one of their own has been shot. >> watch it, watch it, watch it. >> and everything is going so slow at this point. when you're in pain you're like, just get me somewhere and get me something. >> cut it with my knife, cut i with my knife. >> we've got ems on stand by. >> aye got to get a tourniquet or i'm going die. >> i'm trying to get pressure on it.
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>> if not for the quick actions of officers on the scene and the quick transport ft. university of louisville hospital he may well not have survived that incident. >> we got it closed off, we got it plugged. >> his surgery lasted probably a little over five hours. is it gonna be good news? or is it going to be bad news? and when he came out and said that he got through surgery okay, i broke down. >> to his family's relief, mattingly is out of surgery and all right. but tamika palmer, breonna taylor's mom, is left to wait and wonder about her daughter. >> breonna's mother, at the very beginning, wanted to know, where is my daughter? where is her body? what happened here? >> tamika palmer really got the
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run-around the night that breonna died. >> i went to the hospital and they tell me to hold on. so we wait for almost two hours. and she comes back and says, well, ma'am, there's no record of this person even being on the way here. >> and so she goes back to the apartment complex and is trying to get answers. >> breonna's mom says she came up over there where i was standing and started to ask questions. >> i asked where's breonna, >> i asked, where's breonna, and what's going on? so he tells me to hang tight. >> and i just told her, "hold on one second. let me get an investigator to come talk to you." >> do you think breonna is injured at this point? what are you thinking is happening with breonna at this point? >> i'm thinking -- i don't know what to think, you know?
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and the officer comes back over. so i screamed at him, why won't you just tell me where breonna is? >> she has a recorded conversation. she was never even told she was being recorded. >> are you breonna's mom? >> yes. >> this is sergeant lane. i'm sorry in advance for you. >> where is breonna? >> ma'am, she's in the apartment. [ crying ] >> i'm extremely sorry for your loss. >> at that point did you know that she was gone? >> yeah. he didn't say it, but i knew it. i knew what it meant. >> she was like, she's really gone.
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she's really gone. it was heartbreaking. >> according the to police records, tamika was informed about breonna at around 3:00 a.m. >> members of lmpd swat team responded and searched the residence, finding an unresponsive woman who was later pronounced dead. >> police have not released her identity yet and are still investigating what her role was. at this time police have not said if she was armed. >> after all this happens, the police are treating this like the attempted murder of a police officer, of sergeant jonathan mattingly. >> as it relates to this shooting, we are in the early stages of our investigation. >> that's what they're investigating, and that is why very few people know about breonna taylor. >> we have no body-worn video cameras to share with you from this morning's shooting. >> when chief steve conrad did the press conference the next day -- >> even without the videos, our public integrity unit will
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conduct a complete review of this case. >> that's the story, boom. >> kenny is pretty much immediately charged with the attempted murder of a police officer. >> and he can't even grieve because now he's got to shift to being a prisoner, a criminal, and then got to figure out how to survive in jail. and he has no record, so he don't have a clue to how to even eat or ask for help. >> he spends two weeks there, and then he spends two months on house arrest. >> kenneth walker was sort of being described as this cop killer being let on home incarceration. right? that was the narrative that the police shooting sort of spun out. >> walker is charged with shooting a police officer. >> he's new home and on incarceration. >> the charges are dropped against him. >> the family thinks there's a
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it was march 15th. i remember the initial reports i saw was this emt had been shot and killed. >> we just literally hit the door and it was shooting. >> okay. >> when police shootings happen, they're a really big deal. it demands a lot of scrutiny. >> when breonna taylor was killed, a week before that, kentucky had had its first case of the coronavirus, and our governor declared a state of emergency. >> this is us against the coronavirus. >> we had no idea as a newsroom, what is going on? >> i think its fair to say that if covid had not been so all-consuming at that time, breonna taylor's case would have gotten a lot more scrutiny a lot sooner. >> all three of these men have
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been placed on administrative reassignment. >> after the shooting, the three officers who fired their weapon, according to the department, are immediately put on what's called administrative reassignment, which basically just means you're not working, but you're getting paid while they figure this thing out. >> for us to just have to find the strength to move on without her is going to be so hard. >> by this time, breonna was still considered a suspect. nothing about it seemed right. usually you have have detective that comes and tells the family, like, this is what happened. but nobody said anything of that nature. >> i'm not even gonna call it a total cover-up or a cover-up yet. but there are some things that's horribly mismanaged, and it doesn't take a person who understand the inner workings of the police department to really
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see this already. >> and so we knew we was going to have to get legal help to get answers. >> and they said, nobody's giving it any attention. they're just gonna try to sweep it under the rug. i said, "we have to do something." >> ben crump is a powerful and influential voice in the black community. >> what we want is an arrest of george zimmerman today! >> he has the experience in civil rights cases. he's worked on cases like trayvon martin, michael brown. >> we filed that wrongful death lawsuit to make sure that we could get the truth out about what happened to breonna taylor because we did not believe we were going to get the truth from the government agencies that were over this investigation. >> what was your hope at that point? what were you trying to achieve? >> just to know what happened.
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to understand why breonna was dead. >> police weren't investigating breonna taylor. they were investigating an ex-boyfriend of breonna's named jamarcus glover. everything that happens that night at her apartment needs to be understood in the context of this broader investigation. >> jamarcus glover is in his 20s. there are a couple of houses in particular in louisville that they appear to target, where he's been accused of dealing drugs. >> one place in particular, 2424 elliot avenue became a focus of a sting operation, essentially. surveillance video was taken. >> walk towards me. any weapons on you, sir? >> he was arrested, taken into custody, pretty much without incident. >> he didn't really say what
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time he was arrested, but what he was relating to me was his arrest took place before the raid on breonna's apartment. >> if they knew they had their target already in custody, why did they have to go in this law abiding, innocent black woman's apartment while she slept in the middle of the night? >> were you having any suspicions about the louisville police department? >> i did. >> daniel cameron is the attorney general for kentucky. he was brought in this case to investigate the three officers who were accused in the shooting death of breonna taylor. >> now to new developments in the death of breonna taylor, the black woman killed in her home. >> it isn't until late june that the police department fires one of the officers who's involved in the shooting. they fire brett hankison. >> hankison was our k-9 guy. so when we'd do warrants, he would show up and run his dog. >> it's at this moment that the
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public learns that hankison fired at least 10 bullets. >> authorities saying officer hankison showing extreme indifference to human life as he wantonly and blindly fired into taylor's home. >> it's pretty clear just based on what little lmpd said that brett hankison was firing without being able to see what he was shooting at. >> and i don't remember if i shot moving or stopped and shot, but i returned fire. >> brett hankinson had not maintained a target or did not have a target in sight when he fired his weapon. >> hankinson is appealing his termination. he says he did not fire blindly, and his attorney is calling his termination premature and, quote, a cowardly political act. >> breonna taylor is killed in this period where there's all of this attention on police brutality. >> news tonight in the death of
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an unarmed african-american in minneapolis. >> the breonna taylor case didn't explode into the american consciousness until after the death of george floyd. in the explosive protests that followed, other names were brought to the forefront. >> ahmaud arbery first. >> ahmaud arbery, this young 26-year-old black man, who was lynched for jogging while black in broad daylight. >> then the george floyd incident happened. with that, everyone sort of perked up and went, "yeah, that happened here in louisville." >> when you get this trifecta of the three cases, i think so many people just say, you know what? we have to change. >> so, it was may 28th the first day we had a protest in louisville. that was also the same day that the "courier journal" broke the story of kenneth walker's 911
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call. >> somebody kicks in the door and shot my girlfriend. >> it was new and it was really wrenching and it was one of our first glimpses into what happened at the apartment that night. >> in louisville, in the streets people were demanding that everyone say her name. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> b >> there was this realization that for too long perhaps, the singular narrative about blacks dying at the hands of law enforcement, men of color. but she spoke to the truth that there a number of women of color, of black women, who have been on the wrong side of law enforcement. >> until freedom was founded with this concept of building campaigns around the country that meet people where they are at. >> we decided at that point that we were actually going to get up and go. it's now, finally, we get it going. we're putting louisville on the map. we're putting breonna taylor on the map. >> will we take advantage of
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this moment? can we make this a movement? can we transform the pain that we are feeling and turn it into power? >> i think social media is an extremely important tool. it helps us get our message out faster and broader. >> for the first time in 20 years, oprah was not on a cover of her magazine. you have "vanfy fair" doing that. ♪ >> we have to say her name, breonna taylor, because her life matters. >> breonna taylor. >> say her name. say her name. >> say her name! say her name! won't you say her name! >> breonna is bigger than breonna. >> breonna taylor. >> she now has become an american symbol. >> and if we don't say breonna taylor's name loudly
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say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> we have to say her name. breonna taylor. because her life matters. >> my girlfriend is dead. >> i don't give a -- keep walking! >> it's not a race thing like people make it to it >> this is about race. >> they have a right to defend themselves against a threat, but is that what they did when they fired blindly into a house? >> there's one shot, but then there were 30 shots in return. a lot of people would look and say, man, that seems a bit excessive. >> the grand jury agreed --
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mattingly and cosgrove were justified. >> liar. >> the grand jury is saying, you didn't give us anything else. it's a gotcha moment. >> what breonna taylor's mother got was not justice. >> how much do you miss her, tamika? >> more than life. >> breonna taylor's life mattered! say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> this is a story about a death that didn't need to happen. >> she was 26 when she died. bre was sweet. she always was a sweet little
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girl. >> caring, loving, inspirational. >> breonna taylor had a job. she had a career, she had dreams, she was going places. none of that mattered on a night in which some police officers came to her door, kicked it in, and shot her to death multiple times. >> it's a tale of two points of view from opposite sides of the same door. and those really reflect the view of america. the police point of view and the point of view of black citizens who feel they're under siege. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> the movement around breonna taylor has gotten a lot of celebrity attention. >> say her name. >> breonna taylor! >> they help us elevate the message. >> keep shinning a light on breonna's name. >> and to amplify it in a large way. >> there's been no arrests, there's been no justice.
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>> oprah bought billboard space in louisville, which was then dedicated to bringing awareness to breonna's case. >> i'm so grateful for it, you know? in the beginning, people didn't know what happened, or you heard this glimpse of this story and it faded away as quickly as it came in. and so now it's like this name that's never going to die. >> these 26 billboards, one for every year of breonna's life, are my offering, my form of protest. we cannot be silent. we have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> in louisville, people have been protesting every single day since the >> there have been wanted posters distributed with those three officers' faces on them. they've been called terrorists
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and murderers. >> my family has been a victim in this. they have had to go in hiding. they have had death threats. >> have you always wanted to be a police officer in louisville? >> always. even since i was a kid. and i would play cops and robbers and i'd always want to be the cop. >> you were called names. >> i was, a lot. when somebody accuses somebody they don't know of being a racist, a dirty cop, being a murderer -- when that's not the case, that does affect you. >> to understand how we got here to this huge divide, you have to go back to see how breonna taylor was first connected to this police investigation. >> a new police unit was formed called place-based investigations, tasked with the responsibility of cleaning up an area of louisville that they declared a high drug activity area. their focus really targeted breonna taylor's ex-boyfriend. >> jamarcus glover was alleged
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by police to be a low-level or even mid-level drug operator. >> he has no violent criminal history, but he does have several drug arrests. >> in the wake of breonna taylor's death, police revealed phone calls between breonna taylor and her ex-boyfriend jamarcus glover. >> i come get me some rest in your bed. >> jarmarcus. >> what? you don't want me? >> these phone calls are really painful to listen to because you can hear her knowledge that this relationship is not a healthy one for her. >> when you're around, i stress a lot. >> on what? >> because i always be worried about you. with the police. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> he was somebody she liked. she definitely liked him. >> her and jamarcus were friends, but she never was serious about him. >> she would help him get out of jail. that may be why they believed that breonna taylor may have
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been involved with drug activity. >> you say he was already back at the trap? >> a trap house is essentially a drug operation running out of a residence. >> i think she really genuinely liked jamarcus but didn't really know how to cut ties with him. >> she was at a fork in the road in her personal life between him and kenneth walker. >> the whole situation i'm getting pounded on. >> phillip bailey exclusively interviewed jamarcus glover about his relationship with breonna taylor for "the courier journal louisville" and abc news. >> what was her relationship with you? >> we were together 2016, '17, some part of '18. but, um, we had gotten to a point where we weren't together no more. >> we started to ask ourselves, hey, you know, was breonna taylor just collateral damage as part of this investigation revolving totally different people just because she used to
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date this guy? >> police had been watching jamarcus glover because they alleged that he was operating a trap house on elliot avenue. they've got surveillance on him, on his car. they are watching his every move. >> police see breonna taylor's car outside of his home on 2424 elliott avenue. they see jamarcus glover leaving breonna's apartment with a package that they believe is drugs in it. >> jamarcus glover is adamant that he never brought any sort of the drug culture or lifestyle into breonna taylor's world. >> you ever pick up anything illegal from breonna taylor's apartment? >> of course not. nothing, nothing ever been illegal there. shoes and clothes and [ bleep ] coming through the mail is not illegal. >> did she ever come over sometimes? >> she pulled up out there and we literally standing outside. a hug is not illegal. i'm not bringing no boxes, she's not bringing me no boxes, none of it. >> breonna was never someone who held money for you, sold narcotics, never held narcotics for you?
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>> no, no. never. listen, i've been free from narcotics years ago. i ain't have no dealing with this [ bleep ] >> one has to ask one's self, why did they release those phone calls? >> if you've already come into it with your mind made up, this proves to you breonna taylor was a courier, she got what she deserves. if you think absolutely the police were wrong, you think this is an effort by the media and the government to smear her. >> i was provided a document from jamarcus glover's family. and i was blown away. it asked jamarcus glover, in exchange for a reduced sentence, to admit to breonna taylor as being part of a criminally syndicated enterprise with him. >> he would rather tear up a deal, speak to the media, upset the applecart in his own individual case, than besmirch or stain breonna's name. >> i'm going to put everything on the line because she innocent. she dead innocent. >> but prosecutors would later say that that plea document was just draft and not final. >> jamarcus glover has pleaded not guilty to all pending
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one david, on springfield. where y'all at? >> so many things had to happen for breonna taylor to die that night. >> go, go, go go. >> whoever shot her is responsible for her death. my girlfriend is dead. >> i don't give a -- keep walking! >> is anyone to blame? >> the system failed everybody. i think the system failed to begin with. and then i think it's a chain of events after that. >> on the night of march 12th into march 13th, law enforcement set out to execute several search warrants. >> all right, here you go. you want me to hit the corner
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and just hold? >> yes. >> they're going to hit four different houses on one night. >> it's not that one, it's the one over. >> in one night. and they execute the warrant at breonna taylor's apartment. >> let's go, let's go, let's go. >> and that's how we find ourselves outside her apartment very early morning hours on which she's killed. >> the warrant for breonna taylor's apartment was written as a no-knock warrant. >> a no-knock warrant allows them to show up at a residence or an apartment, take a battering ram and bust the door down. >> no-knock warrants are just not common. it's some of the more dangerous things you can do in law enforcement, both for the officers and the people inside. >> the opportunity to prevent the destruction of evidence is what guides the decision to ask for a no-knock warrant. >> police reportedly thought that breonna may have been receiving drugs or holding cash.
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they wanted to recover whatever they could. >> they knew that he used that address on bank statements. they knew that was actually listed as one of his permanent addresses. >> their intelligence was that one package had been seen by jamarcus glover while he was leaving breonna taylor's place. >> the presumption is there are drugs in there. >> jamarcus glover says, absolutely not. i never had anything illegal sent to breonna's apartment. >> they said that they get verification from the u.s. postal inspector. >> the postal inspector came forward and denied telling any member of lmpd that jamarcus was receiving any packages. >> he said to me in the interview, everyone's blaming me. the police and the streets are blaming me. >> jamarcus glover didn't put her in the situation that the police were even at her house? that's him putting her in this situation that she shouldn't have been in. >> jamarcus said, they're saying
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if she wasn't dealing with me, she wouldn't be dead. >> there was a briefing that evening before law enforcement officers went out, and the warrant for breonna taylor's home was changed. why did they change it from a no-knock to a knock-and-announce? whose decision was that? >> that was the detective in charge. >> our intent was to give her plenty of time to come to the door because they said she was probably there alone. banged on the door, um, no response. banged on it again, no response. at that point, we started announcing ourself -- police come to the door. >> kenny says he never heard that announcement. the police, of course, say they did. >> it wasn't me out there paying cowboy and being out of control. i mean, we were asked to do a job, a task -- we were doing the job. >> what would you do if somebody was knocking on your door at 1:00 a.m. and then not responding saying who they are and then they kick in the door? >> he may say, i was just doing my job. i think the response is, amazon,
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if that's your job, then something's wrong with our job. >> i think it's crucial to understanding the story to understand that these sorts of problems are not new the lmpd. the department has had all sorts of issues and it's had issues with police raids specifically. in 2018, five of the officers who were involved in the raid on taylor's home executed a different raid on another home in louisville. >> police! >> police! [ screaming ] >> hey! >> police, search warrant! >> it was scary. i honestly didn't know what to do. i didn't know what to think. in that moment figured, what happened? we ain't did nothing, so there be no reason for them to be here.
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>> get on the ground! >> the police get a complaint about someone at that address was growing and selling marijuana. they wait so long to actually look into that complaint that by the time they raid the home, someone else has moved in. >> when i heard that five of the officers involved in our raid was in breonna's -- it's just crazy. >> is it a coincidence that these two cases happen in the same police department, similar circumstances? or might there be something cultural questionable in that police department? >> no-knock warrants, in my estimation, were many times unconstitutional because they were executed disproportionately against people of color, especially black people. >> have you ever thought in your mind, had we done it differently -- >> oh, yeah. we would have either served the
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no-knock warrant or done the normal thing we do, which is five to ten seconds to not give people time to form late a plan, not give time people to get their senses that they have an idea of what they're doing. because if that had happened, breonna taylor would be alive. 100%. >> if you just stormed in. >> yes. >> and not given them time? >> i do. >> the city seems to be preparing for war. >> everybody was holding their breath, waiting for this grand jury. >> anything less than murder charges for all three will upset a lot of protesters. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> let's go. let's go.
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>> breonna's family reach add a $12 million settlement with the city of louisville. >> our city, louisville, is ready and waiting. >> the mayor of louisville declaring a state of emergency. >> anxious and very concerned about the final decision from kentucky attorney general. >> people were watching the city being boarded up and were like, this is not going to be good. >> the city seems to be preparing for war. >> this decision has been hanging over the city's head for months. >> the city begins stationing police officers at different parts of louisville. >> it was a sickening feeling. because, you know, when to expect something, you didn't know what to expect. >> anything less than murder charges for all three will upset
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a lot of protesters, but there are also people who would be just as upset if all three were indicted for murder. >> as we're all waiting for the attorney general to announce the grand jury's decision in the breonna taylor case, sergeant mattingly takes it upon himself to send an email to fellow police officers. >> it takes shot at seemingly everyone except police officers. >> he describes the protesters and others as thugs. >> that email was not read in context by the media. >> i didn't say protesters were thugs. i said the people throwing rocks, spitting on you, throwing europe urine on you are thugs. >> what message did you want to send to your fellow officers in the email you wrote? >> keep your head up. don't do anything stupid. we've got guys throwing stuff at you, taunted you. >> you say, i know we did the
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legal, moral, and ethically right thing that night. >> morally -- taking drugs off the street the the right thing to do. legally we were within the law. >> everyonic was up to the news that an announcement is coming that afternoon. >> i know if presented properly, there's going to be an indictment. >> i was nervous. i know what i did was right, but with the situation that we're dealing with, with the emotions, all the feelings, all the pressure, you don't know if that's going to have a play. >> let me show you a live look right now. this is jefferson square park. this is something everybody has been waiting. the city has it shut down. >> we went to the square and set up a phone to the speaker they have at the square to just allow everybody to hear the grand jury decision, which of course was
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being broadcasted live. >> in the matter of commonwealth versus kentucky versus brett hankison. >> people were there on the edge of their seat waiting to hear something they have been fighting for, fighting as hard as anybody could fight, and then the charges come up.up.up.up >> the jefferson county charges as count one -- >> they're bringing three counts of wanton endangerment, all against brent hankison. >> he shot a gun into the apartment okay pccupied by initials -- c.e. >> the charges aren't were endanering them, their neighbors. >> that concludes the business of the grand jury sitting for jefferson county in september 2020. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, you may be excused. >> that's it?
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>> my wife cried. i almost couldn't talk at first. it was just -- whew. this part's over. i knew it wasn't over. i knew it was just the beginning. >> brett hankison pleaded not guilty to the charges. >> tamika immediately breaks down, because she knows wanton endangerment doesn't have anything to do with death. i said, tamika, do you know who the wanton endangerment charges were for? she's crying, she says, the neighbors. the little bit of wind she had it came out at that point. it was almost like opening up the initial wounds from march 13th. >> that's it? >> is that it? >> whoa. i know that's not it. >> that's not it. >> that's not it. >> a lot of people were like, what, what -- i don't understand. they didn't understand where
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breonna taylor's name was. >> all of a sudden, all i hear is women wailing. >> how could they just get away with this? just kick a door down and just bang, bang, bang, bang, and get away with it. >> i have to live through this because you -- you did not do your job! >> take my frustration out on y'all's stupid ass, and i'm mad. >> the anger that i saw was because a person died and nobody is being held accountable. >> no justice! >> no peace. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor. >> say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> the fbi ballistics analysis concluded the fatal shot was fired by detective cosgrove. >> the attorney general expert witness why he won't be pursuing charges against officers cosgrove and mattingly. >> according to kentucky law,
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the use of force by mattingly and cosgrove was justified to protect themselves. this justification bars us from pursuing criminal charges in miss breonna taylor's death. >> i was angry. i was sad. i was disgusted. i felt disrespected. >> i kind of figured it would end up like that probably. just because that's the way things go. like, it's the police. >> breonna was black, kenny's black. you don't want it to be the case of different justice systems based on race, but i don't know how else to explain it. >> and that's when it became black and white to me, because had this been a white person, i believe that it would have came out a different way.
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what do we want? >> justice! when do we want it? >> now! >> what breonna taylor's mother got was not justice, and we're going to continue until we get justice, because change, real change, is absolutely necessary. >> it's amazing to have all these people standing up for her, saying her name. >> martin luther king once said that the riot is the language of the unheard. when people don't feel heard, they will in time lash out. >> breonna taylor's life mattered! say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> say her name! >> breonna taylor! >> this isn't going away. like, people are not satisfied. >> before curfew, a large group of protestors is walking down a street in louisville, and around the same moment that police begin to fire pepper balls and tear gas canisters, there's a ring of shots. >> shots fired. shots fired.
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>> real guns. >> they're blasting at the police. >> right there. right there. >> officer down. >> officer down. they're backing officers out. >> we got one down, we got one down. >> right now, i'm in downtown louisville at the corner of first and broadway, where there are reports of a possible officer being shot. >> we've had two officers shot tonight. this is a very dangerous condition. >> one is undergoing surgery but is stable. the other officer is alert and stable. >> after people go through this initial shock, they begin to hone in on some of the things that were said in this announcement by daniel cameron. >> while there are six possible homicide charges under kentucky law, these charges are not applicable to the facts before us because our investigation
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showed, and the grand jury agreed, that mattingly and cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire. >> i began to question whether daniel cameron actually even presented charges on behalf of breonna to the grand jury. >> the whole point of the grand jury is not to decide guilt. it's different than a regular jury. they're there to determine whether or not there's enough evidence to go to trial. >> the attorneys representing kenneth walker and breonna taylor are fighting back tonight, saying daniel cameron is not telling the whole truth. >> daniel cameron is a protege of senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell and certainly someone who is climbing the political ladder very quickly. >> he spoke at the republican convention. he is an african-american man who sees the world from the prism of law enforcement and policing. so he looked at the law, and he considered whether or not he could win this case in court. >> breonna taylor's entire
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family is heartbroken. devastated. >> two days after the grand jury's decision, breonna taylor's family, lawyers, and tamika mallory hold their own news conference. they are angry, and they want answers from the attorney general. >> the lack of investigation failed her. the judge who signed the search warrant failed her. the system as a whole has failed her. >> we are standing here today united in solidarity, declaring and demanding that he release the transcripts of the grand jury proceeding. >> they murdered breonna taylor, and until those officers are fired from this department, i promise you, i promise you, we will continue to make these streets hot. >> when breonna taylor's name first became part of this generation's language about a racist criminal justice system, there was always some hope that
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we're going to hold these people responsible. and when that didn't happen, some people were heartbroken. >> and then a juror comes forward anonymously and files a motion to release the tapes from the proceedings. >> that juror's attorney saying cameron misrepresented deliberations. >> my client wants to make sure the truth gets out. >> after making it seem like it was solely the jurors' decision to not bring other charges, cameron then goes on a local fox news station. >> your question is about whether we recommended any murder charges against cosgrove and mattingly, and the answer is no. ultimately, our judgment is that the charge that we could prove at trial beyond a reasonable doubt was for wanton endangerment against mr. hankison. >> and now to a major development in the
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members of the grand jury permission to speak out about the proceedings. >> rolling. >> everybody ready. >>? >> yes. >> and mark it. >> attorney general cameron was disingenuous with the public about how this went down with the grand jury, and that was a big mistake because grand jurors then came out with anger and fury. >> we've agreed to protect your identities. how would you like to be referred to? >> juror one. >> juror two. >> juror three. >> take me back to that news conference. attorney general cameron essentially says -- >> the grand jury agreed that mattingly and cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire. >> your reaction when you heard that? >> i came out of my chair. i said, "he just lied." >> liar. those were the words that came out of my mouth. >> grand jurors speaking out is really a big deal because the grand jury process is supposed to be secret. even the location and the venue
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was unknown to the public. >> this is a grand jury that was inquisitive. and on so many things they were stonewalled. situations where they asked about more body camera. >> we're not going to show all the videos, just because of time. >> can you show them? >> what's that ma'am? >> i said, "we have time." and it was, because i felt like, if i was gonna give my right judgment as a juror, that i needed to be presented all the evidence, and they didn't. >> grand jurors were trying to ask about the search warrant. >> we wanted to know how they obtained that warrant and we were shut down and put off. >> there's other issues in relation to the warrant that we're not getting much into here, but the officers were executing a valid search warrant. >> daniel cameron, you didn't think that was relevant? >> the scope of our investigation did not include the obtainment of that warrant. federal law enforcement partners are conducting that investigation. >> without that search warrant, police would never be at breonna taylor's apartment.
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>> when you heard that wanton endangerment was the only charge that was being presented, what was the reaction in the room? >> it was an uproar. i was livid. >> i couldn't believe it. >> we were dismayed. there was a big gasp in the room. probably more than two or three jurors said, "is that all?" >> our team walked them through every homicide offense and also presented all of the information. >> they didn't go into any details about what any additional homicide or murder charges could be. >> the grand jury saying, you didn't give us anything else. it's a gotcha moment. >> we asked if other charges could be brought against, and all they said was, no, nothing we could make stick. and that the officers had the right to defend themselves, because they had been fired upon. >> one of the issues in the case is even when you're allowed to act in self-defense under
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kentucky law, you are not allowed to just recklessly kill a third-party. >> it was excessive firepower actually, and it was from two different angles with three different police officers firing. >> they have a right to defend themselves against the threat, but is that what they did when they fire blindly into a house and shot a woman? if that's proper conduct, then yeah, maybe our police should be retrained. >> in your mind, should there have been more charges brought? >> oh, yes, undoubtedly. >> i thought one would be murder. >> i thought there was going to be a lot more charges for a lot more officers. >> the fact that they didn't get to even deliberate on charges on behalf of breonna is a huge miscarriage of justice. >> abc news reached out to attorney general cameron, who declined our request for comment, but in an interview with abc bowling green affiliate
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wbko, cameron stood by his decision. >> it was not our judgment that there were going -- that there should be other charges that the grand jury should be advised of. i know i will take a lot of criticism for that, but, uh, we did the right thing. >> ahmaud arbery died, and the justice system said, give it time. george floyd died and the justice system said, give it time. breonna taylor died, said, give it time. people gave it time, and then basically nothing. >> could there be the opportunity for us to build some serious trustful change out of a most painful situation?
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when the city council unanimously passed breonna taylor's law, which abolished no-knock warrants. >> what we have to learn from what happened to breonna is the system has to work for everyone. >> on the one hand, you hate that it's her face that's on this cause. but on the other hand it's a cause that'll definitely give some change that's been well overdue. >> she always said she was going to be famous but we never imagined her not being here to see herself famous. >> i hate that she had to die to be great. >> this is a story about how policing works in this country. more importantly, how it doesn't work. >> when we talk about justice
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for breonna taylor, it may come in the larger form of reform in the system. >> how should police behave? are they a separate entity that sort of knows better and does these investigations and they can administer what they view as justice in the community? or should it should it be an extension of what the community wants? >> we have to make sure that we set a standard that if you commit a crime and it causes someone to lose their life, there has to be consequences. >> we negotiated several items of reform. one was community relationships. the other was officer accountability, and then search warrant reform so that what happened to breonna does not happen again. >> this is where we need as a culture to rise up, and we're saying no more of this. black lives matter. >> i would say that it's harder being a black american, but no,
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it's hard football anybody. we've got to -- there's definitely some good, you know, police officers and stuff, but there's a lot of bad ones right now. black or white. depends what officers you encounter that day. >> breonna taylor is attached to me the rest of my life. >> you were called racist. are you a racist? >> not at all. this is not related to george floyd. it's not ahmaud arbery. nothing like it. these are two totally different type instances. it's not a race thing. this is not. this is not us going and hundreding somebody down, this is not kneeling on a neck. it's nothing like that. we were doing our job. >> i think what officer mattingly fails to understand is the deep seated nature of racism and the structural impediments to removing that thinking in policing. it's not just in louisville,
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it's everywhere, everywhere. it goes back 250 years. the police structure is rooted in jim crow and in slavery, and i don't expect officer mattingly to know that. but every move that he makes is linked to that history. >> clearly the system is broken because breonna taylor is dead, because george floyd is dead. these are more than just a couple of examples of officers who made some mistakes. these cases are asymptomatic of a system that is broken, that repeatedly harms people of color. >> we should not have to go through this because of the color of our skin. it's 2020 and we're still going through these changes. >> wie not going to be able to
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run from it. we're going to have to run to it and embrace it and say, this is uncomfortable. could there be the opportunity for us to build some serious trustful change out of such a painful time? we have that opportunity. whether we embrace it or not remains to be seen. >> please keep fighting. don't give up. keep going. even on your darkest days, even when you don't want to. >> breonna taylor deserves justice, and this was not justice. we got to say her name, and we have to keep fighting and they have to right this wrong. >> so we're sharing her with the world. let her be y'all common denominator to do the right thing to come together. let's not let her die in vain. let's get justice for her and make real change. ♪ say her name, won't you say her name ♪
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