The family of Breonna Taylor believes that the investigation conducted by the Kentucky Attorney General was a coverup.
The Taylor family’s attorney Benjamin Crump appeared as a guest on Anderson Cooper’s show on Thursday.
“We do believe it was a coverup from go. They always intended to sweep this under the rug as if Breonna Taylor’s life didn’t matter,” Crump told Cooper.
Officer Brett Hankison, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove entered Taylor’s apartment on March 13 on a “no-knock” warrant.
Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, says that the officers failed to identify themselves and said that he fired a shot, as he believed them to be intruders.
Police then “wantonly’ fired off several rounds.
Hankison was charged with wanton endangerment — not for shooting and killing Taylor, but for blindly firing bullets that entered a nearby apartment occupied by three white neighbors.
According to KMOV, a lawyer representing Taylor’s neighbors said his clients were “very happy he (Hankison) was indicted for shooting their apartment, and disappointed the other officers aren’t being held accountable for the actions they took that night.”
Taylor’s family is “heartbroken” and “outraged,” Crump said. “They were baffled by what Kentucky Attorney General David Cameron actually presented to the grand jury. Did he present any evidence at all on behalf of Breonna Taylor?”
Crump added, “they had the audacity to say there were no injuries, yet Breonna was executed there in the hallway of her apartment.”
The grand jury’s decision not to charge any of the officers directly with Taylor’s murder has sparked outrage across the country.
