The attorney for Breonna Taylor’s family says he won’t accept the findings of a Kentucky grand jury until the state’s attorney general releases the transcripts from the proceedings.
Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump called on Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to provide “transparency” to a grand jury ruling that failed to indict any of the police officers at the scene of Taylor’s shooting with charges specific to her death.
“If you want us to accept the results, then release the transcript so we can have transparency,” Crump said during a Friday morning news conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot and killed by three plainclothes officers in March who were serving a warrant at her house in a drug raid. Early reports suggested that the officers had served a “no-knock” warrant and had shot Taylor during a shooting exchange with her boyfriend. But Cameron announced on Wednesday that officers had presented themselves and that Taylor’s boyfriend had fired on them first.
One of the three officers involved is being charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment of Taylor’s neighbors.
Crump demanded to know whether or not evidence was present on Taylor’s behalf.
“Did [Cameron] present any evidence on Breonna Taylor’s behalf? Or did he make a unilateral decision to put his thumb on the scales of justice?” Crump asked.
Thousands took to the streets in Louisville and across the United States over the past two nights in response to the ruling.
