Cop in grand jury testimony: Breonna Taylor's boyfriend initially stated Taylor shot at officers

The grand jury testimony has been released in the Breonna Taylor case and the story has changed from what was originally reported. In a March 13 raid on Taylor's apartment, a police officer was shot in the leg and fire was returned by police that resulted in the death of Ms. Taylor.

According to former Officer Brett Hankison, Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, "had told him 'she was the one who shot at us," the Daily Mail reported Friday. "Walker later said that he was the one who opened fire."

The truth is out there.

Adding to the credulity of Hankison's statement, the Daily Mail noted that "One of Taylor's neighbors also told investigators that police had told her that 'some drug-dealing girl shot an officer.'"

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) agreed to release recordings from the grand jury proceedings in the case after one former juror said that "certain questions were left unanswered. The AG suggested that information presented to the grand jury was different from what Cameron presented publicly, as reported by The Daily Wire.

The report states that officers said they knocked and announced themselves for up to one-to-two minutes before breaking down the apartment door.

“We knocked on the door, said ‘police,’ waited, I don’t know 10 or 15 seconds. Knocked again, said ‘police,’ waited even longer,” said Lt. Shawn Hoover in a recording from the day of the raid, the Daily Mail reported.

“So it was the third time that we were approaching, it had been like 45 seconds if not a minute,” said Lt. Shawn Hoover. “And then I said, ‘Let’s go, let’s breach it.'”

According to Detective Michael Nobles, “officers made so much noise that an upstairs neighbor came outside and had to be told to go back inside,” the report stated.

Taylor was fatally shot during the raid after plainclothes officers returned fire. Walker, who had a legally registered gun, claimed he fired at the officers not knowing who was at the door, believing they might be “intruders.”

The truth is out there.

Hoover claimed in his testimony that he believed the officers were “ambushed” by the pair.

“We were, in my opinion, we were ambushed,” he said. “They knew we were there. I mean, hell, the neighbors knew we were there.”

AG Cameron announced last week that “witness testimony indicated officers appeared to correctly execute a search warrant on Taylor’s apartment in connection with a drug case and that the two other officers involved in an ensuing shootout with Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were justified in their use of force because Walker fired first.”

Two officers in the case were cleared, and another was charged with wanton endangerment in the first degree — which comes with a maximum sentence of five years — for shooting into a neighboring apartment while returning gunfire sparked by Taylor’s boyfriend. 

Hopefully, he will not face a prison sentence because that can often be a death sentence when it involves a cop.

One thing is clear, there is absolutely no reason to believe that this was a racially motivated shooting, in spite of what the left claims.

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