Judge Mary Shaw says she's concerned a detective may have lied to get the warrant for Breonna Taylor's home.
Records show LMPD officers were told no packages for Jamarcus Glover had been delivered in the months before she was shot and killed:
NEW: Six LMPD officers are under internal investigation for their roles in the fatal raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment — including three additional detectives who were at her home but didn't fire their weapons.
Breaking: A grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case has filed a lawsuit seeking the public release of grand jury recordings and the right to disclose information about the process.
"Choose truth. Choose justice."
.
@kyoag
responds: “The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body. It’s apparent that the public interest in this case isn’t going to allow that to happen.”
Statement also says his office will comply with a judge’s order to release the recording on Wednesday.
After three hours of discussion, the proposal has passed in a 7-0 vote.
Chairwoman Jessica Green calls for a special committee meeting on Monday for further amendments before the legislation heads to the full Metro Council for its consideration next Thursday.
Attorney
@Samaguiar1982
on the Hankison indictment: "Way to really rub it in. Three counts for the shots into the apartment of the white neighbors, but no counts for the shots into the apartment of the black neighbors upstairs..."
Some personnel news: Today is my last day at
@courierjournal
.
I’m so grateful for the past four and a half years in Louisville and for the opportunities to work, grow and learn in this special newsroom. I’ll miss y’all.
Attorney
@samaguiar1982
: "If discharging your weapon more than 22 times blindly into a home and then leaving the scene of a shooting aren't enough to get you fired — or at least suspended without pay — what kind of precedent does that set?"
NEW: Louisville's deputy general counsel says in a memo obtained by
@courierjournal
that officers in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor can't be suspended without pay due to a "lack of indisputable evidence of wrongdoing."
"Before this community starts to heal, we must rectify harm that has been done. Part of that reconciliation is passing legislation and getting rid of practices that continue to terrorize and harm communities."
'Breonna's Law' takes a first step:
Gregory Bush, the Kroger shooting suspect, has been indicted on federal hate crime charges that could bring a sentence of life without parole or even the death penalty:
Next month, I’m heading back home to Maryland to work for
@baltimoresun
and cover county cops and courts.
*insert joke about following in Lamar Jackson’s footsteps*
My first day is Dec. 13. Can’t wait to get started!
NEW: For at least five minutes after being shot, Breonna Taylor struggled, coughing, according to her boyfriend.
Help didn’t come, records show.
The first radio dispatch about Taylor was more than 20 minutes after the shooting:
Detective Joshua Jaynes, who wrote in a sworn affidavit he'd verified with the postal inspector about packages at Breonna Taylor's apartment, told investigators in May that, actually, he'd asked another LMPD officer to check:
UPDATE: When
@JCPSKY
closed schools at 4:45 a.m., there were roughly 1,270 teacher absences with several hundred more anticipated. More than 120 schools had unfilled classrooms and 20 schools had double-digit teacher absences.
"They want justice for Breonna Taylor.
They're Black women who've had enough."
@bloosemore
's look at the Black women stepping into leadership roles in Louisville's fight for racial justice is in print today and it is beautiful:
Mayor Fischer says his team is working to release portions of LMPD’s Public Integrity Unit file. But
@VICENews
/
@robferdman
scooped him on some damning footage.
Safe to say calls to release the full file won’t be going away anytime soon.
Inbox: Louisville Metro Police says the department served Officer Cory Evans with pretermination paperwork today.
Background on the federal charge against him stemming from an incident where he struck a kneeling protester in the back of the head:
New: Attorney General Daniel Cameron is asking to delay for one week the release of the grand jury recordings in the controversial Breonna Taylor decision.
NEW: Former detective Brett Hankison has been indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for his role in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. The other two officers were not indicted by the grand jury.
Inbox: A second anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case who is looking to speak is being represented by the same attorney as the first. Both are "resolute in their desire for truth and transparency."
Background from
@TessaDuvall
:
I’m not going to say that no protesters care about George Floyd. But Breonna Taylor’s fatal police shooting *in Louisville* has been far more of a rallying point. If you read any local coverage or spoke to any local protesters, you would know that.
The police chief of Louisville, Kentucky, has been fired after officials discovered two police officers involved in fatal shooting of a man during a protest over George Floyd's death had not activated their body cameras
NEW: The Kentucky Attorney General's Office ruled that Louisville agencies aren't yet required to turn over records including:
- Breonna Taylor's autopsy
- police radio recordings/AIRs
- body cam from other warrants that night
- Kenneth Walker's case file
They're holding American flags (and one that says "Don't Tread on Me). There are about 50 gathered. And they have a blow horn. Chants of "America First!" and "Move the tent, pay some rent"
When
@courierjournal
requested records about sexual abuse in the Explorers program, LMPD and the county attorney's office said they'd been sent to the FBI.
That wasn't true. LMPD still had at least 738,000 records, which the city allowed to be deleted.
Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s mother, to AG Daniel Cameron: “Do you have the power and courage to call my child yours, the power to see that my cry and my community’s cry is heard, and the power as part of a village who raises our children to do right by one of our daughters?!”
For Kenneth Walker, there is no normal.
"For you to lose somebody, and then have to deal with it every day, like forever?" he said. "Like, it never stops. That's something."
“My apartment was hit too,” Stanley David said. “The bullet that came through my floor right in front of my bedroom door, if that bullet went through my bed, maybe I would have been dead too.
“I’m a human being too.”
ICYMI: Christopher 2X says he's heard from a second grand juror who also wants to "freely say, 'Here's my version of what happened with the Breonna Taylor evidence that we were presented with.'"
.
@SadiqaReynolds
on
@louisvillemayor
: "... The man that sat with me in the church bombed by hateful men in Birmingham is no longer the guy I see. That guy deserves to lead the Conference of Mayors. This guy lately, deserves to have his political career ended with an asterisk*."
This is significant.
@Sromines
is now questioning whether Kenneth Walker's shot was actually the one that struck Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly at Breonna Taylor's apartment.
"We know police are firing wildly from all angles," he told
@courierjournal
.
A story about a fleur-de-lis I wrote in less than 20 minutes has done better online than an actually consequential story about scores of city public employees who are still unvaccinated and interacting with residents on a daily basis and
... sometimes this job is exhausting.
NEW: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Lucy McBath are calling for an immediate federal investigation into the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor and asking DOJ to look into any "pattern or practice" of constitutional violations at LMPD:
NEW: A judge has ruled that Mayor Greg Fischer's administration officials must testify in open session in Louisville Metro Council's investigation into the Breonna Taylor case, David McAtee's death and ongoing protests.
The
@courierjournal
is seeking immediate release of
@LMPD
's investigation into Breonna Taylor's death.
"It's hard to imagine a more compelling case of the public needing to have faith and trust in the organizations that are conducting the investigation."
New: The LMPD officer under investigation for shooting pepper balls at a TV crew during protests was nominated days after the incident for an Exceptional Merit Award for his role in protest response.
New: The LMPD officer who fired pepper balls at a TV news crew during protests over Breonna Taylor's police killing is under federal investigation.
LMPD says Dusten Dean is still under an internal investigation for policy violations:
And
@Diva_Attorney
: "I can't make it make sense in my head. Wanton endangerment to a neighboring apartment constitutes wanton endangerment to Breonna."
NEW:
@courierjournal
has filed suit over a series of "secret" teleconferences between Metro Council and the mayor about COVID-19 and Breonna Taylor protest responses.
"Times of crisis are the most important times for transparency," one attorney said.
NEW: A judge has found interim LMPD Chief Robert Schroeder "failed to comply with a lawful subpoena" by the Louisville Metro Council.
And she has ordered Schroeder to testify on Sept. 28 — before his Oct. 1 retirement — or be held in contempt.
The investigation is expected to look into:
-
@louisvillemayor
’s handling of the Breonna Taylor case
- events surrounding the David McAtee shooting
- use of force during protests
More details to come at 2 p.m. news conference.
Former LMPD detective Joshua Jaynes, fired by a chief who found he'd lied in the search warrant for Breonna Taylor's apartment, will not be reinstated by the police merit board.
Unanimous 4-0 vote to uphold the chief's decision.
Hi,
@kyoag
! We included your spokeswoman's statement to that effect in the story (screenshot attached). She has my email address, if you want to discuss the headline in a productive fashion, rather than a subtweet!
This is misleading. We are complying with the Judge’s order. The Grand Jury audio recording is more than 20 hrs long, & we filed a motion to request additional time, if the court permits it, to redact personally identifiable information of witnesses (addresses and phone numbers).
Daniel Cameron, the state's newly elected attorney general, on stage now. "Thank all of you all tonight for the support you all provided this whole entire GOP ticket," he says.
thinking about the time a guy asked flirtatiously what my guilty pleasure was and I said “going to the movies alone” and he stopped responding
anyway, this time there are two other solo moviegoers here with me before the previews start 🥲
.
@kyoag
responds: “The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body. It’s apparent that the public interest in this case isn’t going to allow that to happen.”
Statement also says his office will comply with a judge’s order to release the recording on Wednesday.
I understand there is something happening on the TikTok regarding skinny jeans and middle parts. My only comment on the matter: It is the youth's God-given right to find me horrifyingly uncool the older I get and I shan't interfere
Public Integrity Unit investigators in a July 2 summary wrote that the "wording on the affidavit is misleading" and "given Jaynes' statement ... should be reviewed for criminal actions."
Full story:
Today is my four-year anniversary at
@courierjournal
and I’ve only aged 85 years!! I’m very grateful to get to learn & get better here, and also to sources who tell me things they shouldn’t and/or return my calls even when I’ve made them mad
Pros of an early morning hike:
- stress relief
- peace & quiet
- no crowds/COVID risk
Cons:
- SPIDERS
- SPIDERWEBS
- becoming a walking cobweb
- spiderwebs in the mouth
- spiderwebs in the face
- MORE SPIDERS
That witness
@kyoag
said confirmed that police announced before breaking down Breonna Taylor's door?
On March 21, he said the exact opposite.
"No, nobody identify themself," he told investigators, according to investigative documents.
Thanks to
@CBSNews
for having me on to talk about the latest updates in the Breonna Taylor case! Can cross “do a TV interview” off my reporter bucket list now 🤗
LMPD is moving to fire Detective Joshua Jaynes, who swore out an affidavit for the search warrant for Breonna Taylor's house.
An attorney for Jaynes says Detective Myles Cosgrove, who fired his weapon, is also facing a pre-termination hearing.
Studies show the best way to ring in a new year is eating mass amounts of sushi and watching
@taylorswift13
’s concert doc with ur roommate. It’s science, sorry
New: Detective Myles Cosgrove didn't "properly identify a target" when he fired 16 rounds, striking Breonna Taylor at least twice, according to a copy of the chief's pre-termination letter obtained by
@courierjournal
.
Councilwoman Keisha Dorsey on the protest: "It is not a riot. It is a revolt against a system in which people have felt oppressed. What I'm seeing is people who are trying their best to do something with their hurt, their pain and their frustration."
"Using the grand jurors as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility for these decisions only sows more seeds of doubt in the process while leaving a cold chill down the spines of future grand jurors."
Some drama among counter-protesters: people chanting "white power" are being kicked out by the Three Percenters because they say racism isn't welcome on this side