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Prosecutor to dismiss charges against dead nigger Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, wants more investigation
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Dave Cross
May 23, 2020, 8:45:02 PM5/23/20
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Saying the case demands more investigation,
Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine announced Friday his office
will move to dismiss all charges against Breonna Taylor’s
boyfriend after he fired a gun in her apartment and seriously
wounded a police sergeant.
Kenneth Walker, 27, was charged with attempted murder and
assault in the March 13 incident in which plain-clothes officers
fatally shot Taylor while executing a “no-knock” search warrant
at her apartment.
"I believe that additional investigation is necessary," Wine
said.
But Wine said Walker's case could be presented to a grand jury a
second time, depending on the results of investigations by the
FBI and Kentucky Attorney General’s Office.
The prosecutor also delivered a strong defense of the police who
executed the search warrant of Taylor’s home, saying evidence
clearly shows that police knocked on her door multiple times
before using a battering ram to get in.
Still, Walker's attorney, Rob Eggert, said he was "thrilled" by
the dismissal.
Minute by minute: What happened the night Louisville police
fatally shot Breonna Taylor
"Theoretically, they can bring it back," he said, "but now he is
freed from home incarceration and can go on with his life."
Walker had previously been released from jail in March and
placed on home incarceration.
Attorneys for Taylor's family, Ben Crump, Sam Aguiar and Lonita
Baker, said in a statement that the charges never should have
been filed.
"This is a belated victory for justice and a powerful testament
to the power of advocacy," they said. “Kenneth Walker and
Breonna Taylor did everything right the night police ambushed
their home."
Police say they knocked '6 or 7' times
In an unusual news conference, Wine played statements from
Walker on the night of the shooting in which he acknowledged
that someone repeatedly banged on the door.
Angrily disputing assertions that police didn't knock, Wine told
reporters that is "clearly refuted by one person inside that
apartment who knows best what happened — Walker.”
Wine also played a statement from Sgt. John Mattingly, who
Walker allegedly shot, and who said officers announced on "six
or seven occasions" that they were police and had a warrant.
Wine said that ultimately a jury will have to decide if Walker
was truthful when he said he didn’t hear that, which Wine said
would depend on "what you think of his credibility."
Wine played another clip which showed that Walker initially told
police that it was Taylor who fired the single shot from inside
the apartment that wounded Mattingly.
Walker said he said that because "I was scared."
https://www.courier-
journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/22/prosecutor-dismisses-
charges-against-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-kenneth-
walker/5219308002/
Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine announced Friday his office
will move to dismiss all charges against Breonna Taylor’s
boyfriend after he fired a gun in her apartment and seriously
wounded a police sergeant.
Kenneth Walker, 27, was charged with attempted murder and
assault in the March 13 incident in which plain-clothes officers
fatally shot Taylor while executing a “no-knock” search warrant
at her apartment.
"I believe that additional investigation is necessary," Wine
said.
But Wine said Walker's case could be presented to a grand jury a
second time, depending on the results of investigations by the
FBI and Kentucky Attorney General’s Office.
The prosecutor also delivered a strong defense of the police who
executed the search warrant of Taylor’s home, saying evidence
clearly shows that police knocked on her door multiple times
before using a battering ram to get in.
Still, Walker's attorney, Rob Eggert, said he was "thrilled" by
the dismissal.
Minute by minute: What happened the night Louisville police
fatally shot Breonna Taylor
"Theoretically, they can bring it back," he said, "but now he is
freed from home incarceration and can go on with his life."
Walker had previously been released from jail in March and
placed on home incarceration.
Attorneys for Taylor's family, Ben Crump, Sam Aguiar and Lonita
Baker, said in a statement that the charges never should have
been filed.
"This is a belated victory for justice and a powerful testament
to the power of advocacy," they said. “Kenneth Walker and
Breonna Taylor did everything right the night police ambushed
their home."
Police say they knocked '6 or 7' times
In an unusual news conference, Wine played statements from
Walker on the night of the shooting in which he acknowledged
that someone repeatedly banged on the door.
Angrily disputing assertions that police didn't knock, Wine told
reporters that is "clearly refuted by one person inside that
apartment who knows best what happened — Walker.”
Wine also played a statement from Sgt. John Mattingly, who
Walker allegedly shot, and who said officers announced on "six
or seven occasions" that they were police and had a warrant.
Wine said that ultimately a jury will have to decide if Walker
was truthful when he said he didn’t hear that, which Wine said
would depend on "what you think of his credibility."
Wine played another clip which showed that Walker initially told
police that it was Taylor who fired the single shot from inside
the apartment that wounded Mattingly.
Walker said he said that because "I was scared."
https://www.courier-
journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/22/prosecutor-dismisses-
charges-against-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-kenneth-
walker/5219308002/
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