Celebrities Speak Out After the Officers Who Killed Breonna Taylor Are Not Directly Charged Over Her Death
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marieclaire.comBreonna Taylor, a Black emergency medical technician, was shot at least five times in her Louisville apartment after white police officers Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly broke down her door on the evening of March 13, firing a total of 32 shots.
Taylor died on her hallway floor. A Kentucky grand jury declined to charge the officers over Taylor's death, it was announced yesterday, as CNNreports.
Hankison faces one charge of wanton endangerment—for firing recklessly into a neighbor's apartment. Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron said the officers were "justified in their use of force" against Taylor, because her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired one shot when their apartment door was broken down.
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