A ghostly downtown Louisville braces for Breonna Taylor grand jury decision

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The police department in Louisville, Kentucky, was restricting vehicle access downtown on Tuesday ahead of an expected decision by a grand jury on whether to indict the police officers involved in killing Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, in a botched raid.

Although the timing of any decision remains unclear, on Tuesday morning courthouses, offices and restaurants were already boarded up in the mostly deserted blocks around the city’s Jefferson Square Park, the site of regular demonstrations by people protesting police brutality against Black people.

Taylor, 26, was killed shortly after midnight on March 13 when three plainclothes officers used a battering ram to force their way in to her Louisville home with a so-called no knock warrant. Fearing intruders, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a gun. The three officers fired their guns, striking Taylor five times.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Black Republican, has said his investigation into Taylor’s death is ongoing, but has declined to confirm media reports that he is convening a grand jury to vote on whether to bring criminal charges against the officers. “Our goal with these steps is ensuring space and opportunity for potential protesters to gather and express their First Amendment rights,” his statement said.

 

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Basically the cops showed up. Actually knocked and one cop got shot, then they returned fire. Unfortunately she died. The cops did what they are supposed to do, so destroy your town. This country has no principles, so trash it. Best society ever created, trash it. Joke

I lived in and around Louisville for 20 years until last year. This is just sad to me.

Did you report any other deaths in America?

They could have just said they’re not going to charge him and avoid all this fanfare

Get your Louisville Sluggers ready.

No no no it's a decision on whether her murderers will be held to account

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