Updates: Kentucky prosecutor맥스카지노™s recommendations, statements not included in audio files
After a delay earlier this week, Attorney General Daniel Cameron's office released hours worth of grand jury records from the Breonna Taylor investigation.
Cameron was granted a two-day extension on Wednesday, the day he was originally supposed to release the recordings after a judge's ruling earlier in the week.
The attorney general requested a week's delay to redact personal details from a nearly 20-hour file, but the judge only allowed two days.
The recordings were released Friday afternoon.
비바카지노 Viva is analyzing the content of the tapes and will provide updates on what we've learned below:
- Cameron's Office says the Kentucky prosecutor맥스카지노™s opening statements and recommendations not included in the released audio files.
- During an interview with LMPD's Public Integrity Unit Brett Hankison explains that he believed Kenneth Walker was armed with an AR-15, or some type of long rifle.
- Grand jurors question time lapse between 911 calls from neighbors and Walker. DA investigator says officers on scene around 12:35 a.m. March 13.
They begin executing 12:40 a.m. First 911 call comes in around 12:43:53 March 13. Next call 12:44:08. Next 12:45. Walker calls at 12:50:13 a.m.
"Can't begin to speculate what he was doing, why he waited," DA investigator says.
- Kenneth Walker calls 911, tells operator about his girlfriend being shot. He's audibly crying as he's talking to the operator. This audio is being played to the grand jury.
- One 911 caller says she was in bed and jumped up. The caller tells the operator that they can hear the gunfire because it is "so close." Kenneth Walker's 911 call is made around 12:50 a.m. the night of the raid.
- Sept. 21 (3) includes 911 calls from neighbors and Kenneth Walker. One of the grand jurors asks about the length of the time lapse between the 911 calls and Walker's call.
- Sept. 22 (1) is the audio recording that was played for the grand jury. That recording features Hankison. He details some of the background before the raid.
- File dated Sept. 22 (1) is former officer Brett Hankison's public integrity unit interview. He's the only officer that was indicted in the investigation, charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for shots that went into a neighboring apartment.
- The first recording is just over 37 minutes long. It starts out with a member of the AG's office who works in criminal investigations. Some of the things he details:
- Goes through enlarged photographs of Springfield Drive apartment complex where Breonna Taylor lived with Kenneth Walker (her boyfriend).
- These photographs are presumably being shown to the grand jury.
- The AG member also details key characters in photographs, including Breonna Taylor, Kenneth Walker and the three officers at the center of the probe.
- The recordings are dated between Sept. 21 and Sept. 23. The files include about 20 hours of material.
- Files are from different dates throughout the investigation. They involve different individuals in the probe, including figures from the AG's office.
- 비바카지노 Viva sorting through recordings. There are 14 files.
- Files officially sent out.
- AG's office tentatively set to release recordings around noon.
Scroll below for more background
Friday's scheduled release comes as the attorney general continues to face scrutiny from the public and advocate for Taylor, and her family questions the process of the probe.
It also comes after one of the grand jurors filed a motion in court calling for the full release of the transcripts and investigative materials to get out "the full story and absolute truth of how this matter was handled."
Cameron defended his actions in the probe during a Fox News segment Thursday.
Cameron's office investigated Taylor's death for several months and a week ago, after days of meeting, the grand jury delivered its report. It was announced that Hankison, one of three officers who fired shots that night, would be the sole officer to face charges.
We now know that the grand jury was not asked to consider any other charges, including any against the two other officers involved, Sgt. John Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove.
Cameron said in a statement Tuesday it is because his investigation found that evidence supported that the two were justified in shooting since Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired first.
This means the grand jury did not decide for or against charges on those officers -- Cameron's office did.
There has been public outcry for more transparency about what the grand jury was actually presented with to come to its conclusion.
It remains unclear what exactly the recordings will reveal.
Cameron asserted Tuesday, when he agreed to comply with the judge's order, that he is confident the public will see a thorough case was presented.