Comment on An Anonymous Juror in Breonna Taylor’s Case Just Made a Startling Statement

Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:25pm

An Anonymous Juror in Breonna Taylor’s Case Just Made a Startling Statement

In September, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict any police officers for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor in her home. Activists who had been demanding for months that the police be held accountable for her death were outraged. “This is the most absurd legal maneuvering that I have ever seen,” Lonita Baker, a lawyer for Taylor’s family, said in a statement afterward. Today, an anonymous grand juror made a startling disclosure about the controversial decision: The jury was not even given the option of indicting the officers for murder or homicide, even if they had wanted to.

 

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