Another member of the Breonna Taylor grand jury has spoken publicly, also declaring that jurors were not allowed to consider any charges in the March 13 fatal shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, other than wanton endangerment charges against former Officer Brett Hankinson. “The Grand Jury was only allowed to consider the three Wanton Endangerment charges against Detective Hankison,” the second anonymous juror said in a written statement, according to WHAS TV in Louisville, Kentucky. “No opportunity to consider anything else was permitted.”
That statement agrees with the first anonymous grand juror statement, released Wednesday, that stated in part that the grand jury “did not have homicide offenses explained to them. The grand jury never heard anything about those laws.” The first grand juror also wrote, “Self-defense or justification was never explained either. Questions were asked about additional charges and the grand jury was told there would be none because the prosecutors didn’t feel they could make them stick.”
A judge ordered Tuesday that grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case are now allowed to come forward and that unrecorded grand jury proceedings can be released, denying two motions by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to prevent grand jurors from speaking publicly about their deliberations. Taylor was shot and killed in her bed while sleeping as three officers executed a no-knock warrant at her residence, prompting her boyfriend to fire shots with his licensed handgun, after which officers returned fire. Hankinson was indicted on wanton endangerment charges, with no charges brought regarding Taylor’s death.
Second Breonna Taylor grand jury member says jury wasn’t allowed to consider other charges
