Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, the Louisville, Kentucky police officer shot and wounded during the March 13 raid on Breonna Taylor\u2019s apartment that resulted in her police shooting death, has filed a counterclaim against Kenneth Walker, Taylor\u2019s boyfriend, in Walker\u2019s lawsuit against the city of Louisville and others. Mattingly\u2019s filing reads, in part, \u201cWalker did intentionally shoot Mattingly or acted recklessly in firing his pistol in the direction of the Police Officers who were serving a search warrant,\u201d conduct the filing claims is \u201coutrageous, intolerable, and offends all accepted standards of decency and morality.\u201d It also reads: \u201cWalker\u2019s conduct has caused Defendant Mattingly severe trauma, mental anguish, and emotional distress.\u201d Mattingly is asking for a trial by jury and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walker fired his licensed handgun when he heard police at his door executing a no-knock warrant on Taylor\u2019s residence the night of the incident. While an FBI ballistics report determined Walker shot Mattingly, Walker and his attorneys continue to dispute this. Taylor was killed by return police gunfire as she slept in her bed. Initial charges against Taylor were dropped, and on September 1 he filed suit against the commonwealth of Kentucky, and city of Louisville and the Louisville Police Department, seeking immunity from future prosecution under Kentucky\u2019s \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law. Walker is also seeking damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, the Louisville, Kentucky police officer shot and wounded during the March 13 raid on Breonna Taylor\u2019s apartment that resulted in her police shooting death, has filed a counterclaim against Kenneth Walker, Taylor\u2019s boyfriend, in Walker\u2019s lawsuit against the city of Louisville and others. Mattingly\u2019s filing reads, in part, \u201cWalker did intentionally shoot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/28304734-0-image-a-37_1589293445263.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}