An anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case is speaking out, and they revealed that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron never presented homicide charges as an option against the police officers involved in the raid. This comes after Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Annie O'Connel granted the juror's request to speak out, calling it a "rare and extraordinary example of a case where, at the time this motion is made, the historical reasons for preserving grand jury secrecy are null."
The juror released a statement, which reads: "The grand jury was not presented any charges other than the three Wanton Endangerment charges against Detective Hankison. 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." Hankinson was indicted on three counts of first- degree wanton endangerment for shooting into Taylor's neighbor's apartment.
Cameron initially stated that the other two officers involved in the incident, Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, weren't facing charges because they were justified in firing their weapons by state investigators after Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, had fired his gun first. However, the anonymous juror states that they weren't asked to consider this part of the case.
The juror states, "The grand jury did not agree that certain actions were justified, nor did it decide the indictment should be the only charges in the Breonna Taylor case. The grand jury was not given the opportunity to deliberate on those charges and deliberate only on what was presented to them."
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