One of the most common misconceptions surrounding the
Breonna Taylor case is that officers utilized a “no-knock warrant,” meaning they didn’t announce themselves before entering the apartment.
However, one witness present confirmed that officers did, in fact, announce their presence.
“Evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. The officers’ statements about their announcement are corroborated by an independent witness who was near in a proximity to Apartment 4,” Cameron said.
From there,
Cameron explained that, upon entering, one of the officers saw Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, standing at the end of the hallway. This disproves the widely spread rumor that Taylor was asleep at the time of the shooting.
“Kenneth Walker fired the shot that hit Sgt. Mattingly and there is no evidence to support that Sgt. Mattingly was hit by friendly fire from other officers. Mr. Walker admitted that he fired one shot and was the first to shoot.”
Lastly, the left continues to falsely assert that Taylor was murdered by the police officers who returned fire.
Of the three officers who returned fire, two of them, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Officer Myles Cosgrove, were found to be fully justified in doing so.
The third officer, Officer Brett Hankison, who wrongly fired blindly into the apartment, is not being charged with any form of homicide. Instead, his seemingly reckless actions garnered a charge of wanton endangerment.