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Grand Jury Announces Charges Against Only One Louisville Officer – But None in Killing of Breonna Taylor

A grand jury has announced criminal charges against a single Louisville, Kentucky police officer, but no charges in the March 13 killing of Breonna Taylor. The charges are against former officer Brett Hankison and include wanton endangerment, unrelated to Taylor’s killing. No homicide charges were announced.
The charges are being described as insufficient by MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.
.@TheRevAl reacts to 1 former Louisville police officer indicted by grand jury on charges of “wanton endangerment” in relation to the Breonna Taylor shooting case: “I think it’s grossly insufficient.”
“When we say Black Lives Matter, this indictment says, it does not matter.” pic.twitter.com/aXBWrkB2Vq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 23, 2020
“It feels to me like these charges entirely delete the murder” of Breonna Taylor, MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid commented on the network after the charges were announced. “This was a Black Lives Don’t Matter ruling.”
“They can just shoot you,” she lamented.
“There’s nothing in this charge that mentions Breonna Taylor,” she continued. “There’s no charge that says you need to at least care” about the lives of others, Reid said.
The Nation’s Elie Mystal weighs in:
They’re basically saying that shooting at #BreonnaTaylor WAS LIKE SHOOTING INTO THE AIR.
Black Lives could not matter LESS to these people.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 23, 2020
Live video:
BREAKING: NBC News Special Report: Grand jury presents its Breonna Taylor case report to judge. https://t.co/yVtmGtdr5w
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 23, 2020
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