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October 15, 2020

Breonna Taylor's Boyfriend Says Police Never Identified Themselves During Fatal Raid
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In Louisville, Kentucky, Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker said
Wednesday that police officers did not attempt to save Taylor as she lay
dying in her own home after she was struck by a hail of police gunfire
last March. Walker also told CBS's Gayle King that no one identified
themselves in the deadly no-knock police raid that led to Breonna
Taylor's death.

Kenneth Walker: "There was a loud bang at the door. Nobody was
responding, when we were saying, 'Who is it?'"

Gayle King: "You all did ask, 'Who is it?'"

Kenneth Walker: "Several times. Several times, both of us. And there was
no response."

Gayle King: "You know, the police say that they said several times,
'It's the police.'"

Kenneth Walker: "If they knock on the door and say who it was, we could
hear them. It was dead silent. I know, a million percent sure, that
nobody identified themselves."

This comes less than a month after a grand jury failed to charge any of
the three officers who conducted the raid with the killing of Breonna
Taylor. On Wednesday, a second grand juror joined a motion to lift the
gag order on the grand jury proceedings in order to speak publicly about
the decision.


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