A shadowy figure, an 'ambush': Officers give jumbled accounts of night Breonna Taylor died

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A shadowy figure, an 'ambush': Officers give jumbled accounts of night Breonna Taylor died
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“They know that their statements are contradicted by one another, they know they’re contradicted by the evidence, yet they never even question them about it.'

Still, the police interviews present the first picture of what the officers saw and felt during those frenetic, harried minutes when gunshots rang out and an unarmed woman lay dead in her own home.Cosgrove: I fired at a 'distorted shadowy mask'

In the March 25 interview conducted by Sgt. Amanda Seelye and Sgt. Jason Vance, Cosgrove made conflicting statements that were not challenged by either sergeant. Cosgrove described how “this darkness in front of me" was"followed by — and this is hard for me to explain — this distorted shadowy mask, this figurine, this figure in front of me that is just … coming and going due to the flash fog light.”

“Absolutely not,” Cosgrove replied. “I knew for a fact that we were in danger of being killed or seriously injured."with the city of Louisville for her wrongful death, said Cosgrove's statement was too vague to say he acted justifiably, especially given that he fired 16 times. Immediately, he said, he realized officers were poorly positioned, so he ran out of the breezeway, toward the parking lot. He described hearing “rapid fire from — from like an AR-15” and seeing flashes.

But the interview gives no indication investigators pressed the former detective on anywhere else he may have gone. Attorneys for Taylor's family have argued Hankison was unaccounted for hours that night.

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