Family of Breonna Taylor and attorneys release statement regarding grand juror who filed a motion asking that transcripts of the hearing be released, saying they 'urge the Attorney General to release a COMPLETE and UNEDITED copy of the recording.'
A judge ordered the secret grand jury documents and recordings to be released and the new police bodycam video from after the fatal shooting.
"My client is 'aggrieved,' to use that term, that what was presented is not being publicly disclosed," the grand juror's attorney, Keven Glogower, said at a news conference on Tuesday monring. "For that reason, the only charge recommended was wanton endangerment" against a third officer involved in the shooting, Brett Hankison, Cameron said.
"The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body. It's apparent that the public interest in this case isn't going to allow that to happen," Cameron said in a statement."As the special prosecutor, our team has an ethical obligation not to release the recording from the Grand Jury proceedings, and we stand by our belief that such a release could compromise the ongoing federal investigation and could have unintended consequences such as poisoning the jury pool.
"The release of the recording will also address part of the legal motion filed by an anonymous grand juror," Cameron said. He said one witness corroborated the police officers' statements that they knocked and announced themselves before entering the apartment. He went on to say that because Walker fired the first shot, Cosgrove and Mattingly were justified in returning fire to protect themselves.However, a ballistics report from the Kentucky State Police could not determine that Walker shot Mattingly, contradicting Cameron's statements, according to records obtained by ABC News.
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