The Kentucky Attorney General released the recordings of grand jury testimony in the Breonna Taylor case but withheld any notes or comments on the prosecutors’ recommendations and statements, or juror deliberations, the Associated Press reports.
Prosecutors’ statements and juror deliberations aren’t typically recorded, but they do collect notes and provide statements to the grand jury for their consideration.
The grand jury failed to indict any of the three officers involved for the homicide of Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who was unarmed when she was shot six times by officers who breach the front door of the apartment.
The grand jury did file three indictments against an officer who fired more than 10 round through a curtained plate-glass patio door, with some of those rounds penetrating an adjoining apartment, in which three people were sleeping.
A key discrepancy in the grand jury testimony was a statement by officer Lt. Shawn Hoover, in which he claimed to have knocked on the apartment door and announced that they were police three times in a minute.
That contradicts the statement of the only witness who testified he heard officers announce themselves: the truck driver, who was on the landing of a nearby apartment after coming home from a night shift, testified he only heard them announce themselves once. Twelve other neighbors testified they didn’t hear police knock or announce themselves before hearing the door knocked down.