#Louisville, my native city, is the gate between North and South of fiery abolitionist speeches and disgusting slave auctions, sometimes right across the street from one another historically. #BreonnaTaylor
What @ABC2020 is doing out the gate is giving #BreonnaTaylor a humanity @LMPD and other #Louisville law enforcement leaders robbed her of from March 13, 2020 forward.
#BreonnaTaylor and Kenneth Walker had even picked out baby shoes. @ABC2020
What I hear most from Black women that hurts is that #BreonnaTaylor was doing everything the country says you should try to do to better yourself.

Get an education.

Plan a family.

She wasn't perfect.

But why is she dead? @ABC2020
. @TessaDuvall of the @courierjournal has done more to bring you all the nuances of #BreonnaTaylor's actual life than anyone. @ABC2020
People may not know this but one of #BreonnaTaylor's neighbors was a Black @LMPD officer.
The first call Kenneth Walker makes... 9-1-1. #BreonnaTaylor
"I was really thinking the police came to help." -- Kenneth Walker #BreonnaTaylor
I believe that is Brett Hankison, one of the shooters, yelling at Kenneth Walker as he's walking backwards out of the apartment.

Yeah, @TessaDuvall? #BreonnaTaylor
Kenneth Walker still reeling from the shoot out initially tells @LMPD #BreonnaTaylor is the person who shot back, which in this intense situation may explain partially why they didn't enter to administer aid.
#BreonnaTaylor is dead in the hallway.

"Alright. She's done." -- @LMPD SWAT
One @LMPD officer tells Kenneth Walker in a cruiser this is a "miscommunication" and he admits to being scared when he said #BreonnaTaylor shot at police.
Kenneth Walker and Sgt. Jon Mattingly disagree on one key point.

Walker says he fired a warning shot at the ground.

Mattingly says the shot was not to the ground.

@LMPD shoot back 32x.

#BreonnaTaylor
. @LMPD shot that apartment to pieces and shot #BreonnaTaylor 6x.

Kenneth Walker last hears her scream.
The contrast of @LMPD trying to quickly get Sgt. Jon Mattingly aid versus #BreonnaTaylor dying in the apartment hallway... for hours. @ABC2020
Tamika Palmer knows what that means when @LMPD finally tells her daughter #BreonnaTaylor is still in the apartment.
26 years is a blip of life. #BreonnaTaylor
"My family has been a victim in this." -- @LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly #BreonnaTaylor
My interview with Jemarcus Glover remains his only on the record account. He denies #BreonnaTaylor had anything to do with drugs... to this day even to the point where he was willing to face a 10 year prison sentence.
. @LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly admits the system failed but that it "failed everybody." #BreonnaTaylor
As @ABC2020 is showing the nation... this isn't the first controversial @LMPD raid based on bad information. #BreonnaTaylor
As I'll keep saying.

@LMPD is a rogue agency.

#BreonnaTaylor #Louisville #BlackLivesMatter
That Mattingly email did more harm than good as #Louisville was waiting on @DanielCameronAG's decision but it did vent how many current and retired @LMPD officers feel. #BreonnaTaylor
For weeks I had been told by multiple sources in law enforcement that only former @LMPD Officer Brett Hankison would be charged.

What was a surprise was that the charges had no connection to #BreonnaTaylor's actual death.
"Liar" is how the anonymous grand jurors describe @DanielCameronAG's press conference on the #BreonnaTaylor case.
The three anonymous grand jurors make it clear @DanielCameronAG didn't take them through all the possible charges under #Kentucky law.

They thought more charges should have been brought forth. #BreonnaTaylor
. @DanielCameronAG acknowledges he'll take a lot of criticism but that he stands by his decision. #BreonnaTaylor #KYAG
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