From L.P.M. Louisville Public Media.

A listener note. This episode contains audio from a traffic stop.

It was early August 2018 when Tainley decided to go run some errands.

Lee had recently graduated from high school.

He'd been Homecoming King, was working in a car dealership.

But this was his day off, so he got in the car and drove over to Thornton's gas station.

I got my chips, my slushy, and I called my mother because I didn't know how to get money out to ATM.

So I didn't know if to click withdrawal, check in saving.

Taeon Lee was 18 years old, baby-faced and soft-spoken,

the kind of 18 who makes you realize how young that really is.

He lived in Park Duval in the West End. At the gas

station he saw a police officer in an unmarked car eyeing him and he got nervous.

He stared at me at that moment. I felt uncomfortable. He gave me the look like it's going to be a problem.

Lee is testifying to the Louisville Metro Council about this incident.

He says he told his mom on the phone about the police officer. And she told me. about this

police officer. And she told me you have nothing to worry about you ain't doing

nothing wrong. By the time Lee left the gas station though, there were several

police officers there. To pull out and normally pull out, you have to pull out in front of traffic, but I mean it's not illegal.

I take a different way because I don't want to give them even no reason to pull me over.

So I take a different way to go home.

So when I take that way, not even five seconds, I look at my mirror and that officer's behind me.

Bonnie camera footage shows Louisville Metro Police Detective Kevin Crawford,

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