Ep. 345 - A New Grand Jury Must Be Convened for Breonna Taylor

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday a judge granted an original grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case the permission to speak out publicly about the hearing and their findings. What we learned was both explosive and despicable. The grand juror said that they were never even allowed to look at the evidence, in spite of requesting it, that could've caused them to charge the officers who shot and killed Breonna. This directly contradicts the words of Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron who said that the jurors themselves decided not to prosecute the cops. All of this misconduct and malfeasance warrants a new grand jury being formed. Today I'll unpack and explain how this could happen and who could do it. ---- If you listen to The Breakdown and want to help support the work we do, consider becoming a member of our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thebreakdown for exclusive members perks and early access to content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	By now all of us know the story, know the image, and know the pain of the murder of Brianna Taylor.
0:09.0	But today I want to talk about a real path to accountability and justice that still exist and
0:17.6	it begins with convening a brand new grand jury in the Brianna Taylor case. It can happen. I want to tell you how and tell you who. Let me
0:27.5	unpack and explain it. This is Sean King and you are listening to the breakdown
0:34.0	the breakdown
0:36.0	the breakdown
0:38.0	the breakdown the breakdown the breakdown A lot has actually happened this week in the Brianna Taylor case.
0:55.0	And again, I call it the Brianna Taylor case kind of with air quotes because we should be calling it
1:02.0	the case of the Louisville police officers
1:05.2	we should be naming officers like Brett Hankinson and others but in this case
1:10.0	there were several major developments this week.
1:14.0	Two in particular, one is foundational to the integrity of the case.
1:22.0	As you may recall, as you to the
1:28.0	as you may recall as you may know a grand juror
1:30.0	Let me even go back a little bit
1:38.6	The district attorney of Louisville was given this case. His name is Tom Wine. He recused himself from the case because he said he could not prosecute Brianna's boyfriend
1:46.4	and the police officers who shot Brianna at the same time.
1:50.0	He later dropped the case against Brianna's boyfriend but recused himself.
1:55.4	Well when he recused himself that then ultimately kicked the case to the attorney general of
2:01.9	Kentucky, a Republican Daniel Cameron.
2:05.0	Tom Wine, the district attorney of Louisville, is a Democrat.
2:09.0	Well, Daniel Cameron convened a grand jury, that is a secret private group of men and women.
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