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Anderson Cooper 360

Reaction to grand jury’s decision on Breonna Taylor’s death

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Protesters took to the streets in Louisville and other cities after no police officers were directly charged in the death of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old emergency room technician was killed in a botched police raid back in March. The former detective who was charged today is accused of "wanton endangerment" for allegedly firing blindly through a door and window, with bullets entering an adjacent apartment. He has already posted bond and been released from jail. Anderson spoke with Congresswoman Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, to get her reaction to the grand jury’s decision.   Airdate: September 23, 2020   Guest:  Rep. Karen Bass To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. We are seeing calls for justice and relatively peaceful demonstrations at this

0:05.6

moment in Louisville where a curfew goes into effect about one hour from now as a

0:09.9

sort of authorities there and elsewhere across the country prepare for the possibility

0:13.3

of fallout after Grand Jury's decision today to charge no one directly for the death of

0:17.8

Brianna Taylor, a 26 year old EMT killed by police in March. The one officer who was

0:23.3

charged for wanton endangerment has already posted bond and been released from jail. As

0:29.8

we look at these pictures of the protests through the streets we are going to keep them

0:33.6

up. We're going to Jason Carroll in Louisville for a closer look at the case. Jason.

0:38.7

Well I understand we've just now left Jefferson Square Park. You can see behind me here a fire

0:44.0

has been set. Fire was set. It's two small fires in Jefferson Square Park and then another

0:49.3

fire now being set as you can see right here some of these demonstrators setting fire to

0:54.8

this bushing a tree up the road just a little bit. They smashed a bus bus stop. A small group

1:02.0

of protesters now have broken off from the square and continuing to march at this point.

1:06.7

They say they're going to march right through the curfew which is now less than an hour away.

1:11.0

Former detective Brett Hankison faces three charges of wanted endangerment in the first

1:18.9

degree to other officers who responded that night with gunfire Jonathan Mattingley and

1:24.3

Miles Cosgrove were investigated but do not face any criminal charges. According to Kentucky

1:30.2

law the use of force by Mattingley and Cosgrove was justified to protect themselves. The charges

1:37.5

against Hankison are in relation to shots he fired that ripped through a neighboring apartment.

1:43.0

Based on the evidence there is nothing conclusive to say that Detective Hankinsons any of his bullets

1:51.8

hit Miss Taylor. In the months following Taylor's death there has been much speculation surrounding

1:57.0

the details of what happened the night on March 13th when police showed up serving a no-knock warrant.

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