Breonna Taylor grand jury was not given option to bring homicide charges, anonymous juror says

[pnwmom]

Source: WA Post

An anonymous grand juror who considered charges in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor said Tuesday that prosecutors did not walk the jury through Kentucky's homicide laws or explain why they decided the two officers who shot Taylor were justified.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's office presented the jurors only with the first-degree wanton endangerment charges that they agreed to bring against a third officer involved, the juror said in a statement. The juror said the panel asked about additional charges and prosecutors told them there would not be any because they "didn't feel they could make them stick."

"The grand jury didn't agree that certain actions were justified, nor did it decide the indictment should be the only charges in the Breonna Taylor case," the unidentified juror said. "The grand jury was not given the opportunity to deliberate on those charges and deliberated only on what was presented to them."

The juror's public statement came minutes after a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge ruled that jurors could speak publicly about the proceedings for the sake of transparency and public trust in the investigation. Cameron (R) had opposed the juror's request, arguing that letting the juror discuss what happened would be unfair to witnesses and other jurors.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/20/breonna-taylor-grand-juror-says-no-homicide-charges-offered/?fbclid=IwAR1KI_B0o3CnOR-V9VxCtw20HJ_UiJu2Qi9X2AXaMM1TnLNBIU_6WV_6pks

[mysteryowl]

1. This particular Grand Jury has set a precedent

Future controversial Grand Jury rulings can now be challenged by the jury members themselves to bring it out in the open.
That is a very key and important outcome.

Thank you to the courageous juror that stepped forward to start the ball rolling.

[Diraven]

2. Spin

Seemed like Cameron tried to spin it that it was the jurors that exonerated the officers in that grand jury press conference, while being ever so careful not to say so explicitly.

[jaysunb]

3. Cameron seems to be a student of Billy Barr in the art of obstruction. Nt

[Gothmog]

4. Cameron lied about this grand jury

[elias7]

5. No knock break-ins in the middle of the night are just begging for a disaster

That policy, though designed with understandable intent, is absurd and dangerous.

[malthaussen]

6. In other words, the fix was in. n/t