The Louisville Police Department has released the incident report from the night Breonna Taylor was shot dead in her home, but it’s practically blank.
The Louisville Police Department have finally released the incident report from the night 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was shot dead by three ficers in her home, and there is a ton information missing as well as some peculiar details listed. On Wednesday (June 10th), nearly three months after Breonna died at the hands police on March 13th, the LMPD have made the incident report public. The four-page report lists the date, time, case number, and incident location, as well as the victim’s name (Breonna Shaquille Taylor), her age (26 years old), race (Black) and gender (female). However, details like Breonna’s address and date birth—information that has already become public knowledge—are noticeably missing.
Even more absurd, the report lists Breonna’s injuries as “none,” despite the fact that, according to her family’s attorneys, she was shot at least eight times by ficers and died in a pool blood on the floor in her hallway. It also checks f “no” for forced entry under charges, which read “death investigation—LMPD involved.” However, since the ficers had a “no-knock” entry warrant, they used a battering ram to bust through Breonna’s apartment door.
The report goes on to list the three ficers involved in her death—Jon Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove, and Brett Hankison—as “Offenders.” In the narrative section the incident’s events, it simply reads, “PIU investigation,” and the rest the report hasn’t been filled in at all.
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“This document is pro that LMPD continues to make a mockery transparency,” said Jon Fleischaker, counsel for the Louisville Courier Journal the USA TODAY Network and principal author the state’s Open Records law that requires the release public documents in all but extremely rare circumstances. “Under the Fischer administration, there has been a consistent policy and practice refusing to tell the public what is going on with the police, regardless how inappropriate the ficer conduct has been.”
On March 13th, Mattingly, Cosgroe, and Hankinson forcibly entered Breonna’s home to conduct a search warrant, ultimately discovering they had broken into the wrong house. The ficers claimed to have announced their presence, but Kenneth Walker, Breonna’s boyfriend, insisted they didn’t, and he fired a warning shot under the impression that they were intruders, striking Mattingly in the leg. The ficers then fired shot after shot, eight which hit Breonna while she slept. All three ficers have been placed on administrative reassignment pending the investigation, but not one has been arrested or charged.