Two of the grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case said that the actions of the police in Louisville, Kentucky, that led to the high-profile killing were “negligent” and “criminal.”
The jurors sat down with journalist Gayle King for an interview set to air Wednesday on “CBS This Morning.” Each juror was identified as “Juror One” and “Juror Two” in order to remain anonymous. CBS released portions of the interview on Tuesday, in which the jurors’ faces were blurred.
King asked the jurors what they thought of the police officers’ actions the night they carried out a botched warrant search on Taylor’s apartment, when they fatally shot her in the early hours of March 13. Juror One said: “Negligent.”
“They couldn’t even provide a risk assessment, and it sounded like they hadn’t done one,” Juror One said. “So their organization leading up to this was lacking. That’s what I mean by they were negligent in the operation.”
Juror Two more matter-of-factly said that the officers’ actions were “criminal.”
“Leading up to this in everything that they ― the way they moved forward on it, including the warrant, was deception,” Juror Two said.
