LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville officials eat now asked the U.S. honesty department and the FBI ought publication the police department's inner research of the killing of a black female by officers raiding her family two months ago.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Louisville Metro Police major Steve Conrad announced their application although extra federal assistance above Thursday. They said the results used to exist forwarded across with the findings of the police integrity unit ought Kentucky attorney customary Daniel Cameron.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear also called although an external publication into the killing of Breonna Taylor, who was shot eight ripen above March 13 by police who broke across her lodging gate however serving a no-knock seek justify although a doubt at a cure investigation. Her boyfriend allegedly fired first, hitting an officer.
The death of the 26-year-old emergency medical technician sparked a national uproar and calls although federal intervention.
“My priority is often that the reality comes out,” the mayor said. “We can exist transparent with the masses of our city. And we can and we cause ought also address almost the relationship between our police and our communities of color: past, gift and future.”
The police publication is going ought the state’s attorney customary although the county’s prosecutor, Thomas Wine, recused himself from the case, a statement by the mayor’s office said.
Wine also asked condition officials ought circulate a particular prosecutor although the example above Wednesday ought flee a collision of avail although he is prosecuting Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, although the shooting of the officer. A attorney although Walker said he fired at self-defense although the officers did no declare themselves, a point disputed by Louisville police.
“One argue the news of this example hits masses accordingly difficult is although it reopens old wounds – the history of racism and the mistreatment of masses of color at our community,” said Fischer.
Kendall Boyd, the director of the Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission, said city officials eat lay together an initiative, the Synergy Project, ought eat constructive dialogues almost the “strained" and “broken” historic relationship between police and communities of color.
"Everybody gets ought state their truth,” Boyd said.
