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Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recordings Describe Moments Before Police Shooting
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1:30Now PlayingPolice said they knocked repeatedly and identified themselves for a minute or more before using a battering ram to enter Breonna Taylor's apartment, according to Kentucky grand jury recordings released Friday, then killed her in a rapid hail of gunfire after the first officer inside her door was struck by a bullet.
But Taylor's boyfriend, who fired on the officers, said in an police interviewing played for the jury that he did not hear them announce themselves.
If they had, he noted, "it changes the whole situation because there was nothing for us to be scared of."
The dueling accounts of the March 13 raid in which Louisville police killed the 26-year-old Black woman were contained in hours of recordings made public in a rare release for proceedings that are typically kept secret.
The grand jury did not charge the officers with her killing.
A court ruled that the content of the proceedings should be made public after the grand jury's decision angered many in Louisville and around the country and set off renewed protests.
The material released does not include juror deliberations or prosecutor recommendations and statements, none of which were recorded, according to the state attorney general's office.
Louisville police Lt. Shawn Hoover said officers with a narcotics warrant approached Taylor's apartment door and announced themselves as police and knocked three times.
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