Breonna Taylor - The African Mirror

Oct

2020

Breonna Taylor ‘attached to me’ for rest of life, police officer says

IN his first public comments since Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville police seven months ago, one of the officers involved said he would have conducted the raid differently and said the incident would be with him for the rest of his life. In an interview with ABC News and the Courier Journal newspaper, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly expressed sympathy for the relatives of Taylor, whose death has been one focus of nationwide protests against police brutality and racism this year. "I feel for her. I hurt for her mother and for her sisters," Mattingly, a two-decade veteran of the Louisville…

Sep

2020

By The African Mirror

Kentucky grand jury indicts one of three officers in Breonna Taylor killing

WORLD

BRYAN WOOLSTON and JONATHAN ALLEN A Kentucky grand jury considering the March killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, in her home has voted to indict one of three white police officers for wanton endangerment, the state's attorney general said. The officer indicted was Detective Brett Hankison, who faces up to five years in prison if convicted, Attorney General Daniel Cameron said at a news conference. Hankison was with two colleagues when they shot into the apartment of Taylor, 26, killing her in front of her boyfriend. The two other officers, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, were…

Sep

2020

By The African Mirror

Hamilton not probed after taking a knee in ‘Arrest the Cops’ T-shirt

SPORT

ALAN BALDWIN SIX-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton will not be investigated by the sport’s authorities after he took a knee before the start of the Tuscan Grand Prix on Sunday with a message on his T-shirt declaring "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor". The words "say her name" and a photograph of Taylor were on the back of Briton Hamilton's black shirt as he knelt with other drivers before the anthem as part of the sport's now-regular anti-racism stance. The FIA has decided that it won't investigate whether Hamilton’s protest violated its rules. The Mercedes driver, the…