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1. A big day in Kentucky: I'm in Frankfort, the state capitol, where any minute now the attorney general will announce whether the three officers who opened fire killing Breonna Taylor will be charged. My investigation into what we know so far is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor-police-killing.html
2. High security in building where reporters were told to come. We got barely 1h40 minutes heads up that press conference would be in Frankfort, a 50 min drive from Louisville, where reporters were stationed. Streets blocked off. My bag was searched by hand and by a police dog.
3. Charges have been announced: No charges filed against two of the officers, Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, and several counts of wanton endangerment for the third officer, Brett Hankison: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/breonna-taylor-charges-louisville.html
4. Legal experts we interviewed before the decision said it was unlikely that Mattingly & Cosgrove would be indicted. They were in the hallway of Breonna Taylor's apartment after the door was punched in & returned fire when her boyfriend shot at them, thinking it was an intruder
5. The third officer - Brett Hankison, the only one of the three to be fired - was in the formation by the door but he ran out of her apartment and into the parking lot & began firing into her sliding glass door & window with no line of sight, according to his termination letter
6. Legal experts - and I interviewed a bunch - warned that the two officers in the doorway had a self-defense claim because they did not fire first. Hankison is the one who, they argued, did not have such a claim since he was out of line of fire when he shot
7. This is far from what the family of Breonna Taylor wanted. Her mother had said that nothing short of arresting and criminally charging all three officers with murder would be enough. Her lawyer called for at least manslaughter charges for all three.
8. More details in the story below and we will be updating readers throughout the day. My colleagues are fanned out across the square in Louisville where protesters have gathered. I'm waiting for the press conference to begin in Frankfort: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXxvNzGPPFxdCrFzCwshWrWJB
9. Some key quotes from the attorney general: "I know that not everyone will be satisfied," he said. "If we simply act on outrage there is no justice – mob justice is not justice. .. Do we really want the truth? Or truth that fits our narrative?"
10. He also suggested the law may not be adequate to deal with a case like this: "This is a tragedy and sometimes the law is not adequate to respond to a tragedy," he said, adding: "Det. Cosgrove and Sgt Mattingly were justified in returning fire, because they were fired upon."
11. New information from the press conference: Cosgrove shot 16 times - more than any other officer. Hankison shot 10 rounds, and Mattingly six, so total of 32. Cameron also debunked theory that Mattingly may have shot himself or been shot by friendly fire.
12. He said the bullet that went into the officer's leg was from a 9 mm gun, which is what Kenneth Walker, Breonna's boyfriend was using. The rest of the officers were using 40 caliber guns.
13. He also said that the officers had knocked and announced themselves as police. This is key: Breonna's boyfriend says he opened fire because he heard the knocking at nearly 1 am, but no one saying police so he thought it was an intruder. We interviewed almost a dozen neighbors
14. And of the nearly dozen neighbors we spoke to, only *one* said he heard them scream police - a truck driver who was on the staircase above her apartment, returning from a late shift. I asked Cameron if that is sufficient? To warn people in middle of the night that its police?
15. His answer was that the grand jury had determined that the amount of notice given was sufficient. He did not directly address my query: Did the investigation find more than the truck driver who heard the announcing?
16. These and other details are in the deep-dive we did on the killing of Breonna Taylor here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor-police-killing.html
