Breonna Taylor’s Family Hires Benjamin Crump, Same Lawyer In Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin Cases
Breonna Taylor’s Family Hires Benjamin Crump, Same Lawyer In Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin Cases
it is not known if the woman [Taylor] was armed nor how many times the officers were fired at and how many times the officers fired back at the suspects.
The Louisville Metro Police Department charged Taylor’s boyfriend, 27-year-old Kenneth Walker, 27, with the attempted murder of a police officer due to injuries Sargeant Jonathan Mattingly suffered at the scene. The Philadelphia Sun reports that Kenneth Walker‘s defense attorney says his client “fired in self-defense because police did not announce themselves and he thought officers were breaking in.”
Benjamin Crump is a prominent attorney with extensive experience in a number of civil rights cases similar to Ahmaud Arbery‘s as well as Breonna Taylor‘s. He will represent the family in their lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department. It has been reported that the suit, originally filed by two Louisville attorneys in April, says that Taylor did not pose a threat to the officers and “did nothing to deserve to die at their hands.”
In a statement, Benjamin Crump says the family demands answers in response to this tragedy:
Despite the tragic circumstances surrounding her death, the Department has not provided any answers regarding the facts and circumstances of how this tragedy occurred, nor have they taken responsibility for her senseless killing.
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