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Breonna Taylor’s family is not only holding the Louisville police responsible for her death but they are now alleging that medical aid wasn’t offered to the young woman after she was fatally shot eight times.
The bombshell claim was made Sunday in a new 31-page legal filing by the family of Taylor, The New York Times reported. It is their belief that the EMT technician suffered in agony for up to six minutes during what they believe was a “botched” raid in March.
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“In the six minutes that elapsed from the time Breonna was shot, to the time she died, we have no evidence suggesting that any officer made entry in an attempt to check and assist her,” Sam Aguiar, the family’s lawyer, said in an interview. “She suffered.”
Taylor died on March 13 during a botched drug raid that she
was not the target of. Taylor, who worked at two local hospitals, was shot as
police were serving a ‘no-knock warrant’ related to a narcotics investigation.
Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, called 911 to report someone was breaking into their apartment. As police fired on the couple, Walker returned fire and Taylor was shot eight times. She died at the scene.
Walker was arrested at the scene for attempted murder but
the charges against him were later dropped. No narcotics were found in the home
and her family filed a lawsuit against the three police officers involved in
the shooting.
Officials with the city have pushed back against the suggestion that she was left to die, insisting it is a “gross mischaracterization.”
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The coroner who performed Taylor’s autopsy stated that
Taylor experienced life ending injuries and any intervention on the 26-year-old
would have been in vain. She believed that Taylor died “less than a minute,”
after being shot.
“Even if it had happened outside of an ER we couldn’t have saved her,” Dr. Barbara Weakley-Jones said.
The filing also declared that Taylor’s death was due to gentrification and not a drug raid gone wrong. It was alleged that Mayor Greg Fischer wanted the land Taylor lived on for redevelopment and officers were tasked with clearing out the area.
“People needed to be removed and homes needed to be vacated so that a high-dollar, legacy-creating real estate development could move forward,” Taylor’s family said.
The mayor denied the “outrageous” allegations through his spokeswoman Jean Porter.
“They are insulting to the neighborhood members of the
Vision Russell initiative and all the people involved in the years of work
being done to revitalize the neighborhoods of west Louisville.”
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