Russell Wilson on decision in Breonna Taylor case: 'It's devastating'
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said Thursday it was “devastating” to hear a Kentucky grand jury’s decision Wednesday to bring no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman.
“It’s devastating that a young woman, a young Black woman, hanging out in her own house just kind of resting there and stuff like that to be, in my opinion, murdered just for no real reason at all is terrible,” Wilson told reporters over a Zoom call. “And for nobody to really be charged by it … there’s no excuse for that.”
The decision in the Taylor case has re-ignited anger and protests across the country over police brutality and systemic racism against Black people.
The grand jury indicted fired Louisville police officer Brett Hankison on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for bullets fired outside of Taylor’s apartment that went into a neighboring unit. But neither he nor the two other Louisville officers who fired into Taylor’s apartment — Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove — were charged with killing the 26-year-old emergency technician, who was shot six times in a drugs and cash search gone wrong. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said no further criminal charges are expected to be filed in connection to the case.
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