Breonna Taylor was alive after police shot her. But no one tried to treat her.
Source: USA Today
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Just after midnight March 13, three Louisville police officers fired more than 20 bullets into Breonna Taylor's apartment, striking her five times.
But she didn't die not right away.
For at least five minutes, she struggled, coughing for breath, according to her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who told investigators she was alive as he called her mom and yelled for help.
" (Police are) yelling like, 'Come out, come out,' and I'm on the phone with her (mom). I'm still yelling help because she's over here coughing and, like, I'm just freaking out," Walker said in a recorded police interview 3 hours after the shooting.
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luvallpeeps
(935 posts)This adds insult to injury. This is gut-wrenching and I'm really hurt. God help us.
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,365 posts)their number one priority is to go home to their families safe every night.
It has become not only their number one priority, it's their only priority.
Bayard
(22,228 posts)Makes me sick again. Its just all so stupid and unnecessary.
I am wondering about this quote from one cop into dispatch: "F (female) inside with gun kicked under the bed." The only gun I've ever heard about was what the boyfriend had.