An officer involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor has spoken out and admitted the case will be attached to him for the rest of his life.
Months after the botched police raid in which EMT Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville cops, one of the officers involved in the case opened up and said the raid would be done differently if they could do it all over again.
“I feel for her. I hurt for her mother and for her sisters,” Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly told ABC News and the Courier Journal as he expressed his support for Taylor’s family.
“It’s not just a passing ‘Oh, this is part of the job, we did it and move on.’ It’s not like that,” the Louisville Metro Police Department veteran added.
“I mean Breonna Taylor is now attached to me for the rest of my life. And that’s not again, ‘Woe is me.’ That’s me feeling for them.”
As Mattingly admitted, he would carry out the raid on the apartment differently if he had a chance to do it all over again.
“We expected that Breonna was going to be there by herself. That’s why we gave her so much time. And in my opinion that was a mistake,” the officer said in an interview with ABC News and the Courier Journal.
“Number one, we would have either served the no-knock warrant or we would have done the normal thing we do, which is five to 10 seconds.
“To not give people time to formulate a plan, not give people time to get their senses so they have an idea of what they’re doing.”
According to Mattingly, “Breonna Taylor would be alive, 100 percent” if the raid was carried out this way.
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