Harris seeks probe into death of EMT in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is demanding federal investigators examine the controversial shooting of EMT Breonna Taylor.
“I’m calling for the Department of Justice to investigate #BreonnaTaylor’s death,” Harris, a California Democrat, said in a tweet Wednesday. “Her family deserves answers.”
The former presidential candidate described Taylor, 26, as a young woman with a dream of becoming a nurse and how she was fatally shot by police while in her apartment.
Harris incorrectly stated on NBC News that police were “at the wrong place trying to serve a warrant.”
Louisville narcotics officers did have a warrant for Taylor’s address and to search her apartment on March 13. But the warrant shows she was not the main target of the drug investigation and that no illegal narcotics were found inside the apartment.
The Louisville Metro Police investigation, records show, was centered around a “trap house” on Elliott Avenue more than 10 miles from Taylor’s apartment and two suspects police believed were selling drugs at the Russell neighborhood address.
Taylor’s shooting death has raised questions about why officers entered her home early March 13 and opened fire on her in her apartment.
Police say Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired first, wounding an officer. Walker says he believed someone was breaking into the home.
Taylor was shot eight times by officers before being pronounced dead at the scene.
No body-camera footage is available because officers in the department’s Criminal Interdiction Division who conducted the search warrant do not wear cameras, police Chief Steve Conrad previously said.