-The truth is now before us.
The facts have been examined,
and a grand jury comprised of our peers
and fellow citizens has made a decision.
-So now the door's like flying open.
I let off one shot, then all of sudden
there's a whole lot of shots,
and we both just dropped to the ground.
-Grand jury proceedings are usually private,
but in this case, a judge has ordered them to be released.
There's been a lot of public pressure for the audio
to be public because of a lot of the questions about the case
and what the grand jury heard or didn't hear.
So a big question in this case,
particularly in the past few days,
but in the months since Breonna Taylor was killed
has been did officers announce their presence
before they entered her apartment with a battering ram?
They had what's called a no-knock warrant,
which means they legally didn't have to announce themselves.
-Evidence shows that officers both knocked
and announced their presence at the apartment.
The officers' statements about their announcement
are corroborated by an independent witness
who was near in a proximity to apartment four.
In other words, the warrant was not served
as a no-knock warrant.
-We all got in line, I knocked on the door.
Banged on it.
We didn't announce first couple
because our intent was not to hit the door.
Our intent was to give her
plenty of time to come to the door,
because she was probably there alone.
So we determined, predetermined to give her plenty of time
to come to the door, banging on the door.
No response.
Banged on it again. No response.
At that point, we start announcing ourselves.
"Police, please come to the door."
"Police, we have a search warrant."
While we're doing this, there's a neighbor
or somebody on the stairs, right on the staircase.
Started arguing with Detective Hankison and Lieutenant Hoover.
And they were both giving commands
to get back into his apartment.
And he kept saying,
I wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying,
something about leaving the girl or something like that.
While he was doing that, we were still announcing,
"Police, come to the door."
"Police search warrant."
We banged, probably banging on the door six,
six or seven different time periods,
not six or seven times, six or seven different times.
It seemed like an eternity in the doorway.
-I start putting on clothes, another knock at the door.
She's like, "Who is it?" Loud.
And at the top of her lungs, no response.
I'm like, what the heck?
So then I grab my gun, which is legal, like,
I'm licensed to carry,
I've never even fired my gun outside of the range.
I'm scared to death.
So she says that there's another knock at the door.
She's yelling at the top of her lungs,
and I am too at this point.
"Who is it?"
No answer.
No response.
No anything.
-Daniel Cameron said last week
that they did still announce themselves,
and he's basing that on what the officers themselves told him
and on one witness, who said that he heard this happen.
But it's a little bit tricky
because that witness has changed his story.
He initially said that he did
not hear them announce themselves.
Later, changed it to say that he did hear it
and has even said directly to us, to "The Post,"
that he only heard them mention
that they were police in passing to him
as he was walking out his door.
-The first interview with Mr.
Sarpee, what date was that?
-It was a phone interview that's conducted
on March the 21st, 2020.
Mr. Sarpee
stated he walked outside,
and he was told to go back inside.
When he looked out of the window,
he could see a lot of police cars
and he saw them in uniform, so he knew it was police.
Mr. Sarpee stated no one
identified themselves as police,
but he knew they were the police because of their uniforms.
He stated he did not hear anyone knocking on the apartment door.
And they did a second phone interview,
which was on Friday, May 15th.
Mr. Sarpee was walking out
the door to leave,
and he noticed four to five gentlemen
below the apartment stairs.
The gentlemen ordered him to go back into his apartment.
When he went back into his apartment,
he heard gunshots, pop, pop, pop.
He heard the officers knocking on the door
and they were saying, "This is the cops."
-First interview he didn't hear any knocking,
and the second one, he did hear knocking
and announcing the police.
-Yes, ma'am.
-When Attorney General Daniel Cameron
initially announced the results
of the grand jury's investigation,
he made it sound like he walked the grand jurors
through all of Kentucky's homicide charges
and that the grand jury agreed with him
and with his office that the only charges that are warranted
were wanton endangerment charges against a former officer.
-Criminal homicide encompasses the taking of a life by another.
While there are six possible homicide charges
under Kentucky law,
these charges are not applicable to the facts before us
because our investigation show
and the grand jury agreed that Mattingly and Cosgrove
were justified in their return of deadly fire
after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.
-He has later sort of reframed the way
that he describes what happened,
and he said in a statement this week
that he only recommended
the wanton endangerment charges to the grand jurors,
and then again talking to a local TV station, WDRB,
he said more explicitly that he did not recommend
homicide charges against any of the officers.
-Cameron says presenting the grand jury
with a murder charge would not have been appropriate.
-They're an independent body.
If they wanted to make an assessment
about different charges, they could have done that.
But our recommendation was that Mattingly and Cosgrove
were justified in their acts and their conduct.
-There is inevitably going to be some criticism of any decision
where no one is directly charged in the death.
-Say her name! -Breonna Taylor!
-This whole protest movement that we've seen
for the past several months has been getting accountability
and justice in these police killings,
and I think many of the protesters
don't see this as holding anybody accountable.
Not only were there not homicide charges,
but none of the charges that were filed
were related to her killing.