A former Louisville police officer has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree in connection with the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.The long-awaited charges against the former officer, Brett Hankison, were immediately criticized by demonstrators who had demanded more serious counts and the arrests of the three officers involved in the March shooting. The other two officers — Sgt. John Mattingly and Det. Myles Cosgrove — were not charged following months of demonstrations. Live updates on the announcementThe findings of the grand jury probe into the fatal police shooting announced by Kentucky’s Attorney General Daniel Cameron Wednesday afternoon. He called the Taylor’s death “a gut-wrenching emotional case” where “the pain is understandable.” Demonstrators at makeshift memorial to Taylor in downtown Louisville called for Cameron to step down after the charges were announced in court and the former’s detective’s bond was set at $15,000. The charges come more than six months after Taylor, a 26-year-old Black EMT and aspiring nurse, was shot to death by Louisville police officers in her home. The officers broke down the door to her apartment while executing a late-night, “no-knock” warrant in a narcotics investigation on March 13.
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