LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It has been more than four years since Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by the Louisville Metro Police Department during a botched raid.
Several of Taylor’s supporters have attended the retrial of former Louisville Metro Police detective Brett Hankison, which entered its sixth day Oct. 29, in solidarity with her family. They said they want justice and a guilty verdict to come down.
“Somebody needs to be held accountable for this wrong that’s been done,” said Antonio Brown, community activist. “A life has been taken, and thank God no one else’s life has been taken from someone shooting reckless into … an apartment building.”
Lyndon Pryor, president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League, said he's disappointed that another trial needed to happen.
“I can’t imagine what it is like to certainly not to only have to do this once, but to have to do it again," Pryor said. "That has to be kept at the center of this, is that there are real people here who are hurting, who have lost someone who they will never get to hug and kiss and put their arms around again. All of that (is) because of incompetence and disregard for human life."
Advocates said they believe a guilty verdict would be one step in the right direction toward justice, but more needs to be done.
Spectrum News 1 has reached out to the River City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge for comment on Hankison's retrial.