Charles Barkley Says Events Leading Up To Breonna Taylor’s Death Matter

Protesters continue to take to the streets in Louisville, Kentucky and other major cities following Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s decision not to charge two of the officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor. However, National Basketball Association (NBA) analyst Charles Barkley said Thursday that people need to remember what led up to the fatal incident.

“We do have to take into account that her boyfriend did shoot at the cops and shot a cop,” Barkley said while speaking on the TNT pregame show for the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets game four. “So like I said, even though I’m really sorry she lost her life, I don’t think we can put this in the same situation with George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.”

Breonna Taylor was killed March 13 after three Louisville Metro Police Department officers executed a search warrant.

Police said they knocked on the door and identified themselves, according to the Courier Journal. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said the knocking woke him and Taylor up, and they called out to ask who was at the door but Walker said no one responded, per the same report.

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