Louisville Metro Police sergeant on the killing of Breonna Taylor and the mayor's unwillingness to release information that would have exonerated the police officers

This had nothing to do with race.  Nothing at all.

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A lot of (the) flames that have come up, a lot of this stuff could have been diverted. Now, would people still have a problem with it? Yes. But I think with the truth coming out, then you wouldn’t have as much distrust.

[He pointed specifically to claims that Taylor was asleep, that officers were at the wrong home or that Taylor didn’t know Jamarcus Glover, Taylor's ex-boyfriend who was a main target in the narcotics investigation the led to the attempted search of Taylor's home, which he said would have been possible to clarify without harming the case.]

It fell on deaf ears, and politics, in my opinion, played a big part of it.  There’s a reason that the fire wasn’t put out early, that he (Mayor Fischer) let it simmer until it got to where it was at, and then it got out of control, and I don’t think he knew how to reel it back in.

~ Jonathan Mattingly, Louisville Metro Police sergeant, "'She didn't deserve to die': Louisville officer involved in Breonna Taylor case speaks out," USA Today by way of Louisville Courier Journal, October 21, 2020