During his media availability Wednesday, Denver Nuggets forward Jerami Grant used questions posed to him to spotlight the fact that none of the police officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor have been arrested for her death.
"One thing for me is Breonna Taylor's killers are still roaming around free, so I want to focus on that with these interviews and things like that," Grant said. "I want to keep the focus there."
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Taylor, a Black EMT, was killed in her Louisville, Kentucky, home on March 13 after plainclothes officers Brett Hankison, Jonathan Mattingly, and Myles Cosgrove forcibly entered her apartment with a no-knock search warrant, according to Vox's Anna North and Fabiola Cineas.
Believing the officers were intruders, Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot at the men. The officers returned fire and fatally shot the 26-year-old Taylor.
Police were investigating the residence in relation to a suspected drug offense involving an associate of Taylor. No drugs were found at the scene.
All three officers were put on administrative leave and Hankison was eventually fired for his role in killing Taylor.
Grant, the 26-year-old son of former NBA big man Harvey Grant and nephew of former Chicago Bulls All-Star Horace Grant, has the support of Nuggets head coach Mike Malone.
"I respect Jerami doing that," Malone said, according to ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk. "It's a big point of emphasis from the league, from the coaches, the NBPA, coming down here. Making sure that we continue the conversation and keeping the spotlight where it needs to be.
"For Jerami to dedicate his press conference to the memory of the life of Breonna Taylor is outstanding, so I applaud him for that."
