One Of The Cops Involved In Breonna Taylor’s Death Just Got A Book Deal
One of the cops who participated in the no-knock raid that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s death last year just got a book deal.
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three Louisville, Kentucky, police officers who raided Taylor’s apartment in March 2020, is writing a book about the case, titled “The Fight For Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy,” the Courier-Journal reported on Thursday.
Mattingly is the same man who, along with his colleagues, fired more than two dozen bullets into Taylor’s apartment while she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep; the same man who sued Walker, alleging that Walker’s actions caused him “severe trauma, mental anguish and emotional distress” after Walker witnessed his girlfriend bleed to death and then was taken away in handcuffs; the same man who, after Taylor died from at least six bullet wounds, wrote an email saying, “We did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night.”
Who better to tell the inside story of the tragedy than one of its perpetrators?
The book will be published by Tennessee-based Post Hill Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster declined to comment on the record and Post Hill Press did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.