A lawsuit was filed alleging that Louisville Regional Police are withholding crucial evidence of bodycam footage that may have captured the chain of events leading up to the death of Breonna Taylor.
Sam Aguiar filed the lawsuit on Wednesday. He is a regional Louisville attorney who practices law under his firm Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers. He claims that two officers entering Taylor’s home had bodycams that automatically activates during the fatal no-knock warrant.
“Simply put, it would have been difficult for most of the LMPD members with body cameras and who were associated with CID [Crime/Investigative Division] events at Breonna’s and/or Elliot Ave. on March 12/13, 2020 to not have had their Axon body cameras activated at one point or another,” the lawsuit states according to CBS News.
“Even those who may have left cameras in vehicles or other locations should have been activated to an event mode from a buffering mode, so long as the camera was within range of a Signal unit,” the lawsuit continues. “Similarly, LMPD members with body cameras who responded to the hospital, the CID building, or other locations while near a Signal unit should have had the device activated.”
The lawsuit wants the judge to order the LMPD to “produce the requested bodycam information under Kentucky’s open records law.”
The department declined to comment at this time. “Although we appreciate the opportunity, LMPD does not comment on pending litigation,” Officer Beth Ruoff reportedly told CBS News.
