morning, everyone. My name is Frederick.
More. My immediate right is obviously
Kenneth Walker. His writers, Mr Stephen
Romance. Steve and I have the distinct
honor and privilege representing Mr
Walker behind us. Our mom and dad, Mr
and Mrs
A. Z. I'm sure everyone is aware. Today
we filed a complaint for declaratory
and monetary relief in Jefferson
Circuit Court rather than have a bunch
of different interviews. Way thought it
prudent to just do one here and answer
a bunch of questions. So we're gonna
begin by Kenneth reading this statement.
He's not gonna answer your questions,
But after that, Steve and I will answer
questions. All right, but
good afternoon, everybody.
Good afternoon.
Of course. My name is Kenneth Walker.
My life changed forever. In the early
morning of March 13 I was laying in bed
with Briana around midnight, watching
movies All of a sudden, someone started
beating on the door that refused to
answer. When we you Who is it? 15
minutes later, Rihanna was dead from a
hell. That probably gunfire. And I was
in police custody. The police arrested
jail. They charged me with murder of a
police.
I was raised by good I am a legal gun
owner and I would never know. We should
police
Rihanna and I did not know who was
banging on the door, but the police
know what they did.
Charges brought against me were meant
to silence me and cover up Brianna's
murder for her and those that I love. I
can no longer remain sound.
Thank you. Things get, um, so we'll
take some questions.
Questions you mentioned
that I read today that
like,
Well, here's what we know. Based on the
911 calls from neighbors and the police
transmissions, there were two separate
volleys of gunfire that night, and they
were about a minute in eight seconds
apart. It was not reported that an
officer was shot until after the second
volley of gunshots. And yet the police
have alleged all along that Kenneth and
in this one shot somehow hit off
somatic way. We absolutely do not
concede that fact. It is obviously
possible. But until we see the
ballistics report and reflects that,
then we think it is much more likely
that one of the 35 to 45 shots fired.
But L NPD is what struck off
dramatically especially based on the
fact that it was not reported that he
was shot until over a minute and a half
after rape begins, so so that that is
part of what we believe right now. But
really, the bottom line on this is this
is on. That night, Kenny Walker was 27
years old. He's from a good family, his
father's retired Army, his mother's
work for J c ps can. He'd never been in
trouble in his life,
and the police want you to believe that
it almost one o'clock one evening, he
says. My first foray into the criminal
justice world. I'm gonna try to shoot a
cop. It's a ridiculous position. What
is more believable is they didn't
announce they were police justice, A
dozen neighbors said, I never heard him
say their police, and then after this
goes bad, they have to say, Oh, we said
we were cops and he had to hear us and
therefore he shocks that. That is the
inherent inconsistency that throughout
this case that it began when Kenny was
charged, and it's still today. It is
not. It is simply not believable, and
they knew it wasn't yet they went ahead
and charged him. Anyway, That's the
bottom line on this also is It is still
six months later, and they're trying to
determine what happened in that
apartment. They arrested Kenny for what
they say happened after about three
hours.
The reason why is because that fit in
there
and using the criminal justice system
to try to justify shooting of Rianna
Taylor is what this complaint is about.
And we're watching it in real time
every day. What we saw yesterday with
the Glover plea is the same thing,
and that is we Kenny can no longer
remain silent about the S. And that is
the purpose of bringing this action
a little bit about that sloppy
surveillance about Mattingly going
there times not realizing that Kenny
was in the apartment or even
correct police report detained,
surveilled the house. And there was no
one else that I mean, there's a 63
gentleman who had been there all day. I
mean, there could absolutely have been
Children there that could have been
anywhere, body there. And when you're
executing and no knock search warrant
and you've got guns and all these type
things, you better know who is that? It
is back to just leave the negligence
and recklessness, sloppy nature of this
entire rate when they report that
there's no one there and there's a guy
sleeping in the
you mentioned a lot in the lawsuit that,
uh, he was defending himself and Briana
released. Received that to be
He fired that shot. Two police officers
also have a right to defend themselves
in that situation. Well, they do.
Everyone has the exact same right of
self defense. Police do not have some
sort of heightened right, because they
were a batch. If you're in reasonable
fear of your life, you are allowed to
use self defense. Okay, that that is
unquestioned. However, where that goes
awry for them is when they recklessly
are executing the warrant, then they
don't have that right. When when
Hankinson is recklessly and blindly
firing shots into the building, he he
does not have that right to self
defense. You can't just blindly shoot
wherever and say, Oh, I was defending
myself. I was afraid so That is where
that no longer applies. Clearly, Kenny
had the right in his own home that
cannot be disputed
about the trauma humiliation of going
through?
Well, um,
like, he said in a statement, I mean,
he went from laying in his bed,
watching Freedom, Freedom Riders toe 15
minutes later, his girlfriend, you know
the love of his life, is gasping for
breath in his lab. He's calling 911
He's been shot at over 20 times. We
know it's pitch black dark. And then,
on top of that, he trusted the police
officers of P I. You who said, Hey,
we're just here to try to figure out
what happened. I told him the entire
story in less than two hours later,
they've charged and put him over there
in the jail, so his entire life has
been changed. Not only is the love of
his life right, and he has to deal with
that, but let's also talk about
potentials, psychological effects of
being shot it that many times in the
dark and the trust or lack thereof now
for the criminal justice system and how
they treated his name is all over the
world that they charged.
So that's just the beginning
like
well, one of the reasons for the delay
was is because the Commonwealth has
said, you know, insisted on dismissing
the case without prejudice. We have
always been concerned that they might
recharge him. And if we brought this,
this could be the impetus of them
recharging. At this point time, we've
decided we don't know if they want to
charge him charging well, we know where
the courthouses at will litigate that
case. But what that really Also the
problem with that is is
if we do that, then what we're saying
is when the police charge somebody
wrongly and then realize it or knowing
all along say, yeah, we're going to
dismiss the case up. Sorry. He's
supposed to just say thank you and walk
away. No, there has to be consequences
to what they did and waited long enough.
It is, You know, if they wish to go
forward with the criminal case, fine.
We'll deal with that, too. But we
couldn't wait any longer.
Various reasons that will all come out
over the course of litigation. Can you
say anything about this
about inside the house?
Well, because that was one of the
things they continually ask any that
night, which goes back to just the
recklessness and sloppy nature of this
right? They think there's something
like one person says there's no one
there And then they keep asking about,
You know, Where's the white guy that
they didn't know anything? They say
there's drugs. There's no drugs. They
say there's money. There's no money
that everything that they said about
this was false. And yet they just no
harm. No fat, no, that there has to be
consequences. All right. Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
