Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Paul Humphrey is walking back recent comments he made about Latasha “Tasha” White, a Black woman allegedly murdered by her boyfriend in May, after facing swift criticism.
White’s family and their supporters say police reacted too slowly to her disappearance. She was found shot to death near Buechel, in southeast Louisville, less than a week after her family filed a missing persons report. The police department has argued the family did not give them any information to suggest White was in imminent danger.
Humphrey was asked again about the family’s criticisms at LMPD’s bi-weekly press conference Wednesday. That’s when he made the comment White’s family and some city officials are saying was “inappropriate.”…