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12 Seconds in the Dark: A Police Officer’s Firsthand Account of the Breonna Taylor Raid is a nonfiction account by former Louisville Metro Police Sergeant John Mattingly. Positioned between memoir, institutional defense, and public controversy, the book presents Mattingly’s version of the March 2020 raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death and the national backlash that followed. Rather than offering a detached journalistic history, it is written from the perspective of an officer who was directly involved, was wounded during the operation, and later became a figure in the wider public debate about police conduct, media framing, and protest politics. The book is significant not only because of the event it addresses, but also because it attempts to justify, contextualize, and reinterpret one of the most discussed police operations in recent U.S. memory. As a result, it functions as a firsthand narrative about a highly contested incident and as an argument over how that incident should be understood.