Breonna Taylor: Lawsuit after US health worker shot dead by police

[TysonRoux]

Without the public attention ..........

 

[TysonRoux]

City to pay $12 million to Breonna Taylor's mother, reform police
The settlement is believed to be the largest sum paid by Louisville for police misconduct, and includes police reforms.

Louisville to pay $12m to Breonna Taylor’s mother, reform police

The settlement is believed to be the largest sum paid by Louisville for police misconduct and includes police reforms.

www.aljazeera.com

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in a botched raid on her apartment in March, to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit, Mayor Greg Fischer said on Tuesday.

The settlement will be accompanied by reforms of the Louisville Metro Police Department, including a requirement that commanders approve search warrants before they are put to a judge, Fischer said at a news conference, alongside Taylor's family.

"I'm deeply, deeply sorry for Breonna's death," Fischer told reporters. "My administration is not waiting to move ahead with needed reforms to prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again."

 

[noxibox]

It's about time they banned no-knock raids. I do wish various people and groups would stop trying to use her death as an example of racism.

There have been people that shot & killed swat members raiding the wrong house that were not prosecuted.

That it potentially never gets to court doesn't mean the prosecutors didn't do their damnedest to have them prosecuted.

 

[Cray]

That it potentially never gets to court doesn't mean the prosecutors didn't do their damnedest to have them prosecuted.

Perhaps, but the relationship between prosecutors and the police is often cited as a reason police abuses don't get to court..

Prosecutors have to work with Police every day and depend on them to get cases ready for trial, many prosecutors worry that prosecuting police misconduct will jeopardize their relationship with the police departments they work with.

 

[TysonRoux]

Trump ducks out for ’emergency phone call’ as reporter demands answers on Breonna Taylor

Trump ducks out for ’emergency phone call’ as reporter demands answers on Breonna Taylor

On Wednesday, during a White House press briefing, President Donald Trump was asked repeatedly to weigh in on the Breonna Taylor prosecution decision. He abruptly cut the question section short and ducked out to make an “emergency phone call,” leaving other White House officials to answer...

www.rawstory.com

On Wednesday, during a White House press briefing, President Donald Trump was asked repeatedly to weigh in on the Breonna Taylor prosecution decision. He abruptly cut the question section short and ducked out to make an “emergency phone call,” leaving other White House officials to answer questions on COVID-19.


As he left, a reporter continued to shout questions about the Taylor case. After he left, the press secretary demanded that the pool “be respectful and show a little bit of decorum.”




Watch below:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308898854662819840

 

[TysonRoux]

Trump is asked about Breonna Taylor — and spends his entire answer praising himself

Trump is asked about Breonna Taylor — and spends his entire answer praising himself

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter to comment on the Breonna Taylor case, in which one police officer was indicted for wanton endangerment for gunshots into neighbors' apartments but the killing of Taylor herself was found justified.In response, Trump said nothing about...

www.rawstory.com

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter to comment on the Breonna Taylor case, in which one police officer was indicted for wanton endangerment for gunshots into neighbors’ apartments but the killing of Taylor herself was found justified.


In response, Trump said nothing about Taylor or about the case — but bragged about having a terrific record on racial issues.


“Do you believe justice was served in the Breonna Taylor case in Kentucky, and what is your message to the Black community who believe perhaps justice was not served by the decision of the grand jury in Kentucky?” Trump was asked.

“My message is, I love the Black community and done more for the Black community than any other president, and I say, with a possible exception of Abraham Lincoln,” said Trump. “And I mean with Opportunity Zones and criminal justice reform with prison reform, with what we’ve done for historically Black universities, colleges, schools, what we’ve done nobody that is done more. Abraham Lincoln, let’s give him the nod, but beyond that nobody has done more.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308867969263566848

 

[The Voice]

Witness: the cops knocked, announced who they were, and then entered the house.

Thug boyfriend who used her as a human shield (why else would she be full of bullet holes while he hardly had a scratch on him?): they knocked, but didn't announce who they were before they entered the house.

Media: they used a no-knock warrant, barged into the house unannounced and executed her because she was black.

 

[Speedster]

Witness: the cops knocked, announced who they were, and then entered the house.

Thug boyfriend who used her as a human shield (why else would she be full of bullet holes while he hardly had a scratch on him?): they knocked, but didn't announce who they were before they entered the house.

Media: they used a no-knock warrant, barged into the house unannounced and executed her because she was black.

Also, boyfriend fired first, cops returned fire. What do they want cops to do when fired upon?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Witness: the cops knocked, announced who they were, and then entered the house.

Thug boyfriend who used her as a human shield (why else would she be full of bullet holes while he hardly had a scratch on him?): they knocked, but didn't announce who they were before they entered the house.

Media: they used a no-knock warrant, barged into the house unannounced and executed her because she was black.

1 witness that said, in two prior police interviews that he didn't hear them announce themselves, and in a third interview somehow changes his mind to "maybe" he heard something. No coercion there, I'm sure.

11 other witnesses saying they didn't hear anything. In an apartment building...

Here's the warrant:

Boyfriend, a legal gun owner that himself phoned 911.

You know you can listen to the 911 call or read the transcript, right?

911 Operator Harris: Where is your emergency?

Walker: I don’t know what’s happening. Somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend.

911: OK, where are you located?

Walker: I’m at **** Springfield Drive.

911: OK, how old is your girlfriend?

Walker: She’s 26. Bree.

911: You said 26? Where was she shot at?

Walker: I don’t know. She’s on the ground right now. I don’t know. I don’t know.

911: OK. You said she’s 26? Is she alert and able to talk to you?

Walker: No, she’s not. Bree. God.

911: OK, and you said you’re in apartment number 4?

Walker: Help. Oh my God. Yes (unintelligible) Help.

911: What’s your name sir?

Walker: My name is Kenneth Walker. Help.

911: And you said she’s 26?

Walker: Yes.

911: And you said it’s **** Springfield Drive, apartment number 4?

Walker: Yes.

911: OK, can you check and see where she’s been shot at?

Walker: I think the stomach.

A Republican AG that doesn't actually investigate the illegal warrant used, or the incident report where the police brazenly lied about what happened. Surprise, surprise...

Extremely clear who's regarded as a 'patriotic gun owner who defends his home' and who's a 'thug'.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Also, boyfriend fired first, cops returned fire. What do they want cops to do when fired upon?

Would you apply this leeway to home invaders getting shot, too? Don't people who defend themselves usually get praised?

A better question might be why the police are violently breaking into people's houses in the middle of the night for alleged low-level drug offences, based on bogus information. Not to mention the people they were looking for didn't live there in the first place, and were already in custody.

 

[ForceFate]

Witness: the cops knocked, announced who they were, and then entered the house.

Thug boyfriend who used her as a human shield (why else would she be full of bullet holes while he hardly had a scratch on him?): they knocked, but didn't announce who they were before they entered the house.

Media: they used a no-knock warrant, barged into the house unannounced and executed her because she was black.

Interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder announced Wednesday morning that he placed Detective Joshua Jaynes on administrative reassignment until questions from Taylor's family, her attorneys, a U.S. postal inspector and others about "how and why the search warrant was approved" are answered..

Louisville detective who obtained no-knock warrant for Breonna Taylor's apartment reassigned

Detective Joshua Jaynes wrote five affidavits seeking a judge's permission for no-knock searches as a part of a narcotics investigation in March.

www.usatoday.com

 

[The Voice]

1 witness that said, in two prior police interviews that he didn't hear them announce themselves, and in a third interview somehow changes his mind to "maybe" he heard something. No coercion there, I'm sure.

11 other witnesses saying they didn't hear anything. In an apartment building...

Here's the warrant:

Boyfriend, a legal gun owner that himself phoned 911.

You know you can listen to the 911 call or read the transcript, right?



A Republican AG that doesn't actually investigate the illegal warrant used, or the incident report where the police brazenly lied about what happened. Surprise, surprise...

Extremely clear who's regarded as a 'patriotic gun owner who defends his home' and who's a 'thug'.

So we're meant to believe that this racist police death squad breaks into the home, shoots the woman multiple times (and not the guy who shot at them, somehow), then flees the scene without calling for emergency services to attend to the wounded on site - which is protocol (including their own team member who the thug shot in the leg, requiring him to have emergency surgery to repair the severed artery in his leg)? Or did they stay on site and tell him to phone 911?

Additionally, while they were in possession of an no-knock warrant they didn't need to use it because they were there on a separate warrant (it's available to view online - her and her boyfriend's names are listed on it).

I'm not sure what has more holes in it: the poor woman's body or this entire story.

 

[Cray]

So we're meant to believe that this racist police death squad breaks into the home, shoots the woman multiple times (and not the guy who shot at them, somehow), then flees the scene without calling for emergency services to attend to the wounded on site - which is protocol (including their own team member who the thug shot in the leg, requiring him to have emergency surgery to repair the severed artery in his leg)? Or did they stay on site and tell him to phone 911?

Am curious as to why you regard Walker as a thug, he has no criminal record, is a registered firearm owner and was at home at the time...

You ridicule the idea that these cops could have been overzealous in executing their warrant but do you think it's likely that a law abiding citizen would simply start shooting at people he knew to be police executing a valid warrant?

The most likely scenario in my mind is that the cops where overzealous and perhaps either didn't announce themselves or Walker didn't hear the announcement.... If you accept his story that he didn't know that they where cops can you fault his actions on that night?

 

[Kieppie]

Would you apply this leeway to home invaders getting shot, too? Don't people who defend themselves usually get praised?

A better question might be why the police are violently breaking into people's houses in the middle of the night for alleged low-level drug offences, based on bogus information. Not to mention the people they were looking for didn't live there in the first place, and were already in custody.

He was in his right to shoot at perceived intruders due to "Stand your ground".

Now the rest of your claims are false.
They were at the correct house.
They were the suspects on the warrant.
There was an investigation regarding Breonna as a POI.
They believed it was a soft target so they went with the normal, not no-knock, warrant.
They had the option of breaking down the door if no answer.

Now is the boyfriend lying or could it be that both statements are correct. That the police did knock and announce themselves AND that the boyfriend did not hear that they said "Police"?

 

[Cray]

Now is the boyfriend lying or could it be that both statements are correct. That the police did knock and announce themselves AND that the boyfriend did not hear that they said "Police"?

Judging from what I've read, this strikes me as the most plausible explanation, the police had thought they announced themselves, Walker didn't hear them.

It makes no sense for Walker to shoot at people he knew where cops given his background...

In the absence of contrary evidence I imagine the cops thought that they had announced themselves and the people inside where just not answering the door.

If nothing else this incident shows that no knock warrants are a huge issue, and certainly not compatible with something like Castle doctrine.

 

[Kieppie]

Judging from what I've read, this strikes me as the most plausible explanation, the police had thought they announced themselves, Walker didn't hear them.

It makes no sense for Walker to shoot at people he knew where cops given his background...

In the absence of contrary evidence I imagine the cops thought that they had announced themselves and the people inside where just not answering the door.

If nothing else this incident shows that no knock warrants are a huge issue, and certainly not compatible with something like Castle doctrine.

Yes and no on the no-knock. Ironically in this case specifically a no-knock would not have resulted in Breonna's death. It's the time in between knocking and breaking the door down that enabled Walker to grab his gun.

But yes I agree that both is most likely true and this highlights that this is an accident which is why the DA's decision is correct.

 

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[Jabulani22]

Tim is a perfect example of the left pushing a fence sitter to the republican camp , Joe Rogan is gonna follow too but maybe longer due to being whacked on the head more than Tim.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Tim is a perfect example of the left pushing a fence sitter to the republican camp , Joe Rogan is gonna follow too but maybe longer due to being whacked on the head more than Tim.

Absolute lol at the idea of Tim being a "fence sitter". He's been a pro-Trump hack for a very long time.

 

[Jabulani22]

Absolute lol at the idea of Tim being a "fence sitter". He's been a pro-Trump hack for a very long time.

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