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

[OrbitalDawn]

Grand jury not presented with murder charges against 2 officers in Breonna Taylor's death, AG Cameron says

Grand jury not presented with murder charges against 2 officers in Breonna Taylor's death, AG Cameron says

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said his office did not give the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case the option to consider murder charges in her death.

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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said his office did not give the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case the option to consider murder or even lesser charges charges in her death.

In an exclusive interview with WDRB News on Tuesday, Cameron said it was "not appropriate" to recommend charges for two Louisville Metro Police officers — Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Det. Myles Cosgrove —who fired shots into her apartment early on March 13, six of which hit Taylor.

There you go, an admission that he blatantly lied about it earlier. What a hack.

 

[Cray]

There you go, an admission that he blatantly lied about it earlier. What a hack.

The crazy part of this whole thing is that an innocent bystander can get shot 5 times and yet the state is saying, nothing to see here, move along. No fault, no criminality, bugger all. I have all the sympathy in the world for cops coming under fire, and if, in the heat of an exchange of fire an innocent is killed by a stray round I would say that is a tragic accident. Shooting someone five times is not an accident in any shape or form...

 

[Spliffcat]

Circle Jerk. While South Africa burns and goes for a ball of sh I t.

 

[The Voice]

The crazy part of this whole thing is that an innocent bystander can get shot 5 times and yet the state is saying, nothing to see here, move along. No fault, no criminality, bugger all. I have all the sympathy in the world for cops coming under fire, and if, in the heat of an exchange of fire an innocent is killed by a stray round I would say that is a tragic accident. Shooting someone five times is not an accident in any shape or form...

Collateral is always going to be a thing unfortunately. Still can't figure out why if the cops were returning fire at her boyfriend, they hit her instead, and he didn't have a scratch on him. I guess because he knew what was coming and hid behind her?

 

[Speedster]

This thread has become the definition of an echo chamber.

 

[Cray]

Collateral is always going to be a thing unfortunately. Still can't figure out why if the cops were returning fire at her boyfriend, they hit her instead, and he didn't have a scratch on him. I guess because he knew what was coming and hid behind her?

Bit of a harsh judgement without any evidence, you seem to be trying to paint someone who has no criminal record as the villain in all of this, despite the fact that he may have been well within his rights to defend himself against intruders - Keeping in mind he knew that some of Breonnás acquaintances were dodgy and he felt that it may have been them breaking...

And even if you think he might have used her as a shield, what cop in their right mind shoots an innocent because a shooter might be behind them...

 

[Cray]

This thread has become the definition of an echo chamber.

Perhaps because conservatives have run out of ways to defend the indefensible...

 

[The Voice]

Bit of a harsh judgement without any evidence, you seem to be trying to paint someone who has no criminal record as the villain in all of this, despite the fact that he may have been well within his rights to defend himself against intruders - Keeping in mind he knew that some of Breonnás acquaintances were dodgy and he felt that it may have been them breaking...

And even if you think he might have used her as a shield, what cop in their right mind shoots an innocent because a shooter might be behind them...

Fact of the matter is that had he not shot a policeman they would not have returned fire and she would still be alive today. It's a very unfortunate set of circumstances that took an innocent person's life. And because of the charges that were brought against the cops we also know that they were pretty much firing blindly into the apartment (ballistics also confirmed this). So it may be that he shot at them from behind her and they weren't prepared to wait for him to do it again. It's down to her being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Murder charges have to be based on the intent to kill. None of the cops went there that night to kill her, so the best they can hope for is involuntary manslaughter.

 

[Cray]

Fact of the matter is that had he not shot a policeman they would not have returned fire and she would still be alive today. It's a very unfortunate set of circumstances that took an innocent person's life. And because of the charges that were brought against the cops we also know that they were pretty much firing blindly into the apartment (ballistics also confirmed this).

Murder charges have to be based on the intent to kill. None of the cops went there that night to kill her, so the best they can hope for is involuntary manslaughter.

I never expected a murder charge, but a manslaughter charge would have been appropriate in my opinion.

 

[The Voice]

I never expected a murder charge, but a manslaughter charge would have been appropriate in my opinion.

At least, yes.

 

[TysonRoux]

Breonna Taylor decision renews criticism of grand juries

There’s a shortage of poll workers this year. Here’s how you can help. — Apple News Today

Also on today’s show: One member of the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case filed a motion to release the records of the panel’s deliberations, saying Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron did not accurately represent the proceedings. The Taylor decision and these recent developments have...

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Earlier this week, one member of the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case filed a motion to release the records of the panel’s deliberations, saying Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron did not accurately represent the proceedings. The Taylor decision and these recent developments have renewed criticism of the process and function of grand juries.

Also on today’s show: The restrictions on the voting rights of people with felony convictions in Florida, how to become a poll worker, and the vote to find the fattest bear in Brooks River as winter approaches.

 

[ForceFate]

Collateral is always going to be a thing unfortunately. Still can't figure out why if the cops were returning fire at her boyfriend, they hit her instead, and he didn't have a scratch on him. I guess because he knew what was coming and hid behind her?

The bf isn't the person they were looking for. He had no connection to the case they were investigating. He couldn't have known what was going to happen in my opinion.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

The bf isn't the person they were looking for. He had no connection to the case they were investigating. He couldn't have known what was going to happen in my opinion.

Added to that, the whole thing was based on a lie anyway. They lied to a judge to get the warrant. Any consequences for that?

Internal investigation: Louisville police told no 'suspicious' packages sent to Breonna Taylor's home

At least four LMPD officers were told there was no 'package history' at Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment, according to investigators.

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Louisville police were repeatedly told there were no packages, "suspicious or otherwise," delivered to Breonna Taylor's home in connection to a drug investigation, according to testimony in an internal LMPD report.

That runs counter to information a police detective provided to a judge who approved the warrant for Taylor's apartment, where officers shot and killed her during an early-morning raid March 13.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I mean, look at the remarkable leeway and benefit of the doubt people in this thread use to infer there must be good reasons why the police did what they did, despite the massive evidence to the contrary, and despite repeat evidence of how they lie about this stuff.

From a different state.

Black guy is viciously beaten and killed by a cop, and they immediately blatantly lie about it, saying it was injuries from a car crash.

AP: Trooper's mic records talk of beating, choking Black man

In graphic, matter-of-fact chatter picked up on his body-camera mic, a Louisiana State trooper implicated in the death of a Black man can be heard talking of beating and choking him before “all of a sudden he just went limp...

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In graphic, matter-of-fact chatter picked up on his body-camera mic, a Louisiana State trooper implicated in the death of a Black man can be heard talking of beating and choking him before “all of a sudden he just went limp.”

“I beat the ever-living f--- out of him,” the trooper said in a 27-second audio clip obtained by The Associated Press.

It is the most direct evidence to emerge yet in the death last year of Ronald Greene, which troopers initially blamed on injuries from a car crash at the end of a chase.

Or more NY, during the recent protests.

US: New York Police Planned Assault on Bronx Protesters

New York City police planned the assault and mass arrests of peaceful protesters in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx on June 4, 2020.

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About 10 minutes before an 8 p.m. curfew – imposed after looting elsewhere in the city – scores of police officers surrounded and trapped the protesters – a tactic known as “kettling” – as they marched peacefully through Mott Haven. Just after 8 p.m., the police, unprovoked and without warning, moved in on the protesters, wielding batons, beating people from car tops, shoving them to the ground, and firing pepper spray into their faces before rounding up more than 250 people for arrest.

 

[ForceFate]

About 10 minutes before an 8 p.m. curfew – imposed after looting elsewhere in the city – scores of police officers surrounded and trapped the protesters – a tactic known as “kettling” – as they marched peacefully through Mott Haven. Just after 8 p.m., the police, unprovoked and without warning, moved in on the protesters, wielding batons, beating people from car tops, shoving them to the ground, and firing pepper spray into their faces before rounding up more than 250 people for arrest.

I've seen several clips showing this.

 

[The Voice]

I've seen several clips showing this.

Peacefully marching over the tops of cars?

 

[ForceFate]

Peacefully marching over the tops of cars?

Nope. Peaceful marching in the middle ofba street, then suddenly police.

 

[rietrot]

Nope. Peaceful marching in the middle ofba street, then suddenly police.

Don't walk in the middle of the street then.

 

[TysonRoux]

Did you mean to say " Don't walk in the middle of the street if you're black"?

 

[TysonRoux]

Breonna Taylor grand jury recordings officially released. Here's what we know

Breonna Taylor grand jury recordings reveal chilling scene of chaos and misinformation

A judge ordered Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to release the grand jury recordings in the Breonna Taylor case by noon Friday.

www.courier-journal.com

Editor's note: The Courier Journal has a team of reporters listening to the audio files released in the Breonna Taylor grand jury proceedings. We will update this story as we review them. You can also go to our live updates story.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Roughly 20 hours of eagerly anticipated grand jury recordings from the Kentucky attorney general's presentation in the Breonna Taylor case have been publicly filed in court, after a judge ordered the release.

The recordings, released at 11:40 a.m. Friday, cover the grand jury's sessions Sept. 21-23 and are parsed into 14 audio files, with witnesses' personal information redacted because of concerns of threats that have been made to officials and officers.

Those redactions comprise 3 minutes and 50 seconds of the proceedings, according to the attorney general's office.

No written transcripts have been released.

They reveal exactly which witnesses the grand jury heard and what they said that led to the decision to charge a former Louisville detective with felony wanton endangerment in the March 13 shooting.

Nobody was charged for causing Taylor's death.