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

[TysonRoux]

Police told former chief that Breonna Taylor had a rifle and fired at officers. She didn't

Police told former chief that Breonna Taylor had a rifle and fired at officers. She didn't

Ex-Chief Steve Conrad described conflicting reports he received about the night his officers tried to search Taylor's apartment for drugs and cash.

www.courier-journal.com

Former Police Chief Steve Conrad was told Breonna Taylor was armed with a rifle and had fired at officers before they shot her dead in her apartment, according to an investigative interview obtained by The Courier Journal.

None of that, he later discovered, was true.

Conrad was interviewed by Louisville Metro Police investigators March 18, five days after Taylor's death. The interview, first reported by WDRB, is part of the larger investigative file that The Courier Journal has filed suit to obtain.

City officials say they plan to make the file public after making necessary redactions.

In his interview, Conrad described the conflicting reports he received about what had happened just before 1 a.m. March 13 when his officers tried to search Taylor's apartment for drugs and cash.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

More shoes dropping in this farcical process. Cameron should resign in disgrace.

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[TysonRoux]

Hundreds gather at Tyler Park in March to Justice

Hundreds gather at Tyler Park in March to Justice

A large group gathered in Tyler Park Saturday morning, with a goal to march together to Jefferson Square Park in pursuit of justice.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A large group gathered in Tyler Park Saturday morning, with a goal to march together to Jefferson Square Park in pursuit of justice.

Hundreds of people showed up to peacefully march, standing together in support of Black lives and seeking racial justice and equality.

The event was co-sponsored by the Louisville Stand Up for Racial Justice group, and featured several guest speakers, including Kentucky Alliance’s Shameka Parrish-Wright, state representative Charles Booker, and Sadiqa Reynolds with the Louisville Urban League among others.

The group marched together for about three miles to Jefferson Square Park, some with signs featuring Black Lives Matter and Justice for Breonna.

People taking part in Saturday’s march hoped the event sends a powerful, peaceful message showing the large support within the city.

 

[surface]

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

Rietrot made huge effort to be born in a non-black family - you have no idea what he did. Don't trivialize him.

 

[noxibox]

The police lying about what happened, nothing new there. I'd have been surprised if they had told the truth. Same goes for the prosecution.

I'm not really surprised the no knock warrant was issued based on perjury and false statements. I'd be more surprised to find that lying to get a drug raid warrant wasn't common. These cops are generally taught and believe that anything goes in the war on drugs. They're typically given free reign to do whatever they like.

 

[surface]

Congratulations you ass, you and TR just twisted race into it again.

Sic it to the white dude. Pro game level race flaming achieved!

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hey Suleiman, haven't heard from you for a while. All good I see.

 

[TysonRoux]

Nothing to hide .......


New motion filed to silence Breonna Taylor grand juror, attorney files response Sunday

New motion filed to silence Breonna Taylor grand juror, attorney files response Sunday

The anonymous grand juror’s attorney Kevin Glogower has filed a response to a motion stopping them from speaking publicly on the Breonna Taylor case.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The anonymous grand juror’s attorney Kevin Glogower has filed a response to a motion by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to stop them from speaking publicly on the Breonna Taylor case.

The motion from Cameron’s office said the juror is asking the court to invalidate centuries of customs and traditions. It continues that if the court is inclined to grant the plaintiff’s request, the commonwealth wants the court to stop its order until there’s an appeal or another form of release.

It also alleges that allowing the juror to speak would harm the commonwealth, and break status quo and tradition.
Arguments from Glogower and the commonwealth’s side were presented in court Thursday.

Glogower said that secrecy was lost when recordings were released and Cameron made public remarks or appeared in television interviews, Glogower added there’s nothing to hide since the recordings and PIU files have already been released.

“If you don’t adequately explain the law, you don’t answer their questions,” Glowgower said. “If you don’t go down the path they’re leading you to then you’re not upholding your duty.”

Breonna Taylor grand juror responds to Kentucky AG's request to prevent juror from publicly speaking until after state appeal | CNN

The attorney for an anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case filed a reply Sunday to the Kentucky attorney general's request for a stay of any court order allowing the juror to speak out publicly until after a potential state appeal.

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The attorney for an anonymous grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case filed a reply Sunday to the Kentucky attorney general's request for a stay of any court order allowing the juror to speak out publicly until after a potential state appeal.
The anonymous juror wants to publicly discuss their service on the Taylor case. Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Annie O'Connell has yet to rule on the request after hearing arguments last week.

 

[TysonRoux]

‘My best friend’: Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend recalls deadly night
Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend said the two had been watching a movie in bed when police raided her US apartment and shot her.

‘My best friend’: Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend recalls deadly night

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend said the two were watching a movie in bed when police raided her US apartment and shot her.

www.aljazeera.com

14 Oct 2020

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker said they had been watching a movie in bed when police fatally shot her during a botched drug raid at Taylor’s apartment on March 13.

“To the world, she’s just a hashtag, a picture,” he told CBS in an interview broadcast in the United States on Wednesday.


“But to me, it was much more, more than a girlfriend too. I think that’s what I want the world to know the most. That was my best friend … The most important person pretty much to me on Earth. And they took her.”

No drugs were found in Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. The officers said that they had been investigating Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, who did not live at her address. They entered the apartment using a no-knock warrant.

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However, Walker believes that if he had been killed alongside Taylor that night, the public would “definitely not” be hearing her story.

“You probably wouldn’t even know about it,” he said. “If I didn’t live, you probably wouldn’t even know about Breonna Taylor.”

 

[TysonRoux]

Kentucky attorney general asks for evidence in Breonna Taylor case to remain sealed

Kentucky attorney general asks for evidence in Breonna Taylor case to remain sealed

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) has asked a judge to reverse a previous order to release to the public evidence in the killing of Breonna Taylor, according to ABC News.In a joint motio…

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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) has asked a judge to reverse a previous order to release to the public evidence in the killing of Breonna Taylor, according to ABC News.

In a joint motion filed together with former Louisville Police Officer Brett Hankison’s attorney William Stewart Mathews, Cameron asked Circuit Judge Ann Bailey Smith’s previous decision to allow evidence to be released to be revoked or for the evidence to be sealed until the trial, ABC reported. Hankison was the only officer fired and charged in connection to the botched drug raid that resulted in Taylor's death.

In her ruling, the judge had ordered for names to be redacted, but the attorney general argued that the order would still endanger those involved in the trial. In their motion Cameroon and Mathews also argued that releasing the files could “permanently taint potential jurors.”

"The parties submit that filing discovery in the record would allow said materials, many of which may never be admitted as evidence in court, to be published by the media, and permanently taint potential jurors for trial of this matter. Redaction of personal identifiers does not remedy the problem," ABC reported the motion read.

Cameron and Mathews also cited the “unprecedented” media attention on the trial as further reason to keep the evidence private, according to ABC.

 

[rustypup]

Finally figured out why this headline bugs me...

Why should the profession matter? "Person killed by cops". Done. Dusted. Why try and elicit further feels by adding in the superfluous profession?

This is bias. Plain and simple. Reason 8,652,594 I detest modern media.....

 

[The Voice]

Finally figured out why this headline bugs me...

Why should the profession matter? "Person killed by cops". Done. Dusted. Why try and elicit further feels by adding in the superfluous profession?

This is bias. Plain and simple. Reason 8,652,594 I detest modern media.....

It's 2020. I'm honestly surprised that the headline didn't state that she was black and the cops were white.

 

[ForceFate]

Cameron and Mathews also cited the “unprecedented” media attention on the trial as further reason to keep the evidence private, according to ABC.

What? I can cite several cases where media was this interested in a case. Unprecedented in Kentucky perhaps?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

What? I can cite several cases where media was this interested in a case. Unprecedented in Kentucky perhaps?

It's also BS. Prosecutors normally crow about all the evidence they have. Now suddenly they want it to remain sealed. Ludicrous.

 

[ForceFate]

It's also BS. Prosecutors normally crow about all the evidence they have. Now suddenly they want it to remain sealed. Ludicrous.

AG Daniel Cameron is covering his own lies. He made 2 or more dubious claims in his public address about the case.

 

[konfab]

It's also BS. Prosecutors normally crow about all the evidence they have. Now suddenly they want it to remain sealed. Ludicrous.

If you really wanted the smoking gun, it is the fact that they got a $12 million settlement. That stops the civil case from happening and keeps the case completely under the control of the government.
Usually wrongful death settlements are about 2 million.

This is a really fair analysis of the situation.

 

[Cray]

If you really wanted the smoking gun, it is the fact that they got a $12 million settlement. That stops the civil case from happening and keeps the case completely under the control of the government.
Usually wrongful death settlements are about 2 million.

This is a really fair analysis of the situation.

Good video.

 

[TysonRoux]

Grand Jury For Breonna Taylor Never Presented With Homicide Charges, Juror Says
The anonymous juror said the panel asked about additional charges but was told there wouldn’t be any “because the prosecutors didn’t feel they could make them stick.”

Grand Jury For Breonna Taylor Never Presented With Homicide Charges, Juror Says

The anonymous juror said the panel asked about additional charges but was told there wouldn’t be any “because the prosecutors didn’t feel they could make them stick.”

www.huffpost.com

A juror in the Breonna Taylor case said Tuesday that prosecutors never presented the grand jury with homicide charges against the three police officers involved in Taylor’s killing.

The new allegations raise additional questions over how prosecutors handled the killing of Taylor, a Black woman shot by police in her own apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this year during a “no-knock” raid. Only one detective, Brett Hankison, was ultimately charged in connection with the incident, and it wasn’t even for her death; he was indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for shots fired into a neighboring apartment.

“The grand jury was not presented any charges other than the three Wanton Endangerment charges against Detective Hankison,” the anonymous grand juror said in a statement via attorney Kevin Glogower. “The grand jury did not have homicide offenses explained to them. The grand jury never heard anything about those laws.”

 

[TysonRoux]

Officer in raid says Breonna Taylor ‘didn’t deserve to die’
Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly expressed sympathy for the relatives of Taylor, whose death has sparked outrage across the United States.

Officer in raid says Breonna Taylor ‘didn’t deserve to die’

Jonathan Mattingly expresses sympathy for the relatives of Taylor, whose death has sparked outrage across the US.

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In his first public comments since Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville police seven months ago, one of the officers involved said he would have conducted the raid differently and said the incident would be with him for the rest of his life.


In an interview with ABC News and the Courier Journal newspaper, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly expressed sympathy for the relatives of Taylor, whose death has been one focus of nationwide protests against police brutality and racism this year.

“I feel for her. I hurt for her mother and for her sisters,” Mattingly, a two-decade veteran of the Louisville Metro Police Department, said in the interview.


“It’s not just a passing, ‘Oh, this is part of the job, we did it and move on.’ It’s not like that. I mean, Breonna Taylor is now attached to me for the rest of my life. And that’s not again, ‘Woe is me.’ That’s me feeling for them.”

 

[TysonRoux]

2nd Breonna Taylor Grand Juror Criticizes Proceedings
An anonymous statement released Thursday griped that jurors were only able to consider endangerment charges against one officer for shooting into Taylor’s neighbor’s apartment.

2nd Breonna Taylor Grand Juror Criticizes Proceedings

An anonymous statement released Thursday griped that jurors were only able to consider endangerment charges against one officer for shooting into Taylor's neighbor's apartment.

www.huffpost.com

A second person who served on the Breonna Taylor grand jury is criticizing Kentucky’s attorney general for the way the proceedings were conducted.

The anonymous statement released Thursday reiterated another grand juror’s earlier publicized complaint that the panel was only able to consider endangerment charges against one officer for shooting into Taylor’s neighbor’s apartment.

The first grand juror, who has also remained anonymous, won a court fight this week to address the public about the secret proceedings.

In Thursday’s statement, released by Louisville attorney Kevin Glogower, the second grand juror said they agree “wholeheartedly with the statement released by anonymous grand juror #1.”

The first grand juror said they wanted to consider other charges against the officers, but were told “there would be none because the prosecutors didn’t feel they could make them stick.”

The jurors’ statements contradict Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s assertion that the grand jury “agreed” the officers who shot Taylor were justified in returning fire after they were shot at by Taylor’s boyfriend. The first grand juror said the panel “didn’t agree that certain actions were justified.”

 

[TysonRoux]

If the cop is not a murder suspect then he should not be fired, maybe suspended while the case is being investigated, ....firing him just generates more suspicion of wrong doing and a cover up attempt.

If he is a murder suspect, why wasn't he arrested?

Police officer who fatally shot a Black man in Illinois has been fired, authorities say


A police officer who fatally shot a Black man in a Chicago suburb this week has been fired, authorities said Friday.
The officer had fired into a vehicle that authorities say was reversing as he approached on late Tuesday in Waukegan, killing the passenger and leaving the driver, a Black woman, hospitalized, police said.

"The City of Waukegan terminated the officer that discharged his firearm during that incident, for multiple policy and procedure violations [murder]," Waukegan Police Chief Wayne Walles said Friday in a news release, without detailing those violations or naming the officer.

Tensions between the community and police have been high since the shooting. The death of another Black person at the hands of police was the latest to prompt outrage following months of protests over racial injustice and police brutality, most recently ignited by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.