The Breonna Taylor Murder (1 Viewer)

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Couldn't disagree more with this DoJ assessment:

Everything that came after them obtaining that FRAUDULENT search warrant was an illegal action. FULL STOP! His comrades in blue made him an accessory to multiple crimes and the DoJ gave him a pass.


Edit: The more I think about it, everyone that gave the other officers a pass has just legalized the "I was just following orders" defense!!!

But, that's not what he is saying. He is not saying that it wasn't an illegal action. He is saying that you can't fault the officers who executed the search warrant if they had no way of knowing the warrant was obtained illegally. I agree with that particular assessment.

And, I disagree with the part about the "I was just following orders" defense. That's a legit defense if you are following orders that you have every reason to believe were valid orders. It becomes a faulty defense when you are following orders that you know (or have reason to believe) are not legal/valid orders.

 

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Breonna Taylor’s mother endorsed a grassroots campaign Monday aimed at defeating Republican Daniel Cameron's bid for Kentucky governor, reviving anger over a criminal investigation he led that yielded no charges against any officers for the fatal shooting of the Black woman during a police raid.

Tamika Palmer plunged into the political fray on what would have been her daughter's 30th birthday. Breonna Taylors death in 2020 spurred nationwide racial justice protests alongside the killing of George Floyd.

Palmer and other activists announced a campaign to bolster voter registration and turnout against Cameron's bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in November.

Taylor's family and scores of protesters have long blamed Cameron for a lack of criminal charges against the officers for Taylor's death on March 13, 2020. Police opened fire into Taylor’s Louisville apartment after her boyfriend fired a shot at them from a hallway, wounding one of the officers. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, has said he thought he was firing at an intruder.

Kentucky's first Black attorney general, Cameron was thrust into the national spotlight when his office investigated the shooting and actions of officers that day.

Cameron has defended the investigation, saying he “followed the law without fear or favor.” Palmer and other activists said Monday that Cameron's handling of the case shows he's unqualified to be governor.

“He decided that we didn’t matter," Palmer told reporters in a downtown Louisville park that was the epicenter of 2020 protests in Louisville. "He decided that Breonna didn’t deserve justice.”

Lonita Baker, one of the attorneys who represented the Taylor family's lawsuit against the city of Louisville and its police department, said Monday that Cameron’s investigation left her angry..............

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Myles Cosgrove, officer who fired fatal shot that killed Breonna Taylor, in Rambo mode in his new cop job, smashes cars and points his gun at random people | IncarcerNation.com™

Myles Cosgrove, the shooter officer whose bullet killed Breonna Taylor and left the Louisville Metro PD and landed a new job as deputy with Carroll County, just shocked a whole neighborhood when he barreled into a residential trailer park at high speed, rammed the vehicle of a resident with such...

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In early 2022, Louisville community members and police reform activists were facing disappointment as well as despair: none of the officers involved in the lethal 2020 no-knock raid that killed Breonna Taylor were charged in connection with her death.

On top of that, former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer Brett Hankison, the one officer who faced any charges at all, who was accused of wanton endangerment for firing blindly into a neighbouring appartment containing three people, was acquitted in March of 2022.

It seemed like nothing would come of the mass, nationwide protests that followed the deaths of Taylor and George Floyd in 2020.


“We won’t let this go,” one protest organiser, Chris Wells, chanted in Louisville after the verdict came down.

Now, three years after the raid that killed Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency room technician, the current and former LVMPD officers at the heart of the controversial operation are facing a new set of charges. Will the result this time be different?

Jury selection began on Monday in the case against Mr Hankison, a 17-year veteran of the LVMPD who fired 10 rounds through a glass door and window during the raid.

Last year, the Department of Justice charged him with excessive force and violating the civil rights of Taylor, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, and their three neighbours.

Prosecutors said Mr Hankison, who was fired in 2020, continued to discharge his weapon after “there was no longer a lawful objective justifying the use of deadly force.”

The charges could carry a sentence of life in prison.

The former officer has pleaded not guilty.

During the 13 March raid, which was carried out in service of a drug investigation where the main suspect was already under arrest, officers said they knocked on the door of Taylor’s apartment and identified themselves as police.

Residents, including Walker, who fired on officers who broke through the door thinking they were intruders, dispute this characterisation.……

Will the officers who killed Breonna Taylor be held accountable?

No officer has been charged over shooting that killed the Louisville resident. That may change with long-awaited civil rights trial, writes Josh Marcus

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Breonna Taylor’s mother endorsed a grassroots campaign Monday aimed at defeating Republican Daniel Cameron's bid for Kentucky governor, reviving anger over a criminal investigation he led that yielded no charges against any officers for the fatal shooting of the Black woman during a police raid.

Tamika Palmer plunged into the political fray on what would have been her daughter's 30th birthday. Breonna Taylors death in 2020 spurred nationwide racial justice protests alongside the killing of George Floyd.

Palmer and other activists announced a campaign to bolster voter registration and turnout against Cameron's bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in November.

Taylor's family and scores of protesters have long blamed Cameron for a lack of criminal charges against the officers for Taylor's death on March 13, 2020. Police opened fire into Taylor’s Louisville apartment after her boyfriend fired a shot at them from a hallway, wounding one of the officers. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, has said he thought he was firing at an intruder.

Kentucky's first Black attorney general, Cameron was thrust into the national spotlight when his office investigated the shooting and actions of officers that day.

Cameron has defended the investigation, saying he “followed the law without fear or favor.” Palmer and other activists said Monday that Cameron's handling of the case shows he's unqualified to be governor.

“He decided that we didn’t matter," Palmer told reporters in a downtown Louisville park that was the epicenter of 2020 protests in Louisville. "He decided that Breonna didn’t deserve justice.”

Lonita Baker, one of the attorneys who represented the Taylor family's lawsuit against the city of Louisville and its police department, said Monday that Cameron’s investigation left her angry..............

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I'm about 5 months late to this discussion, but if Republicans had a better candidate against incumbent Andy Beshear, one that didnt have the bad, controversial track record and polarizing image from the Breonna Taylor shooting. It's not a slam-dunk, but the overall race would be a lot closer because Kentucky is a very socially conservative state, and while Democrats have continued to have some success at some local, state-level elections, Ky. Dems can't come across as AOC-esque, ultra-liberal unapologetic partisans, and while Beshear has done a decent job working against a GOP supermajority state legislature, if a better, less controversial candidate ran against him, there's a decent chance he'd also lose or it would be a toss-up.