The Breonna Taylor Murder (1 Viewer)

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DJ1BigTymer said:
His termination shouldn't be the only punishment he should face for filing a false affidavit to obtain a warrant.
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If filing a false affidavit is a felony and someone died during the commission of that felony, it would be fair to nail him for murder, no?
They'd do it to some black kid who robbed a grocery store, even if it was the cops who killed the grocer.
 
I guess with the trial starting they'll be a new thread soon but until then I'll put this here
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MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family just weeks before the trial is scheduled to begin for the former officer charged with murder in his death..............

City of Minneapolis reaches $27M settlement with George Floyd's family (msn.com)
 
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Optimus Prime said:
I guess with the trial starting they'll be a new thread soon but until then I'll put this here
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MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27 million settlement with George Floyd's family just weeks before the trial is scheduled to begin for the former officer charged with murder in his death..............

City of Minneapolis reaches $27M settlement with George Floyd's family (msn.com)
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There has to be a way to make these settlements directly affect the cops.
I get that the idea is for the city managers/mayor to come down and insist on better behavior, but that's not how it plays out in real life.
In real life the mayor says "Hey! You violent, racist jagoffs are costing us a ton of money!" The cops say "Bite me." and nothing changes.
 
Taurus said:
There has to be a way to make these settlements directly affect the cops.
I get that the idea is for the city managers/mayor to come down and insist on better behavior, but that's not how it plays out in real life.
In real life the mayor says "Hey! You violent, racist jagoffs are costing us a ton of money!" The cops say "Bite me." and nothing changes.
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Yeah, the changes we usually see are superficial and not really structural. At least that's how it appears to me.
 
Taurus said:
There has to be a way to make these settlements directly affect the cops.
I get that the idea is for the city managers/mayor to come down and insist on better behavior, but that's not how it plays out in real life.
In real life the mayor says "Hey! You violent, racist jagoffs are costing us a ton of money!" The cops say "Bite me." and nothing changes.
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Just pay the settlements with their pension funds.
 
One of the cops who participated in the no-knock raid that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s death last year just got a book deal.
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three Louisville, Kentucky, police officers who raided Taylor’s apartment in March 2020, is writing a book about the case, titled “The Fight For Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy,” the Courier-Journal reported on Thursday.

Mattingly is the same man who, along with his colleagues, fired more than two dozen bullets into Taylor’s apartment while she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep; the same man who sued Walker, alleging that Walker’s actions caused him “severe trauma, mental anguish and emotional distress” after Walker witnessed his girlfriend bleed to death and then was taken away in handcuffs; the same man who, after Taylor died from at least six bullet wounds, wrote an email saying, “We did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night.”

Who better to tell the inside story of the tragedy than one of its perpetrators?

The book will be published by Tennessee-based Post Hill Press. Post Hill Press did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Simon & Schuster, which had been set to distribute the book, initially declined to comment on the record. But after this article was first published and public backlash swiftly followed, the company said it was backing out of the distribution.....................

One Of The Cops Involved In Breonna Taylor's Death Just Got A Book Deal | HuffPost
 
Two Louisville police officers whose shots struck and killed Breonna Taylor never should have fired their weapons, a department investigator found — a conclusion that the force’s upper brass partly rejected.


Although the officers had a right to protect themselves when Taylor’s boyfriend fired at them, the “circumstances made it unsafe to take a single shot” in response, Sgt. Andrew Meyer wrote in a Dec. 4 memo summarizing his investigation.


Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in darkness at the far end of her apartment’s hallway when the officers broke down the door. Both were wearing all black.

Walker moved quickly to hide from the bullets, while Taylor froze in place.
All of that happened within seconds, Meyer wrote, while the officers “experienced fear, tunnel vision, and adrenaline.”


“This,” Meyer concluded, “is how the wrong person was shot and killed.”.......

He never should have fired back without knowing that his specific target was a threat, Meyer said.
Meyer wrote that Cosgrove and Mattingly should have taken cover, instead of engaging with Walker.

They and Hankison fired a total of 32 shots. In reality, Meyer said, none of the shots were safe.
“The officers could not safely take the shots given these circumstances,” Meyer concluded.

“The officers did not safely take the shots and Ms. Taylor was struck and killed.”......



 

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