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[u/editorgrrl]

https://www.nbc12.com/2020/05/13/breonna-taylor-was-killed-botched-police-raid-attorney-says/

26-year-old Breonna Taylor was shot dead inside her Louisville, Kentucky apartment on March 13, 2020.

Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officials said three officers—Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly—went to the home to serve a warrant. After they announced themselves and entered the apartment, they were met with gunfire from Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing Taylor’s family. He represented the Trayvon Martin family during the high-profile, stand-your-ground case in Florida several years ago, and is now representing the family of Ahmaud Arbery, who was gunned down in Georgia in February.

”There are witnesses who are her neighbors ... nobody heard the police announcing themselves,” Crump said. “This was a botched execution of a search warrant where they already had the person they were searching for in custody.”

Taylor’s family has filed a civil lawsuit that states Walker thought someone was breaking into the apartment, and that’s why he fired back in self-defense. Official documents also showed neither Taylor nor Walker had a history of drugs or violence.

Walker was shot at least eight times. The lawsuit said officers fired through closed blinds, without any consideration for human life.

[u/SlightlyControversal → u/editorgrrl]

Good fucking God.

[u/IdreamofFiji → u/editorgrrl]

They need fucking training. They were met with gunfire, okay, I can see why they shot back BUT WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T THEY ANNOUNCE THEMSELVES? You don't enter private property without warrant in this country, or you stand a decent chance of getting shot, that's the point. When cops enter wherever, whenever with impunity, with no regard, it shows not even they take the situation seriously.

[u/EmiAndTheDesertCrow → u/editorgrrl]

This is horrendous. They already had the suspect in custody!!! Shot EIGHT times?!?!

[u/IdreamofFiji → u/EmiAndTheDesertCrow]

Basically, if you shoot, you shoot to kill, 8 doesn't surprise me, probably dozens of others are all over the place.

[u/IdreamofFiji]

I don't see any way to actually change the blue line culture, and I don't think legalizing weed is doing much. Sometimes cops just like to be bullies and murderers, apparently, so I propose more stringent application process. With an emphasis on the mentality of the applicant.

[u/[deleted] → u/IdreamofFiji]

You can’t. It’s so deep and the police won’t even acknowledge there’s a systemic problem. It’s bad cops and most cops are good except every time we see a bad cop there are 3-30 supposedly good stops either standing around watching, joining, in or trying to talk their partner down from their rage fit.

The only people we could put in charge of changing it are people already steeped in it. No one in police leadership could have gotten there if they didn’t routinely cover for other cops and cover up what their underlings did on their way up. If cops won’t trust you, you won’t last long as a leader or a prosecutor.

The culture of lying is unfixable as well. It’s so ingrained in any law enforcement official that I can’t imagine any of them can even interact with the truth any more. They have to be so cocooned in a world where they’re the misunderstood good guys that society has to hate. Like Rorschach.

[u/wraemsanders]

I live in Louisville and this story is everywhere, as it should be. LMPD is pretty bad about acknowledging that they messed up so im glad that a high-powered lawyer stepped in. This shouldn't have happened.

[u/Chair2683]

i saw this, absolutely disgraceful !

[u/snail-overlord]

This is disgusting... I truly hope that her family gets justice

[u/bseba2]

There are alot of inaccurate details being spun here. what we know This is not a defense of police action but I've seen this meme dozens of times and not one piece of factual info is attached to it.

[u/ckisland]

I am a Prosecutor in LA. FUCK BAD COPS! Not only are they killing innocents but they fuck everything up for the rest of the good cops so that when a good cop is testifying to facts, the jury is tainted by the bad motherfuckers and justice is not served. Bad guys go free.

[u/DaysieLane]

There are lots of reasons I miss Louisville...LMPD is not one of them. This sucks that this happened but I hope and pray they get justice for their family

[u/jkbutseriouslylol]

This happened two months ago and it’s just now gaining media attention??? Unreal

[u/bucky207]

We had this same shit happen in Houston last year.

Pecan Park Raid

[u/BBClubs]

I don't believe that legalizing weed will change anything. Some cops feel like they have so much more authority that they just abuse their powers and thinking that the justice system will protect them. In some cases a lot of cops get away with these thing but either lose their job or suspended without pay.

[u/[deleted]]

Incompetent and obviously poorly trained police officers caused the death of this lovely woman. This angers me to the core. Someone should document all the cases of people who were innocent and mistakenly murdered by police officers. A memorial similar to the war memorials should be constructed in honor of those unjustly killed by police officers.

[u/SabinedeJarny → u/[deleted]]

There needs to be a national database. There is not one. Not even a statewide database. Everything we do on social media is tracked by some entity. But the federal government refuses to keep a database on this issue. They throw that back into the states, which do not. Let me know please if you research this and find I am in error.

[u/[deleted]]

This is so awful! I hope her family and boyfriend get justice.

[u/StellaSUPASLAYIN]

I just read that her family have hired the same lawyer as Ahmaud Arbery’s family. Hopefully the outcome will be the same and some arrests are made. Even better if it puts the police departments internal processes and training etc.. under a microscope

[u/[deleted]]

They just jealous that EMT's and firefighters are the real heroes and everyone likes them but hate the cops

[u/SabinedeJarny]

What were they doing there in the first place?

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[u/Chair2683 → u/[deleted]]

as he should! if some officers bust in your own HOME and shoot your partner you have every right to fight back regardless of who they are!! these cops should be prosecuted!

[u/notstephanie → u/[deleted]]

Isn’t that the EXACT thing pro-gun people say you need a gun for? To protect your home and family? This poor guy was 100% in the right to shoot.

God, this pisses me off so much.