Breonna Taylor: Grand Jury

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you can just be shot in your own home, and only one of your murderers can see any prison time - just 5 years at that. And after they shoot you, they can just leave you on the floor in your own blood to die, even through they’ve pledged to protect your community.

Justice? Really?

Perhaps she tried to make the best of her circumstances, or perhaps she could have avoided trouble by not associating with drug dealers or having a boyfriend who fired his gun at police officers.

The Attorney General of Kentucky, who is Black, defended the grand jury decisions, but that may or may not matter to the mobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you can just be shot in your own home, and only one of your murderers can see any prison time - just 5 years at that. And after they shoot you, they can just leave you on the floor in your own blood to die, even through they’ve pledged to protect your community.

Justice? Really?

Perhaps she tried to make the best of her circumstances, or perhaps she could have avoided trouble by not associating with drug dealers or having a boyfriend who fired his gun at police officers.

The Attorney General of Kentucky, who is Black, defended the grand jury decisions, but that may or may not matter to the mobs.

I always find it odd when anti-BLM folks trot out Black people and say "See! A Black person agrees with me! Therefore all the other Black people must be wrong" #racism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another sad day.
America continues to be broken and soulless.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/us/breonna-taylor-attorney-general-grand-jury-announcement/index.html

Why is sad? You wanted justice, you're getting it. It's just not what the mob wanted.

Did Breonna Taylor get justice?

If this was your child, would you feel this was justice?

Yes, she did. Maybe care more about facts, and less about uninformed feelings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bad actors weren't the individual officers. The grand jury got it right. The bad actors were the prosecutors and detectives who put together the case for the judge to issue the warrant and possibly the judge who issued the warrant based on specious evidence. The apple rots from the inside out. The officers were simply doing their jobs. So while charging them would feel good, it wouldn't get at where the miscarriage of justice was created and the people who truly killed Breonna.

This. Have some courage and go after the legislators, prosecuters, DAs and judges that allow stuff like this to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They knocked and identified themselves
Nobody came to the door,
They were legally allowed to enter
Her boyfriend had a gun
He shot the returned fire
These are all facts. Sad? yes, that a person who was turning her life around was with a person who was not a very good person.

Just because you don't like the outcome you have to accept it that based on the evidence her killing was not intentional.

Her family settled a wrongful death claim. They most likely knew this was coming and they settled less than a week ago.

Who said they knocked and identify themselves? The one witness as a compared to all the other people who said they didn’t hear anything and they had a no knock warrant so if you have a no knock warrant so why in the eff
did they knock and identify themselves?????

[Anonymous]

So you all are so afraid about getting your guns taken but hold it against her boyfriend for having one to defend the hone he was in.
There’s a special place in hell for people like you.

[Anonymous]

From The NY Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor-police-killing.html:

An ambulance on standby outside was told to leave about an hour before the raid, counter to standard practice.
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Among the officers outside her door were men who had been trained by David James, the city council president. During his 19-year career as a police officer, he had instructed recruits at the local training academy about “dynamic entry.” Especially when executing a warrant at night, he said, he told them to yell “police” at the top of their lungs, specifically so that occupants would not mistake them for an intruder.

“So everyone can hear,” he added. “Neighbors. People down the street.”

By nearly all accounts, that did not happen at Apartment 4.

Almost a dozen neighbors interviewed for this article said that they never heard the police calling out, including Clifford Tudor, who had stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. Only one person, a truck driver coming off his shift, said he heard the officers shouting. Aaron Julue Sarpee had left his 2-year-old in the care of the woman living directly above Ms. Taylor. Before the police lined up, he had run upstairs and picked up his sleeping toddler. He had just stepped out onto the exterior staircase when he saw the officers.

Before they ordered him to go back inside, Mr. Sarpee said, he heard at least three loud bangs as they knocked on Ms. Taylor’s door, and heard one or more officers scream “Police!” — a single time. He is emphatic that they said it only once.

[Anonymous]

Woah one of the officers shot off an email to 1000 officers on the PD.

Really despicable. No remorse for killing an innocent woman. Just more “us vs them” Blue Line thuggery.

I’m not here to give you a Rah Rah you got this speech. I’m not here to tell you that you signed up to help this community and to keep your head up. I’m here to tell you I’m sorry you have to go through this. I’m sorry your families have to go through this. I’m sorry the Mayor, Amy Hess and Chief Conrad failed all of us in epic proportions for their own gain and to cover their asses.

You DO NOT DESERVE to be in this position. The position that allows thugs to get in your face and yell, curse and degrade you. Throw bricks, bottles and urine on you and expect you to do nothing. It goes against EVERYTHING we were all taught in the academy. The position that if you make a mistake during one of the most stressful times in your career, the department and FBI (who aren’t cops and would piss their pants if they had to hold the line) go after you for civil rights violations. Your civil rights mean nothing, but the criminal has total autonomy.

We all signed up to be police officers. We knew the risks and were willing to take them, but we always assumed the city had your back. We wanted To do the right thing in the midst of an evil world to protect those who cannot protect themselves. To enforce laws that make it possible to live in a peaceful society. We as police DO NOT CARE if you are black, white, Hispanic, Asian, what you identify as...this week. We aren’t better than anyone. This is not an us against society, but it is good versus evil. We are sons, daughters, husbands, wives, parters, brothers, sisters, dads and moms. We are human beings with flaws, feelings and emotions.

Now I’m just rambling, but I want you to know that I’m still proud to be a cop. To be an LMPD cop. No matter the ineptitude in upper command or the mayors office, this is one of the greatest jobs on earth. With that being said these next few days are going to be tough. They are going to be long, they are going to be frustrating. They will put a tremendous amount of stress on your families. Do not let your ego get you in a trick bag. Have your partners 6. De escalate if possible. DO NOT give the pencil pushers at the top, you know the ones who are too scared to hold the line, a reason to open investigations on you. The same ones that couldn’t make decisions to save their lives. We need leaders that lead from the front and not in a room under a desk. Do what you need to do to go home you your family. Just do it with dignity and make sure you can justify your actions because everything down there is recorded.

I don’t know a lot of you guys/gals but I’ve felt the love. Regardless of the outcome today or Wednesday, I know we did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night. It’s sad how the good guys are demonized, and criminals are canonized. Put that aside for a while, keep your focus and do your jobs that you are trained and capable of doing. Don’t put up with their shit, and go home to those lovely families and relationships.

I wish I were there with you leading the charge. I’ll be praying for your safety. Remember you are just a pawn in the Mayors political game. I’m proof they do not care about you or your family, and you are replaceable. Stay safe and do the right thing. YOU ARE LOVED AND SUPPORTED by most of the community. Now go be the Warriors you are, but please be safe! None of these “peaceful” protesters are worth your career or freedom. God speed boys and girls."

It’s pathetic how an agent of Big Government state violence views himself as the victim.

[Anonymous]

Source:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wave3.com/2020/09/22/jon-mattingly-officer-involved-breonna-taylor-shooting-sends-candid-email-lmpd-colleagues/%3FoutputType%3Damp

[Anonymous]

I have a neighbor who was hit with a no knock warrant on suspicion of her 17 year old son selling weed. Knocked down the door, dragged them out of bed, held them all separately at gunpoint including the 13 year old sister. Turned their house upside down. This is in a very, very nice, expensive suburban DC neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who was hit with a no knock warrant on suspicion of her 17 year old son selling weed. Knocked down the door, dragged them out of bed, held them all separately at gunpoint including the 13 year old sister. Turned their house upside down. This is in a very, very nice, expensive suburban DC neighborhood.

So, then don’t believe the NRA that we need fund to defend ourselves when someone enter our house in the middle of the night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who was hit with a no knock warrant on suspicion of her 17 year old son selling weed. Knocked down the door, dragged them out of bed, held them all separately at gunpoint including the 13 year old sister. Turned their house upside down. This is in a very, very nice, expensive suburban DC neighborhood.

So, then don’t believe the NRA that we need fund to defend ourselves when someone enter our house in the middle of the night.

guns

[Anonymous]

1. Police need to train themselves not to shoot at people. Police in Europe would never act this way.

2. The person whose bullet killed this young woman should be found guilty of murder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who was hit with a no knock warrant on suspicion of her 17 year old son selling weed. Knocked down the door, dragged them out of bed, held them all separately at gunpoint including the 13 year old sister. Turned their house upside down. This is in a very, very nice, expensive suburban DC neighborhood.

That’s so rude and unnecessary. Where the victims white?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who was hit with a no knock warrant on suspicion of her 17 year old son selling weed. Knocked down the door, dragged them out of bed, held them all separately at gunpoint including the 13 year old sister. Turned their house upside down. This is in a very, very nice, expensive suburban DC neighborhood.

That’s so rude and unnecessary. Where the victims white?

Yes. Not trying to take away from Ms. Taylor but this happens a lot more than people know I think.