Breonna Taylor: Grand Jury
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WaPo has the best, most balanced article I've read on the case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/24/correcting-misinformation-about-breonna-taylor/#comments-wrapper |
Anonymous
Opinion piece... |
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Well, it's the only chance to get something balanced out of a paper where democracy dies in the darkness. |
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There's a difference in not condoning and doing what we can within reason to prevent these incidents, versus arguing that even just one is too much. Do we need to stop all car accidents? Come on. |
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with quite a bit of factual detail and analysis. Did you bother to read it? |
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It’s good. |
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It was a search warrant, not an arrest warrant, no? They were going to go into the house, which is inherently a potentially dangerous situation. That being said, no-knock warrants, or even late-night knock-and-announce warrants, are going to be particularly dangerous, and I don't see how to justify its use in this case. But I really don't see how you could place *criminal* blame on any of these officers for Breonna Taylor's death. That doesn't mean the shooting was justified, or that what happened was in any way OK, but I don't think it would have been right to place criminal blame on these officers for returning fire when conducting what they believed was a valid warrant. |
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So much whitesplainiing, policing of black anger, racism/sexism here, so gross. |
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It will stop when people stop committing violent crimes and not complying with commands of police officers. This is more prevalent in certain demographics, and that is why they are disproportionately involved in police shootings. |
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That's an actual policy position in Washington, DC. Zero accidents. |
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I was in a small southern beach town a few weeks back, lots of Trump, blue lives and even a few confederate flags flying. Long story short, and wish I’d had video, young man in pickup truck gets pulled over, given an excruciatingly long series of sobriety checks, things are going okay, crowd of onlookers, he’s doing a lot of talking. Cuffs come out and full on resisting arrest ensues. I called it about 10 mins before this... commented it’s all fun and games until the cuffs come out. Perp takes a few swings on the cops, tries to get away, gets pummeled, slammed into sidewalks, face first, knee on one kneck. More shouting “I can’t breathe”. “I’m bleeding” yada, yada. But he’s alive. Ambulance pulls up. Kids in car witness it all. They don’t even appear to be crying, maybe this is a routine thing for them, they are little no more than 7-8. No Other parent visible, waiting for social services to show up and cart kids off, but no one shows up, rural Va on a late night holiday weekend. Kids eventually are loaded into the ambulance too and off they go. Perp was white, he resisted, he physically and verbally assaulted the officers, he was still loudly running his mouth and physically resisting, although not as vigorously when the ambulance showed up, he was drunk and driving with 3 young kids in the pickup. He survived to do it all another day. He was white, didn’t seem very bright, didn’t appear to be wealthy, and he resisted and physically assaulted more than one officer. No one shot a video, although plenty of onlookers, 99% white, they seemed legitimately curious about the unfolding, but not shocked more like oh cool, this is good entertainment and it was....minus the kids (that part was Tragic and no doubt part of a never ending chain of dysfunction) It was good entertainment because no one died. The perp was white. Just another Saturday night in rural America. White people commit plenty of crimes, they resist plenty, it’s human nature to resist capture and potential loss of freedom, especially with impaired judgment. I posit that the Phenomenon of resisting arrest is probably more common amongst white men, white privilege and all, entitlement and all that goes along with that. They just know they probably won’t end of dead as a result. Is this another anecdote? Yes it is, but it is an anecdote that supports the stats, that yes they are arrested, yes they resist but they are just less likely to be killed. The cop got off his neck, before he died and he left in an ambulance, because he was roughed up, he left in an ambulance, alive.... |
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They were looking for evidence. |
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Did you notice in all of that there was no reaching for a gun? Refusing to show his hands? Etc. that’s a big difference. People resist all of the time, you get shot when you have a weapon , no matter the color. |