Former Louisville police officer Brett
Hankison charged with wanton endangerment
in Breonna Taylor case
NBC News,
by
Minyvonne Burke
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/23/2020 2:47:37 PM
One of the police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville home has been charged with first-degree wanton endangerment, a judge announced Wednesday.
Judge Annie O’Connell announced the charges against former Louisville police Sgt. Brett Hankison, who was fired in June, during a grand jury proceeding. A warrant will be issued for his arrest, O'Connell said.
The charges that were filed accuse Hankison of firing blindly into several apartments and recklessly endangering Taylor’s neighbors, but do not charge him with firing at or killing Taylor. Taylor's family had called for nothing less than manslaughter charges.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/23/2020 2:49:45 PM (No. 550030)
FTA:
"Our investigation found that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker," Cameron said.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 9/23/2020 3:00:45 PM (No. 550046)
If you foolishly think that NBC filed an unbiased report, here is the closing statement:
"The deaths sparked national protests that shined a harsh light on the nation's long history of systemic racism, police brutality and the extrajudicial killings of Black Americans."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/23/2020 3:19:20 PM (No. 550072)
Re #2, many (most?) of our posts come from MSM. It is unrealistic to ever expect them to be completelely unbiased. I was interested in the Grand Jury’s determinatioin/charges.
If we post from only online conservative blogs, we will be in an echo chamber. By now we should be able to discern propaganda and bias and employ our own filters.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
gramma b 9/23/2020 3:23:21 PM (No. 550080)
This sounds like the right result. There was no charge for the shooting of Breonna Taylor. And this comes from a grand jury -- probably interracial.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/23/2020 3:27:48 PM (No. 550089)
Keep in mind that the police are under intense pressure to shut off the flow of fentanyl, heroin, meth, and breanna's boyfriend #1 was, with six others, a major drug dealer in Louisville And even though Breanna was supposedly no longer seeing him, police surveillance showed him visiting her apartment 44 times in recent weeks prior to the warrant being issued.
also keep in mind that when the event took place, it was reported that the police broke into the wrong residence. That was a lie.
Breanna had an excellent cover which probably lasted for a while. She was a medic/er technician. Her side hustle was, obviously, drug dealing and drug money management.
there were lots of jail phone recordings to prove that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
John C 9/23/2020 3:30:03 PM (No. 550092)
Just heard from Rush that a passer-by spotted a trailer loaded with riot gear, face masks and signs being dropped off for the BLM and Antifs crowd.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 9/23/2020 3:38:51 PM (No. 550099)
No-knock warrants are debatable, but how is Breonna's death "racist"?? There is no evidence I've seen that she was somehow target for being bLACK.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
davew 9/23/2020 3:46:19 PM (No. 550110)
The circumstances of the incident and all relevant evidence were presented to the grand jury but can't be released to the public by law. This protects the rights of the accused unless an indictment is publicly issued. One detail from the KY AG was that testimony was given by an upstairs neighbor that corroborated the police officers story that they did knock and announce before breaking in the door. Also, the officer that was charged with reckless endangerment was not responsible for the round that killed Taylor. He apparently fired 3 rounds indiscriminately into the wall of an adjacent apartment without hitting anyone. This is the basis for the 3 counts, one for each round.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 9/23/2020 4:40:23 PM (No. 550166)
Let the riots begin...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
valinva 9/23/2020 4:55:02 PM (No. 550187)
"Taylor, 26, an emergency medical technician, was shot and killed in her home on March 13, after police officers with a no-knock warrant broke down her door seeking evidence in a narcotics investigation". Further down in the article: "Cameron said that his investigation shows that officers knocked and announced themselves as police before entering Taylor's apartment. He said this was corroborated by a civilian witness who was near Taylor’s apartment on the night of the shooting.
Other witnesses have said they did not hear police announce their presence.
“In other words, the warrant was not served as a no-knock warrant," the attorney general said." So if it was not executed as a no-knock, why do they even mention that. Maybe because they have a bias against the police. Ya think?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/23/2020 5:45:16 PM (No. 550252)
Happy to see that the Grand Jury actually looked at the facts and did not feel public pressure to press charges where non were warranted. The press conference announcing the results was presented very fairly and without prejudice, only the facts. I cannot say the same for NBC reporter Minyvonne Burke whose last sentence in her article showed her bias against the police and continued spread of untrue lies about police murdering of "Black Americans" and "long history of systematic racism". Just report the facts, not your opinion Ms. Burke.
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