Justice For Breonna Taylor
Isn’t Indicting Police Officers
For Acting In Self-Defense
The Federalist,
by
Kelsey Bolar
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
9/27/2020 4:37:30 AM
After Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that a grand jury declined to file charges against the police officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor, civil unrest broke out in the streets. Two police officers were shot and miraculously survived.
Many felt that the single indictment of Detective Brett Hankison — which was based on charges related to endangering Taylor’s neighbors, not charges linked to Taylor’s death — fell short of justice.
“NOTHING for the murder of Breonna Taylor,” Ben Crump, attorney for the Taylor family, said shortly after Cameron’s announcement. “
Reply 1 - Posted by:
joew9 9/27/2020 4:54:57 AM (No. 553871)
Walker started firing at the police. A felony. He unlawfully possessed a gun. A felony.
During the commission of a crime if someone dies it's your fault.
Walker should be charged with Breonna's murder.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 9/27/2020 5:17:33 AM (No. 553873)
The no-knock warrant contention by BLM and other members of the mob in the Taylor case is deliberately misleading. Although the police had a no-knock warrant, they clearly announced their presence at the Taylor residence according to witness accounts. Police fired in self defense. Shaq and Charles Barkley were attacked by the mob for stating that the boyfriend shot a policeman. Leftists have a cognitive disorder. They cannot process irrefutable facts that run contrary to their agenda. Liberalism is a mental disorder illness.
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Hanging around with known felons and drug dealers isn’t a good life choice. It drastically reduces your life expectancy...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dolphin 9/27/2020 7:20:16 AM (No. 553919)
Was Taylor really an EMT? A Louisville doctor I know says Taylor was no longer working as one. He told me why, but I'd love to see some reporting on it.
Why was there a warrant that would be served in the middle of the night? Did all that happen because of a simple possession charge? Trafficking? Something worse?
Let's have a little context, please. I really expect better reporting from the Federalist.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/27/2020 7:39:00 AM (No. 553937)
Breonna Taylor was another victim of the destructive, fifty-year-old "War On Drugs."
The government sent armed officers to break into a private apartment - - just because the occupiers may have been using or storing narcotic drugs. (They weren't.) The "War On Drugs" is - - and has been - - the greatest violation of our God-given civil rights in this blessed nation's history.
All of you Prohibitionists out there - - how do you feel about another of the many thousands of innocents being killed because of this unlawful, spectacularly failed "war"?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MMC 9/27/2020 8:03:07 AM (No. 553963)
Breonna had not 1 , but 2 boyfriends with felony convictions-
While she may not have been a participant in drug lifestyle- she was well aware of the men’s background she dated. I feel bad for her family and los if a sister,daughter, friend...
But, making Breonna the standards bearer of police action is not a winning fight.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Namma 9/27/2020 8:51:48 AM (No. 554012)
IF walker and who ever else in that apartment we’re not using, selling, or storing drugs then why would walker, a felon, open fire in the cops. All he had to did was answer the door. Let the war rent be served. If no drugs found the police leave. The second walker shot at the police the whole situation changed.
Everyone has the right to defend themselves. Including the police
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/27/2020 9:04:08 AM (No. 554025)
Breonna is just another body on the George Floyd bandwagon. I hope it makes a trip down the street at Mardi Gras with Treyvon right up front as the first martyr.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 9/27/2020 9:10:03 AM (No. 554040)
Breonna had a new boyfriend who had no criminal record, and had a legal firearm. The police were issued a no knock warrant, but they knocked anyway at 3am. The warrant was for Breonna Taylor, a known drug dealer. So at 3am, the police knock, wake up the sleeping pair. The boyfriend thinking it was the drug dealer boyfriend coming to cause harm, grabs his legal firearm. The police by this time have knocked down the door, and the boyfriend does what any person would do if someone was entering their home fires his weapon at a the people coming through the door. The police fire back hitting Taylor. Taylor was killed by an officer defending himself, from someone firing a weapon at him in the dark. The boyfriend should not be charged because he was exercising his right to protect his home using a legal firearm. The police shouldn't be charged, because they were entering a home of a known drug dealer with a warrant and were fired upon. This is not a case about race. The grand jury and AG were correct in their judgement of the facts surrounding the case.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/27/2020 9:14:26 AM (No. 554046)
I tend to agree with you, #5, not because I like drugs but because I see the enormous spoils collected from drug dealers by the police in terms of cash, weapons, jewelry, expensive cars, etc. Most of these confiscations can not be returned to owners and are thus kept by the police and converted to cash. Cash is then very easy to convert to personal use. Not all police are dishonest of course but when you are holding a recovered bag in your hand that contains what you make in a year, it's tempting.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/27/2020 9:31:16 AM (No. 554063)
A man is being charged for his judgment in how he chose to return fire when a drug dealer was shooting at him, trying to murder him. I wonder how sound the prosecution’s legal judgement would be if they had to make their decisions in a fraction of a second while someone is trying to kill them and bullets are flying. How can we find out?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
marbles 9/27/2020 9:56:25 AM (No. 554093)
The democrats and the MOB ( one in the same ) never let fact and truth get in the way of agenda.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gop_guys 9/27/2020 9:57:29 AM (No. 554094)
Sad that she was accidentally killed. Truth is, her company was rather sordid. Play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MA Radical 9/27/2020 10:02:47 AM (No. 554103)
I believe the cops fired 30 or more rounds, hitting Taylor several times but NOT the boyfriend. Seems to me he used her as a shield. He's a liar and a coward.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MA Radical 9/27/2020 10:12:05 AM (No. 554111)
Also, the shooting was in the downstairs hallway, not the bedroom as the LSM has been reporting. It's unlikely there was any confusion who was at the door.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 9/27/2020 11:09:30 AM (No. 554202)
She chose a boyfriend who had some sort of drug dealing connections, and had a previous boyfriend who apparently was a drug dealer. There was wiretap evidence that she may have been involved in moving or storing drugs for drug dealers. THIS gets you a search warrant from the police.
Then, when the police knock, identify themselves, enter and announce that they are the police (verified by a neighbor), the boyfriend opens fire on the police, hitting one of them. He knew he was shooting at police.
At that point.....is there anyone who imagines that this isn't about to be a serious gunfight in a tight space? The police were shot at and one officer was hit. They WILL be firing back. That Taylor didn't hit the floor and try to crawl under the bed at that point is another of her serial extremely bad choices of action. If she had rolled out of bed, hit the floor and maybe scooted under the bed and stayed there, odds are good that she would have survived this shootout.
Not easy to work up much sympathy for folks who pal around with criminals and eventually get caught up in somebody else's gunfight. Life is all about choices. She made a LOT of bad choices.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
columba 9/27/2020 12:01:04 PM (No. 554305)
Justice for the lady would first be one to pray for the repose of her soul.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/27/2020 12:14:54 PM (No. 554320)
This is all ridiculous. The house was CLEARLY a drug transfer point and her boyfriend was a drug dealer. Taylor MUST have known this yet allowed these things to happen in her house. When you allow criminal activities, you run the risk of being held accountable for them.
No knock warrants are a useful tool in dealing with drug trafficking however, this was NOT a no knock warrant. The drug dealing boyfriend claims he didn't hear the police. Yeah, sure. He then SHOT at the police which resulted in return fire and Taylor's death. The cause of this was selling drugs and association with drug dealers.
It's time we stopped protecting drug dealers and their associates and worry more about their victims.
The only thing reasonable in this article is the use of body cams in such raids. Most of the time they show that the people the cops go after are slime that are responsible for what happens to themselves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
watashiyo 9/27/2020 9:08:26 PM (No. 554814)
More Fake News.
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Apparently, $12million wasn't enough. Looking for more.
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