Justice for Breonna Taylor

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  1. Moriah

    Moriah Well-Known Member

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    Just saw this in my newsfeed today:
    Four current and former Louisville, KY police officers have been federally charged with civil rights violations, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of course and obstruction in relation to the deadly raid on the home of Breonna Taylor in 2020.
    Detective Joshua Haynes, Detective Kelly Goodlett and Sgt. Kyle Meany are accused of submitting a false affidavit to search Breonna Taylor's home, and conspiring to cover up their actions afterward by creating more false information.
    Ex-detective Brett Hankerson also faces charges.
    Breonna Taylor, a 26 year old emergency room tech, was shot and killed in her apartment during a flawed forced entry raid in March 2020.

    My comment: I am so happy to see justice finally served on these crooked cops. I know Breonna's family is happy to see it too. Shout out to DOJ head Merrick Garland for staying on top of this case.
     
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    Golly.. where to start.

    Merrick Garland overreaching isn't a new phenomenon. Nor is using his office to attack political opponents.

    What does Justice for Brianna look like? And why, for example, does only Brianna deserve this justice? And why, for example, hasn't Merrick worried about ANY of the other 82+ murders that have occurred in Louisville so far this year, or those who have attacked or otherwise attempted harm to the other good citizens of Louisville?

    Federal charges are amazingly expensive to defend oneself from. Given that these folks, all, have faced legal challenges locally, from both the City of Louisville, and the State of KY, why do we suddenly suppose that federal intervention is required here? I mean, so far, I haven't seen ANY response from Merrick et al in attempting to bring justice for the unarmed USAF vet murdered at the Capitol.

    Literally, Merrick is demonstrating just how uber partisan he is, how he abuses his authority and power to attack those he knows can't possibly defend themselves from his abuse. He's a bully.

    Certainly, the family of ms Taylor has appeared in lots of interviews, crying the crocodilian tears of families with criminals that law enforcement engaged in the line of duty.

    And let's not be quick to not also direct ire at the Mayors office. Why did the Mayor, at the time, put so much pressure on his police officers that they felt compelled to issue and execute this warrant? There are a LOT of questions there, none of which seem to have interested mr Garland. why? Democratic mayor. Shocking, huh...

    It just goes to the idea that if you know your BF is running drugs out of your apartment, perhaps you should have let that happen.
     
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    Yes, some good news for the Taylor family.

    The heartbreaking part is each time this happens, cops go out to deliberately target minorities as "payback" for justice being served for people they don't care about. I still have PTSD from some of the things I witnessed the year Dr. King's birthday was made a holiday.

    But, all is not lost. There is always hope in the young lives we bring into the world and teach them that hate doesn't solve anything and every person is our teacher in that we may learn from them, even when it's a lesson in "How NOT to be".

    Keep Shining! You're a bright spot here, Moriah.
     
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    If the killers do not spend the rest of their lives nailed to crosses and screaming, they got off lightly.
     
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    To be fair, the indictments are primarily with regard to a few detectives that intentionally falsified an affidavit to get the warrant. One of the charges is related to the cop that shot indiscriminately and managed to put at least one round into a neighboring apartment.

    Under no circumstances should cops go unpunished for faking information to get a warrant. That's a direct Constitutional violation and can't be allowed to happen.

    The cops that executed the warrant, got shot at and returned fire ARE NOT the ones being charged here. The headlines certainly aren't going to make that clear because the media focus is propaganda. Just be careful not to get sucked into the broadcast, cable and social media commentary about this prosecution.
     
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    Although you do seem exactly like the type of person who would get "PTSD" from watching something on television, I'm curious about this payback thing. There have been lots of ACAB threads on this forum but I don't recall the payback against minorities thing. Tell me more.
     
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    Thank you, MJ Davies. You are very kind.
     
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    No. It goes to the idea to make sure you have a VALID warrant before you ram somebody's door down and then start shooting, without even knowing who is in the apartment.
    The police were WRONG in this case from start to finish. This case illustrates why no knock warrants should be illegal.
     
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    If you've never worked for the police dept like MJ Davies has, then you wouldn't know.
     
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    There are quite a few "armchair experts" around. ;-)
     
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    Re:
    How did you get PTSD when King's birthday was made a holiday and how does it manifest itself?

    Thanks,
     
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    Yes, I'm aware. The real issue is that Garland has decided that this case, and not say the Carter Page case, needs this level of very public prosecution. I'm sure you can see why this looks and smells bad. Not that ms Taylor shouldn't be ignored. The obvious here is that all of these folks who were indicted were in fact already investigated, etc. Only after those proceedings failed to convict cops did Garland choose to initiate his own purge. It does look pretty one sided. It demonstrates that mr Garland isn't actually interested in crime, just optics. The federal crimes here are pretty sketchy. Since none of the indictments refer to an actual federal investigation, it seems unlikely that the federal interest suddenly involves hand checking what a state or city have done. I would remind that KY's democratic governor was also very keen to get convictions here. As was the democratic mayor of Louisville. As I mentioned on another thread, this sure smacks of double jeopardy. As there are no direct inferences that link any of the criminal wrong doing asserted with any federal process. It's as if Garland simply waive his magic jurisdiction wand here.

    So at least be honest enough to agree that what mr Garland is doing here is creating a show trial. Why? That seems to be the essential question. Louisville didn't erupt in violence when these folks were acquitted, and yet he seems determined to reunite the violence of the summer of love. That seems pretty problematic for the guy who promised the Senate that he was working to "calm" the nation. He certainly seems willing to push his jack booted thugs out against the nation as if he's the little tyrant king of law enforcement.
     
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    This is such BS. No, cops do not go out and target minorities as you've asserted. This is shameful and disgusting as a post might be. Get a grip.
     
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    The democrat who runs Louisville disagrees with you and was the impetus for this raid in particular. You might be angry at the mayor then.

    Would you have been more happy had the CNN folks tagged along to document the raid?
     
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    Garland is a Democrat. You can't really expect him to look at federal crimes committed by federal agents when those crimes benefited Democrats.Democrats just don't work that way! Besides, Democrats need something to run on this year that's more than "We aren't Trump!" and racism has been a winner for them this past 50 years or so.
     
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    to really honor her, we need to ban late-night no knock raids with a Breonna Taylor Bill - they are risky to both citizens and police
     
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    I agree. Accused criminals have rights too. Cops should be required to provide ample advance notice of a search warrant so that suspects can verify the true identity of the searchers, request background checks on anyone that might enter their home and have advance notice of what, specifically, will be searched for. This process should be allowed at least 60 days to be properly completed.
     
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    That's why I'm asking.
     

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